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Labor Day Sale!
As many of you prepare for the last holiday of the summer, Labor Day, it’s time to think about the next season. No, not fall (or spring for my friends down under)–embroidery season! Now is when we start coming back to our passion and begin making projects for the home, holidays, family, friends, and our [...]
New Shopping Cart System FAQs
The last three weeks have been hectic, working on a brand new shopping cart system, which just went live today. The primary purposes of the new cart are: Provide an easier mechanism for downloading the free designs. Provide an unrestricted number of products to allow individual design downloads Provide the ability for an affiliate program [...]
Free Hardanger Machine Embroidery Design
For this month’s free design, I thought I’d give you a taste from the hardanger collection plus use it in a sample project to give you an idea how it might be used. I’ve chosen to make a ring bearer wedding pillow out of white linen and use a golden yellow chiffon behind it to [...]
A New Concept for Embroiderers: Embrilliance!
Today I want to show you a cool new embroidery utility from my friends over at Briton Leap. For years, Brian and his team of gurus have been producing amazing products for embroiderers. Now they have a new concept called “Embrilliance,” which is a new brand from BriTon Leap that will include simultaneous releases of [...]
Summer Fun Cool Summer Project
My friend Terry, whom I jokingly call my number 1 customer, sent me a sample she made using the Summer Fun Building Blocks and it’s just so cute, I have to share it with you! Terry considers herself a novice at using her software so she was initially a little panicked at designing, but once [...]
May 2010 Free Embroidery Design
This floral design is the epitome of simple elegance. Perfect for a Mother’s Day project, garment, or home dec item, such as a pillow. It fits a 4″ x 4″ or 100mm x 100mm hoop.
Free Mini-Sampler of Designs
OK, so I got a bunch of requests from readers who wanted the Building Block mini-sampler in a format they could use with their own software. Well, guess what? Your wish has been granted! The Free Embroidery Design Mini-Sampler Of course, you won’t have near the flexibility that you do with Building Blocks but they [...]
Free Generations Building Blocks Mini-Sampler
Ok, so I’ve been going on and on about building blocks in my free weekly Generations Workshop webinars at embroidery.com. In fact, I’m becoming quite addicted to making them and designing with them. So, you just might be curious… Why I Love Building Blocks Why do I love them? Let me count the ways…
Tags: Designs, Freebies, Generations
St. Patrick’s Day Quick Project
Looking to put together a design for St. Patrick’s Day? This new Quick Project and webinar will walk you through all the steps you need to take to digitize this design from scratch in Generations embroidery digitizing software.
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, Projects, training
New! Quick Projects for Digitizers
If you have some basic experience with Generations and just want to learn some specific techniques, then these new Quick Projects are just the thing! These projects are designed to teach you new ways of using your digitizing software to create a specific embroidery technique or learn how to use specific tools in Generations™. You [...]
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, Projects, training
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.
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, training
Learn to Digitize Course Overview
I’ve taught digitizing theory for years but never tied it to a program except in house when working with the Cactus Punch digitizers and our program of choice. Why? Because to get really good at a program, you have to use it on a regular basis. Pair that with the fact that “I’m a Mac” [...]
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, training
Learn to Digitize with Generations
If you want to really learn to digitize embroidery with your digitizing software, you need to learn from an experienced professional digitizer with years of real world experience.
Tags: classes, digitizing, education, training
Hemingworth Thread Chart
There a lots of things to love about Hemingworth thread: Vibrant, lustrous shades in tri-lobal polyester The unique thread cap that protects the thread from dust, oils from your fingers, and bruising The label that tells you the thread color, thread name, and even the thread sequence number (that little number to the right of [...]
New Pattern: Southwest Wall Hanging Quilt
This vibrant southwest quilt showcases 5 machine embroidered appliqué designs digitized by Lindee Goodall for Dalco Home Sew. The quilt was designed, pieced and embroidered by Lindee and quilted by Barbara Angerhoffer. The central piecing is framed with a turquoise 1″ border surrounded by a dark 3″ border of mini Kokopelli black on brown print [...]
