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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The photo flower project is almost finished so I thought I would begin posting the how-to software videos to give you a sneak peak as to what’s coming next! Once the project is complete, I will post photos of it as a completed project, but right now, you get to see a glimpse of what […]
It’s that time of year again! I’m so excited to be teaching 4 classes at this year’s SewExpo in Puyallup WA at the end of February! There will be many different machine embroidery sessions on so many different topics! My classes are on Subway Art, Digitizing and creative customizing – I’m teaching 2 classes a […]