Free Embroidery Designs, Cute Embroidery Designs

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Back to smocking. I decided to see if I could make something that looked like English Smocking on the embroidery machine. (I know smocking designs exist, but I didn't study them as I wanted to work through the process for myself.) Here is my first attemp

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www.cuteembroidery.com

913 Apr 2015

by spendlove in Community

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This morning my laptop behaved very strangely. The mouse scroll wheel worked as if the control key was pressed, so it enlarged rather than scrolled. I couldn't open emails, and each time I tried to log out of them, a new win

502 Apr 2015

by spendlove in Community

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More smocking. Berny made a reference to "American Smocking" in commenting on my baby dress. I hadn't heard this term so I had to look it up to find out what it was. I vaguely remembered my Mum smocking without gathering the fabric, but couldn't recal

2 links:[1] The English Smocked dress
www.cuteembroidery.com[2] tfk's lovely cushion
www.cuteembroidery.com

914 Apr 2015

by spendlove in Community

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Over the past few days, several people have bemoaned the fact that their photographs are not as good as they would like. I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread where people could add their tips for taking a good photograph of their project.

1 links:[1] If you have trouble uploading pictures, look here.
www.cuteembroidery.com

1526 Mar 2015

by spendlove in Community

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It is 20 past nine in the morning and it is getting dark. In about 20 more minutes we will have an almost total solar eclipse. We seem to be in a prime position in our part of England as the sky is clear (for the first time this week.) It i

1523 Mar 2015

by spendlove in Community

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How about a challenge for March? I was thinking about Spring Cleaning (only thinking, I can assure you) and I had a look through my duster bag. This contains T-shirts which are well past their prime (to put it nicely!) So he

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www.urbanthreads.com

1322 Mar 2015

by spendlove in Community

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A neat way to make a tiny pompon. My daughter showed me this method yesterday when we were making a bunny. 1. Place a length of yarn through the tines of a table fork as shown. (The longer the tines the easier it will be.)<b

2910 Apr 2015

by spendlove in Community

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A message from Dennis " please pass on my very best to those ladies of Cute and ask them not to worry on my account. As Arnie says......"I'll be back".................and then they will have something to complain about.....HaHa." He doesn't ch

2619 Feb 2015

by spendlove in Community

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We had our second J-club meeting today. Four ladies came, all of them new to machine embroidery. (One of them had had her machine for 9 months and it is still in the box!) I had digitised two very simple ITH designs for them which seemed to go down ver

1417 Feb 2015

by spendlove in Community

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What is the world coming to? Australia will be taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest in a few weeks. Welcome to the northern hemisphere. You will be needing your thermal undies!

912 Feb 2015

by spendlove in Community

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I had some great responses to my previous thread about projects to set for beginners and it made me think of a supplementary question..... What single piece of advice would you give to someone just starting out in machine embroidery? I know what my ans

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3318 Feb 2015

by spendlove in Community

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Your help please everyone. I am trying to help get our local J-Club of the ground. It seems that most people who come will be "machine embroidery virgins" and or dressmakers. Each meeting is two hours and we have access to the machines in

1618 Feb 2015

by spendlove in Community

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Are you up for the first challenge of 2015. I thought we needed something to take us out of the January doldrums. Your mission, should you care to accept it, is to try something you haven't tried before and share the results with the rest of us. T

2030 Jan 2015

by spendlove in Community

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I'm working on some applique designs which I want to look hand stitched. My usual method of tack down, trim and finish does not look good without satin stitch covering the edges. So, I've been trying the method where the applique pieces are precut and h

1028 Jan 2015

by spendlove in Community

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Janome, here in UK, has started a club. You can join on-line at http://j-club.co.uk/ The intention is to have local groups who can meet and share ideas. As far as I can see, you don't have to be a Janome user to join, so how about it?

1 links:[1] j-club
j-club.co.uk

622 Jan 2015