Running In Circles – Coaster, Pockets, Cord Wraps & More

25
May

What can you make with a free-standing applique circle? A lot of things if you’re as creative as Linda McGehee!

I teamed up with Linda McGehee to create this fun project collection you can whip up quickly with your embroidery machine.

Originally designed to make coasters, mug rugs, or cord managers using precut, double-sided, fusible interfacing, the Running in Circles Design Pack has limitless possibilities for appliqué or embroidery on garments, towels handbags, totes, ornaments, quilts, or table runners.

Use individually or place multiples on the project to create one of a kind designs. Experiment with different thread types such as variegated thread to make the design uniquely your own.

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Designed and made by Linda McGehee (5/25/2016)

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ITH Snappy Glasses Cases

28
Apr

Six in-the-hoop quilted panels to make a glasses or phone case with a snap closure using a metal tape measure. The case is fully lined, with no exposed seams and resulting in a professionally constructed bag.

Warning: Finishing does require some quick and simple basic sewing. Why? Because you need to insert a metal tape measure, and I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to risk hitting that with my embroidery machine!

You’ll stitch one panel for the front and second for the back. Each of the 6 panel designs provides a different quilting motif: 4 glasses and two basic quilting. Mix and match as you choose!

Since the glasses designs are also quilting, or outline style, to get them filled in like the photo, you’ll need to color them somehow (paint, ink, colored pencil, glitter glue – your choice).

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (4/28/2016)

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In-the-Hoop Log Cabin Coffee Mug Rug

25
Apr

I started by enlarging Log Cabin 2 from Cabin Fever: Piecing in the Hoop.

For this mug rug, I had to shrink a coffee cup design I had. Because shrinking bean stitch designs doesn’t always work well, I added this revised version to the shop.

I used Adine Script to add all sorts of coffee-related terminology into the “logs.” (I just googled “coffee terminology when I ran out of ideas.) This actually took quite a while to find just the right length to fit the space without repeating any phrases.

Once I had all the lettering where I wanted it, I sequenced it to sew in an optimal matter, coloring all the text on the light logs dark and the text on the dark logs light. If I stitch this again, I’ll increase the contrast between the lettering and fabric colors because it’s actually quite hard to read.

The instructions for Cabin Fever call for piecing in the hoop onto the stabilizer. Instead, I hooped the backing fabric (face down) with a layer of batting on top and pieced onto that.

This resulted in quilting the layers together as I pieced. You’ll want to use a backing fabric with a busy print to camouflage the stitching.… Read the rest

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In-the-Hoop Log Cabin Cupcake Mugrug

25
Apr

For this project, I started by enlarging Log Cabin 2 from Cabin Fever: Piecing in the Hoop and then added Cupcake 6 Redwork (small) from Crazy for Cupcakes.

The instructions for Cabin Fever call for piecing in the hoop onto the stabilizer. Instead, I hooped the backing fabric (face down) with a layer of batting on top and pieced onto that.

This resulted in quilting the layers together as I pieced. You’ll want to use a backing fabric with a busy print to camouflage the stitching.

Think of creative ways to use your designs!

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (4/25/2016)

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Hummingbird Greeting Cards

28
Mar

It’s totally possible to embroider on paper—even with metallic thread!

Stitching on paper is ideal for combining with other coloring media; I used colored pencils on one of the cards.

The basic tricks are similar to any embroidery:

  • Choose the right design
  • Choose the right fabric, or, in our case paper
  • Hoop it without damage to the machine or project
  • Use the right stabilizer, thread, and needle
  • Make sure your machine is optimized (speed, tensions, clean) for your project

So just what are those for paper? Check out this blog post: 15 Top Tips for Perfect Machine Embroidery on Paper.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (4/15/2016)

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Depresso Tea Towel

12
Apr

Making fun combinations like this is a cinch with Embrilliance Essentials and even the free Embrilliance Express. Once your font is installed via a simple drag-and-drop process, you’re ready to select it and just type!

Trying to merge in letters one at a time is just ridiculous and is totally unnecessary if you can get your fonts in BX format.

Fonts used: Euforia and Zelda.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (4/12/2015)

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Sammy Birth Announcement

28
Mar

A friend of mine came to me with a photo of a birth announcement she’d seen at a baby shower and asked if I could reproduce it. I recognized the fonts as similar to, if not the same as, ones I’d already digitized so it wasn’t too difficult.

She needed it to fit a 5×7″ sewing field, so that information combined with the baby’s details was all I needed to reproduce her photo.

