airyfairy — Cute Embroidery

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by airyfairy in Community

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It is just after 7.00.am here in SA and my grandson Jared has just checked in to hospital to have the growth on his leg removed. I spoke to him last night and he was very scared. I will post later to let you know how it goes. Hugs Sarah.

5 23 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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I have just completed a design with a million (slight exaggeration) jump stitches. It has taken me ages to cut them off. What is the best way to tackle jump stitches? If they are longish and not too many, I stop my machine and cut them straight away. T

19 22 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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The dragon saga continues. I spent the whole of yesterday evening unpicking the dragon that I was not happy with. In the meantime Meganne helped with underlay stitches on the design. After I had finished the t shirt looked as if it had been dragged thr

25 20 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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Thank you ladies who answered my question about underlay. I thought it best if I let you see what happened. It started at the spine of the dragon and then the horns were miles away from the top of head. The whole design was meant to have an outline but

15 19 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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After my disastrous day yesterday I wanted to know, especially from our digitizers -should all designs have an underlay stitch? It seems to me that it is crazy when one is sewing a dense filled design that there are no underlay stitches. I know I should h

5 19 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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I have had a bad day. I set out to embroider four t shirts for the GC. The first one had no underlay stitches and towards the end the design was all over the place. The second one my upper thread kept on breaking - eventually my machine said 'enough'

11 18 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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Nothing to do with embroidery but I wondered if any of the Cuties would know if fleece dyes. I have a winter white fleece jacket (no lining) and I wondered if I could dye it a beige. Sorry to post here but more people come to Public than Personal. Thank

2 16 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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Not so much a question just curious. When I look through projects I see there are some cuties who post almost every day with their projects. Do these Cuties embroider every day? I am afraid that I only embroider when I need to make something or decorate

23 15 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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My 3 year old GD would like me to embroider a 'pink' dragon on a t shirt. Any ideas where I could get a 'girly' dragon. Free would be wonderful but also willing to pay. Hugs Sarah.

7 14 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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As promised an update re my GS Jared. He has seen the orthopaedic surgeon this morning and he will be operated on next Friday. The reason behind the tumor is to do with the growth plates, getting confused and sprouting another bone. There is a very, ve

10 14 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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Morning Cute family. Is it possible to embroider a FSL design on to a piece of material? If I were to hoop the material what stabilizer should I use. I was thinking to 'float' WSS underneath the hooped material as I would like the back to be neat as p

3 14 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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My 13 year old grandson is going to see an orthopedic surgeon on Wednesday. They have discovered that he has a large tumour growing on his femur. It is going to need surgery. I won't be asking for prayers as I am not religious but a few warm thoughts mi

20 12 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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I have been looking at Carolyn's (noah) thread catcher. Do any Cuties know where I can find a pattern of a thread catcher that 'hangs' off a surface to have near or under my overlocker/ serger? Many thanks Sarah.

8 11 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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I have learnt a couple of things in the last few days. I have just finished my Ugandan Quilt (posted in projects). It is the first quilt I have ever made. Not satisfied to just have blocks, I decided to make a pattern. I have learnt NEVER to use gingh

9 08 Mar 2012

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by airyfairy in Community

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I am working on my quilt for Uganda and Chris (pennifold) tells me that it is usual to put a label on the back of the quilt. I just love Meganne's label so much and now I have added my name and Country I am going to sew it on the front - far too nice to

13 07 Mar 2012