Thank you all for sending birthday greetings and thanks Sarah for letting you all know. Considering we’re in lockdown I had a brilliant birthday. The picture is of the lovely flowers I received. I was able to open presents from my daughters with FaceTi
Been having some fun making a valentines card for a friend to give. It’s ages since I did a card so realise my ‘finishing skills’ require improving. Balloons are currently the EL freebie. Thanks for looking
Apologies I have been missing for a few days. Not been seeing much but did sort out the scraps of machine embroidery stabiliser which were getting everywhere. I also tidied up the Isafil threads I have. All are now neat and tidy. I bought these threads
We are aware that there are problem downloading designs at the moment. The site owner has been informed. Apologies to all and hopefully normal service will be resumed soon.
How many of you keep the box or boxes that your machines come in when they are new. I have asked this question elsewhere today. I keep and other half chucks. So I asked the question elsewhere as I feel it’s sensible to keep just in case the machine has
Present. Wool suiting fabric for a bag with UT design that was a freebie years ago and it’s a design I have used a number of times. Thanks for looking
Just been reading the responses to Jennes post on making cards and there is a reply that she is brave considering cardmaking. Are there any areas in machine embroidery that you havent attempted and why?
Finally, finally completed these two tops for the granddaughters. After the hassles of hooping the largest and stitching it out I thought for a long time and eventually floated the smaller top and hey presto it’s all done. Obviously need to use my think
Ages and ages ago I made this small teddy from a design Sue gave me. Ted Ted is still Going strong and is much adored. The first picture shows him sight seeing in London outside Buckingham Palace shortly after the first lockdown ended last year. The secon
For all Embroidery Library fans. There were discussions regarding emails from EL a few weeks ago saying their prices would be changning in the new year. The new designs and sales have just been posted so pop over and see the changes
Flowers - do you give them or not. As a moderator I spend time lurking and going through posts to see all is well. I am seeing more posts with many replies and few flowers. So do you give flowers or not? If I have posted I wil give flowers to all that
Yesterday’s post was brilliant. One parcel was 1.5kg of leather bits and the other was 50 pieces of 200x200mm wool fabric. Both of which will be used for appliqué. Now to find some time and start sewing.
I have PE Design 8. I started off with PE5. I use my softwear each time I have an embroidery machine on. I in some folks eyes am not the most adventurous user of the softwear. I know others use PE too and am wanting to know are there others here who up
Tea towel that needed ironing. I needed a little something for a gin lover at Christmas so I came up with this. It had a press/iron before being wrapped
Table mat for granddaughters. Daughter saw the one I made for Gruff for Christmas and asked could they have one too. So here is the finished mat. Thanks for looking