In the Embrilliance 1.180 update, Merrowly Patches was rebranded to PatchArtist. Yes, it this is a more easily recognizable name for the program – its whole purpose is to make patches! You can read about this rebranding, the new fonts added to the program and the updated and enhanced libraries in the Embrilliance News blog. […]
This month, I was asked to be a “guest contributor” for the Monday Morning Chat in the Beginner Machine Embroidery group on Facebook. One topic I wrote about was on thread weight as it relates to machine embroidery. If you are on Facebook and looking for a supportive, informative, drama-free, embroidery group, I highly recommend […]
I had posted this information as a response to questions in the StitchArtist Digitizing Fans group the other day and thought that it would make a nice blog post. This is about a 7″x7″ patch and its being stitched on a Janome 550e. I’ve stitched patches on all my machines including my 28 year old […]
This embroidery design came about after some social media discussions about someone looking for a similar design. Because of this online discussion, I wanted to see what I could create in Embrilliance StitchArtist. I had created many wreath frame designs over the years, so adding a bow with flowing ribbon was the new fun part […]
As I was thinking about the upcoming fall holidays for 2021, I recall the last in person classes that I taught in Nashville, Chicago, and Atlanta last year. First, I can not believe that an entire year has past! Second, I was thinking about the hands on digitizing class that we did in each location and […]
Today marks my TWO year anniversary from doing the After-hours broadcast on my SewBubbles Facebook page. WOW – that’s a whole lot of chatting about machine embroidery – and I’m not done yet 🙂 Let me say right now – I am not stopping the After-hours show! It has moved to Tuesday nights due to […]