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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is a personal design object library? In the world of computer programming, one of the key goals is to create and take advantage of “reusable code” to shorten the amount of time spent on a coding project. Little sub-routines that you create and compile and save to your library to use in the future. […]