Today I watched 40 coffins being unloaded in Eindhoven Airport from an Royal Australian Air Force plane and a R Netherlands A F one. The first remains of victims of the shot-down Malaysian aircraft. The simple but respectful ceremony was an antidote to th
Embird redwork question. I got a PM with this question from someone who wants to remain unknown. quote When I do lineart, I use Embird's single stitch for the outlines, with a backward path, so the design stitches twice. Carolyn K
Clipartoon started a new series of freebies, called Bamboo. They look nice at first sight and I digitised the first today. But now I find them rather boring. The flowers are all the same, the leaves aren't. It stitches out nicely enough, but I would not
Effects of different stitch angles. I got quite a few comments about the nice shading in my begonias. There was not any shading at all, just different stitch directions. The picture shows one colour being stitched and the apparent colour shades
Fish bowl and vase Seeing darlingwife's fish bowl I remembered I digitised one a couple of years ago, which I never stitched out. So now that my granddaughter is asleep on the settee, I looked it up and thought I could easily change the bowl int
6D I promised to let you know about 6D compared to 5D. Let's start with a general observation. The interface is different from the 5D version. Less jumping around from one page to another. It looks cleaner and it certainly works faster, e
This is for eggyannie. Made the design. Would be fun for a pincushion.
Yesterday evening my neighbour's brother-in-law gave me a surprise package of knitting yarn, very thin, and a lot of it. He had helped moving an old lady (actually only 5 years older than me) to a senior flat and she asked him to find someone who might u
As a result of Loralye's challenge I finished a knitting UFO, the cable one. Then I started the blue self-striping one. My husband saw my renewed knitting enthousiasme and bought me a book that was also published in an English translation - Dutch Tra
Rectangular basket. As promised I tried out a rectangular one. Starting with a rectangle you never get a rectangle, always a parallelogram or diamond. I should have realised that to start with! So I drew the bottom of the basket, added s
Got an email from SewSwellDesigns mentioning their Serengeti collection. Had a look and was astonished to see two tigers and a panda in the (beautiful) set. They must have lost their way big time. But the sets are half price.
A friend brought me a bag with 5 fleece blankets. Her daughter wanted to have names on them and she had pinned the names on each one. The friend showed me the top one which mentioned the height of the letters. I could choose my own colours and she knew it
I try to knit and crochet to use up of my stash of yarn. These are two crochet blankets, one from remnants of 4-ply woollen yarns (picture 1), the other from leftovers of socks I knitted some time ago- I liked the variegated and self-striping yarns but ha
Do you still have the diskettes you used with your old Designer1? I have quite a collection of old Husqvarna/Viking designs. No need to put them on a usb-stick / thumb drive. Just plug an external diskette reader into your machine (or a hub if you
Clipartoon has a new series of freebies, little clothes. I ddigitised the 3 that has been posted so far, see picture for #1. You can find the designs on Yoriko's site. And you'll find the cornflower designs there as well.