Celebrate National Embroidery Month!
Did you know that February is National Embroidery Month? Now’s the perfect time to get back to being creative. We’ve survived another major holiday season, for many of us that was Christmas. And for many of us in the northern hemisphere, it is cold and the skies are gray. Yes, we oocasionally have gray days even here in southern Arizona and my idea of cold is anything below 65 degrees. Just goes to show you perception is relative!
So celebrate our own month! Why not treat yourself to some embroidery? Or better yet, why not renew your dedication to improving and expanding your embroidery skills and knowledge? You know you want to! Here are some ideas: (more…)
January 2010: Letter from Lindee
OK, so its the new year and we’re supposed to make all sorts of resolutions. Two that I should make are to be more faithful at posting new content and to get back in shape after a year lapse–especially because I have a big class reunion coming up in June. But I’m not gonna do that…
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Free Weekly Digitizing Workshop Webinars
Please join us for a live weekly digitizing workshop generously hosted by embroidery.com and yours truly. Together, James Lyman or Darin Andersen and I will be hosting this free webinar demonstrating digitizing techniques to answer your burning questions.
Topics covered so far: auto digitizing a hand drawn image, creating redwork from an image downloaded from the internet, free-standing lace, Building Blocks, monograms, and motifs.
Learn to Digitize Unit 2: ABCs of Keyboard Lettering in Generations
Whew! It’s been a lot of work and now the second unit in the Learn to Digitize series is now shipping! While the title is ABC’s of Keyboard Lettering, this module covers more than just typing letters into the Insert Text box.
