Entries for the ‘Featured’ Category
A Bumper Crop of Baby Bonnets
These two darling baby bonnets are quick and easy to construct. You can easily whip one out in less than an hour (minus embellishing time) and more than likely with supplies you already have in your stash! Each of these bonnets uses designs from the Building Block series of design that were then customized to [...]
Free-standing Lace Heart Box & Sachet
What could be sweeter than this? Just in time for Valentine’s Day, you let your embroidery machine whip up some lace that can be transformed into a small ring or trinket box, a sachet, or an ornament? A touch of delicate romance is a delight year round, not just for Valentine’s Day! Consider other holidays—Mother’s [...]
Get a $250 Angel for Only $5!
This year marks the 15th anniversary of my first heirloom angel, created for an office Christmas party contest. At the time I still worked full time for an ad agency in Cincinnati (as well as full-time building the then fledgling Cactus Punch). There were several categories for the tree ornament contest, and knowing my co-workers, [...]
Video Training Series for Embrilliance Essentials
Have you seen Embrilliance Essentials yet? In this video, I just have a little fun creating a simple design just using the built in fonts. You’ll see how easy it is to select font styles, see how they look, and resize, mirror and rotate them.
30% Off! Storewide Star-Spangled Sale 2011
Now through July 5, 2011 you can get 305 off any in-stock products in our shop! To get the 30% off, you need to use this coupon code: lge0410 This sale was originally sent out to VIP members and it expired on June 30. However, I ran the sale during the week and I heard [...]
Cabin Fever: Piecing in the Hoop
Foundation piecing, also known as paper piecing, is a popular technique used by quilters to easily piece blocks quickly and perfectly. Cabin Fever is a collection of 20 designs that recreates this process with your embroidery machine.
Tags: embroidery, piecing, piecing in the hoop, quilting, quilting in the hoop
Do Your Outlines Ever Look Like This?
Have you ever sewn a design where the outlines were radically off in some areas but pretty good in others? Did your design have gaps between sections? Why are some outlines much worse than others? In general, I’m not a big fan of running stitch outlines, especially black ones. They’re hard to digitize and they’re [...]
Free Embroidery Design Collection to Start the New Year
Looking for some interesting and well-digitized free embroidery designs? How about an entire collection of coordinated designs that: sew well on a wide range of fabrics are relatively low stitch count require few color changes adapt well to many color schemes are large enough to make an impact have interesting textural effects? That’s a pretty [...]
December Specials
Holiday Traditions Design Collection
On special until November 15! buy the collection and get 6 spools of Hemingworth thread! More information…
Adorable You! Review
Ragdoll Critters Embroidery Design Collection
Ten cute and cuddly stuffed animal embroidery designs all designed to fit 4 x 4″ (100 x 100mm) hoops. Multi-format. Manually digitized in Generations; GEN format included. Shown below at 50% actual size. Only $15 for entire collection thru October 21! Save $25 Available for instant download.
Winter Teddies Bluework in Purples
Who says blue work must be blue or red work must be red?
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 [...]
Machine Embroidered Hardanger
Machine embroidered what? In case you’re not up on traditional hand embroidery techniques, hardanger is a type of drawn-thread work done on even weave fabric, often linen or cotton, and traditionally in white. It gets it’s name from a region in Norway although the technique itself can be traced back to more ancient cultures.
Tags: Designs, Generations, machine embroidery, Projects, webinars
