I’ve been doing some “After Hours with Lisa” live videos on Facebook on my Business page. This is a new learning experience for me – I decided to go with the casual after hours theme to encourage a relaxed setting for us to chat about machine embroidery. I have settled on doing them on Monday […]
The life of a digitizer revolves around the test sew. You’ve heard me say this often, and this can use alot of materials and hooping time especially when you are working on smaller items. I thought I would share one of my “machine tips” that I try to make use of when possible. Combining multiples […]
Let’s talk about applique styled machine embroidery embroidery designs. An applique embroidery design, in general, will have three steps. Step 1 is a placement stitch and the machine must stop after it stitches this step. Many refer to this as color #1 because home embroidery machines will stop at the end of a color. You […]
The class that I taught at the Sewcial Escape last week focussed on using Embrilliance Essentials to create cut files that can be used for applique and more. As a recap for those that took the class and anyone else interested, I have created a couple videos on what we did in class as well […]
When digitizing letters, sometimes we get wrapped around the thought that a letter, such as the Letter S, should be one object. Its easy to visualize that the Letter A would be 3 objects – one for each leg and one for the center bar across. But the letter S…. when we look at this […]
Since we had so much fun last year with pre-Applique Getaway hands on Embrilliance classes — I’ve worked it out with the event and the hotel to do this again! You can find information under the Shop link on my website! If you are looking to register for the Applique Getaway and the lecture demo […]