Finally finished my bag sewing sessions. Top ( blue) bag is made from wool and the green bag is organic cotton. The last picture is the green bag lining. I realise as I have got older it takes me longer to sew than it did. These were commissioned by a g
Happy 4th Birthday to Sue's baby - Engineered in stitches. In the time that her group has been running £13,731.02 ($18,322.65)) has been raised for her local hospice. That money has come from the donations from the designs that she has created for al
Reminder. Many sites offer free designs and the site owners hope that we the customers will search through their sites to find the freebies and along the way hopefully find something that we want to buy as well. So when posting freebies here or answerin
I was asked to make a green bag with a Welsh theme and this is the result. It’s fully lined and has a zipped pocket. The multi coloured bit on the photo is the lining. The font is in my laptop. I am really pleased with how this turned out. Currently
Thank you. Firstly for Sarah who through most of the year has posted birthday wishes. Not a easy task but one she has done so well. Thanks also to sewmom for her freebie posts, which are eagerly read and downloaded by many. Thanks also to gerryvb and
Yea towel for the mother of a very good friend who has moved to be closer to her. Thanks for looking
Wishing all our American Cuties and those around the world who celebrate a Happy Thanksgiving day from Wales, UK
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Enjoying my new V3 and this design which takes about 2 hours to stitch out. Very dark wool fabric for background. This will be a bag as requested by friend for one of her sisters. Thanks for looking
After yesterday’s disaster of embroidering fabric to the frame I finally uploaded the upgrade to my new machine and used one of the hoops it now takes. This is what I stitched today. It’s going to be either the front of a bag or a cushion for someone
Isn’t machine embroidery fun. Just spent ages getting my fabric set up on the frame. Taken it upstairs and put the frame down to remove what was in the machine and the frame and fabric popped apart... half an hour gone from setting it up. Then start to
Doing a first with both the PR650 and the V3 running at the same time. Having fun
Not very exciting. A friend has been busy sewing bags and things with all the extra time she has had in our recent firebreak (lockdown). I volunteered to make her some labels so I created a design on my laptop then had a play with my new machine
This is a piece of equipment that my husband uses when he is repairing cellos. As there is a very sharpe razor like end I have found it to be invaluable when there has been a birds nest and I need to carefully remove the fabric from the machine. What o
graceandham has got me thinking. How many of you have been to classes to help you with your machine embroidery? Not sure about what is available in the UK but I know many are not UK residents. I haven't but if you have how useful was/is it?