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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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 […]
Quick Project – Business Card Holder
I love to find quick sewing projects that allow me to add embroidery. Business card holders are perfect to make for gifts for a variety of reasons. They use up scrap fabrics! They can be cute and functional – they can hold gift cards, business cards, frequent shopper cards etc Kids love them too – […]
How much binding do you need? Refer to I Plead Quilty go-to calculations!
Those of you that follow me know that I am not a quilter but I do create many projects and samples that use a “quilter’s binding” as the finishing edge. I actually enjoy the hand sewing involved in putting on a binding in this fashion so it is my go-to finishing technique. I’m not an […]
Separating part of a design using Embrilliance Enthusiast
The stitch editing of Embrilliance Enthusiast allows you to split out part of a design in one operation.Working with this design, you can see that the two butterflies will stitch out simultaneously. Each color is in both butterflies and will stitch out in order together. So what if you just wanted one butterfly? Or maybe […]
Big Embroidery with a Small Hoop – Take a class and see how to do this!
When you have an embroidery machine, you can embellish almost anything. And just because you have a specific size hoop, this does not mean you have a limit or restriction on the size of the embroidery. Once you become comfortable with rehooping and creating larger layouts with precise alignment – the size of your hoop […]