January challenge. Little purse to go with the dress I made my granddaughter. I made the pattern for the purse and digitised the design. It was quite a challenge to get the fabric into the metalwork - it kept slipping out, but I won. And I bought half
I played some more with my Silhouette, made two birthday cards and then decided to make cut-files for appliqué. I used the design of an owl soft-toy I made some time ago, but cut the separate parts out of paper before I would do it from fabric. Probl
First attemps to get my Silhouette to produce something for me. Have to get used to the software, so I used a few existing designs.
Christmas ornament. Just had to do one by hand.
Biscornu Did not need a pincushion at all, but could not resist making one. Material is upholstery fabric. It embroiders well so I think I'll make a cover for a footstool next.
Sue's December challenge I hope this was one of the freebies. Anyway this lovely design transformed a cheap fleece to something special. I wanted the penguin to be off-centre and walk into the fleece (size 110-116), but I should have been more rad
Bib. My neighbour asked me to make (yet another) bib. I've made loads of them, with or without the cut at the back - not just for her - and usually save the cut-out circles. Some of those I use for appliqué. But among the ones I had there was not
Christmas ornaments ITH Made another variation, holly this time. I have yet to stuff them and add a loop.
Christmas ITH ornaments. Made the red ones first and added the bow before I did the white ones, which I filled a bit more than the reds. Second picture are the ones I did last year.
BIb. Designed and made this bib today.
Skirt 2 for granddaughter, who wanted a blue skirt for her Anna outfit as well as the green I made earlier. See link. Placement was a bit trickier on this one due to the shape of the skirt. Now to do a dress for a 7 yr old grandniece.
How to auto-digitise redwork with 5D Extra Carolyn asked how to change the current clipart by Clipartopolis to an embroidery design. I am not a fan of auto-digitising, but redwork gives acceptable results. So here we go. Open 5D Extra and
Bib I had to test a design and I had embroidered a design off center on a guest towel. I killed two birds with one stone: tested the design and made something useful from the towel.
Quilt. Couple of years ago my SiL bought me some 25 - 35 cm pieces of Vlisco fabric in the factory's personnel store for a pittance. I used 6 pieces and added two plain fabrics, the orange and the green, and used the Hidden Wells pattern. It resulted
Is there anyone who owns the Husqvarna 200x200 mm quilter's hoop? The hoop costs €135 here, the 200x260 mm hoop costs €60. A great difference in price. The dealer asked Husqvarna what the difference between those two was, but they said there was n