In a previous post about lining up two or more designs in Embrilliance Essentials, I provided a zipped file with the alignment lines in it. This did get me thinking….”wouldn’t it be nice if there was a library available of various types of alignment stitches right in the program?” I happened to mention this to […]
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Embrilliance classes announced
One of my goals for 2017 is to offer machine embroidery education events – in real life. We had our first Embrilliance seminar in Shreveport this weekend and it was a huge success on so many levels. We had two groups of 30 people and classes were taught by myself and Dawn Chace of Creative Appliques. […]
How to line up two designs
Today I’m going to talk about lining up designs at the embroidery machine. A few people have asked “I only have a 4×4 hoop, so how can I stitch out names using bigger letters?” I think this has come up as a question to me because of the new AlphaTricks feature pack that was released […]
Creating a snowflake in StitchArtist
Snowflakes are mathematically beautiful – maybe why that is why I have always been fascinated and mesmerized by them. From simplistic to completely and intricately elaborate – they are beautiful. Once you “get the idea” and work out how to have your “branch” start and stop at the center point, you can get all sorts […]
Musings on digitizing – practice
I saw a FLURRY of posts on Facebook during December from those using various programs trying to figure out how to digitize stuff for projects they wanted to make for Christmas. We all know that digitizing is NOT something that we learn to do with perfect results over night. It takes playing and practice and […]
How I develop my digitizing plan – the story
Yes, this blog post is about machine embroidery, but I first wanted to share with you my story on how this came about. Before July 20, 2015, my knowledge of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) went as far as Stephen Hawking – a brilliant scientist who has been living with this disease for decades. It attacked his […]