I've decided that taste in embroidery designs is a bit like taste in puddings. While I quite like an occasional stodgy treacle sponge now and again, I much prefer something lighter. I feel the same about designs! Discuss......
Secret Santa update - quite a few gifts are on their way already! Please try to gauge your posting date so they arrive in time (but not too early!) Not long to go now.
Lots of Secret Santas are struggling for clues as to what to make. Please tell us here about the sort of gifts you like to receive. (Feel free to do this even if you are not taking part!)
I've tried a couple of craft fairs as a way to recoup some of the costs of all of the materials I've used to test my designs, but I haven't sold very much and I still have a big box full of quirky items. I've decided to have a shop on www.folksy.co.uk
I've spent this afternoon making my gift for my Secret Santee. (I don't like leaving things until the last minute!) However, I've checked the last posting dates and I don't need to send it for ages yet so now I need to remember where I've put it unti
I've just sent out the details of everyones Secret Santee. Please let me know if there are any problems. (I'd be surprised if I haven't bodged somewhere!) Would you all like to put some details of your best ever Christmas gift in this thread? (Wheth
Secret Santa news. I have just sent well over 100 emails to those of you who have asked to be on the list. Please check your emails and reply as appropriate. If, for some reason, I have missed you off, please let me know asap so I can put it right.
Just an observation - Many of the designs in the first few pages of DBC are accompanied by a digitising software image and no evidence of a stitch out. I for one would think twice before downloading one of these designs and likewise before posting a desig
We had a discussion a few weeks ago about making quilts from T-shirts. I have made two (memory)quilts now. The first I stabilised using old sheeting and backed with polar fleece. This one is very snuggly but was quite difficult to put together. For the se
This is my first real try at a filled design. I'm quite pleased with it although the windows don't quite fill the space I carved out of the bodywork. I used a photograph and an occasional look out in the garden at the real thing.
This might make you smile on a Monday morning....... If the link doesn't work for you, put megmel3 in the YouTube search box.
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Since I began digitising, it has given me a huge buzz when people have used my designs - especially when they have posted pictures in Projects. As my designs are a kind of engineering with fabric and thread, it has worried me that the instructions are mor
Sillyness for Friday morning. We couldn't resist adding the eyes to this cute tomato.
In my Cute Secret Santa Role, I am finding that some of our Secret Sisters are struggling with really serious illness. They don't wish to "go public", but I'd like to ask you all to spare a thought for them.