Tag Archives: Craftsy

All-Over Embroidery Fabric Design a la Bendy Bag

NOTE: My friend Joan of Lazy Girl Designs, has also written a blog post about my project!  What fun to see my project through her eyes!  You can read about it here Creating an all-over embroidery design for fabric is an easy way to create a completely custom piece.  I LOVE the shape of the […]

2015 – My Year in Review

As 2015 is coming to a close, I remember all of the excitement of being nominated and then winning the Best Blog of 2015 in the Craftsy Instructor category.  Of course, I still have not finished moving all of my blog posts over to their new home.  It will continue to be a work in […]

All About Lining Up Designs in Embrilliance

I will admit that my reason for today’s post is to “make things easier for me”.  Smile with me – once you get to know me, you will find I am all about EASY – easy for me and easy for you! I belong to quite a few machine embroidery groups on Facebook and one […]

BX Fonts – Not sure what they are? Check out this information!

For those that are into machine embroidery, BX fonts are a pretty nifty time saving creative “format” created by Brian Bailie, the owner and programming genius behind Embrilliance software. I put quotations around “format” because the BX really isn’t an embroidery machine format like PES or DST.  A better description is to say that it’s an installation […]

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 […]