I liked the layout and since my niece had recently given birth to a baby boy, I adapted the layout for him. Of course, she never actually got it since it became a resident of my traveling sample case.

Funny Little Story: You might think my house is filled with embroidery. It is, sort of, but only in high concentrations in travel cases ready to go to the next show.

Fonts used: Hobo, Rachel, Helvetica Narrow plus a candle wicking motif.

I set this up in my digitizing software where all my fonts live as closest point keyboard fonts. Once I have my design set up, I can easily customize it for another baby.

Caution: I did have to significantly distort some of the characters to match the photo and that can work better in a digitizing program where you still have the object as opposed to working with a stitch file font.

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Daisy In-the-Hoop Zips

20
Mar

The daisy is the birth month flower of April and is associated with purity, innocence, loyal love, beauty, patience, and simplicity.

This month’s project is the result of requests for “in-the-hoop” projects, specifically a zippered bag. This design series is really based on a block of the month quilt and therefore doesn’t include an ITH bag.

Digitizing a basic in-the-hoop project is not difficult once you understand how the project is “engineered;” after all it’s really just composed of running stitches to replace the seams.

But not everyone has digitizing so I added a basic bag specifically for this lesson. It’s only available with the lesson and not the April Birth Month Flower collection.

A basic bag is all well and good but what if you want to add a design to it? And what if the design you’d like is really part of another design? Well, then, you’ll have to dig into software.

This lesson involves more advanced editing and even a little stitch editing. We’ll extract some elements from a daisy design and rearrange them for a simple design to quilt our ITH bag.

Then we’ll learn where to insert it into the bag design in the proper sequence.… Read the rest

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Fanciful Birds Ornaments

30
Nov

Back in the spring, I used these birds to stitch on a set of purchased pastel table napkins.

Now that it’s winter, I saw a photo of a cardinal and it made me recall that my grandma called them red birds, which then segwayed into some little felt birds she used to make and suddenly I had the idea to make these!

These are actually the same bird designs with just an extra outline around them to stitch another layer of felt to the back. After I showed them at my next embroidery club, everyone wanted the outline already added instead of modifying the original set so I added this set.

They’re quick and easy to make and I’ve written up the instructions, which are included with the set. Once you remove the bird from the hoop, add a little stuffing to plump it up. Hang in a window or on your Christmas tree!

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (11/30/2014)

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Poinsettia & Holly 3D Embroidered Corsage

16
Nov

Yes, you read that right! This corsage was created from the December Holly & Poinsettia birth month flower applique design.

As we progress through the Echidna PIE Embroidery Training Series, we build on past lessons to expand our techniques and creativity and move beyond basic “plop and drop” mentality.

To create the corsage, I’ll show you how to edit a design even if you only have customizing software to create a design that can be stitched on organza and made into a corsage, just in time for the holiday season!

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (11/30/2014)

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Vintage Redwork Sewing Rotary Cutter Case

23
Oct

Another little project I made from a test sew sample. I stitched a redwork design in gray and then colored with colored pencils.

I learned two things from this experiment:

  1. Coloring is best done on larger designs
  2. Color is uneven when a fabric is printed, even if it’s just tone on tone

This is not an in-the-hoop project. I added a zippered strip to a piece of vinyl and then used a binding around the perimeter to stitch the two pieces together. Simple stuff and just perfect for storing my rotary cutter safely when packing off to class.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (10/15/2014)

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Aster Quilt Block Portfolio

07
Aug

One of September’s birth flowers is the aster, which in Greek means star and represents love, faith, wisdom and symbolizes valor according to some sources or strength, immunity, and integration according to others.

The other flower is the morning glory, which symbolizes affection.

In this third month of the Echidna PIE Embroidery Training Series, I was asked to design a project using the Starfish Revolution software from Echidna. This program lets you combine and carousel designs and then can print out a layout.

Yes, there are other programs that do similar things. This one works out the hoopings and angles for each section if the design is larger than your sewing field. So this month we’ll be expanding on what we learned about perfect placement in month 2.

To keep the stitching down, I chose to work with some of the single elements in the redwork style to build a large medallion and then drop in a monogram.

This is the same intertwined monogram I used on another project a few years back. Create your intertwined monogram and you’ll find lots of places to use it!

If you’re a quilter, you’ll love this oversized portfolio. It’s perfect for toting projects to bees or classes and you’ll have pockets to carry and protect all those unwieldy rulers.… Read the rest

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