sewmom — Cute Embroidery

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by sewmom in Community

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I was in San Francisco yesterday for a friend's birthday. We saw a bit of the America's Cup race at the Marina, took a ride in a pedi cab and then walked around Fort Mason to get to Fisherman's Wharf. The race went in front of Alcatraz and almost as fa

8 27 Aug 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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I spent several hours at the County Fair and strolled through the fiber exhibits. Lots of beautiful projects. Something that really caught my eye was the 3D paper decoupage art! The fair is celebrating 100 years so there were a lot of exhibits that showed

14 08 Jul 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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I am working on a t-shirt quilt and I am not a quilter. (I've done small ones.) I would like to know if there is a way to quilt this myself without a quilting machine or long arm machine. How can it be done in pieces? I hear it could be $200 to have it q

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[1] http://answers.cuteembroidery.com/8856618.html

answers.cuteembroidery.com

10 03 Jul 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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I had the pleasure of having dinner with a local quilter. She teaches quilting classes and has her own quilting business. (Her husband and mine work in the same industry which is why this dinner took place.) I was thrilled to see her 14 foot quilting mach

3 links:

[1] Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

[2] Pintrest pictures of quilts

pinterest.com

[3] Googel search for Baltimore album quilts

www.google.com

17 24 Jun 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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I need some hugs. I'm sitting here hemming my daughter's senior ball gown and trying not to get tears on it. It's separation anxiety. How am I going to get through the next 3 months before she goes to college? Yes, my boys have already been through thi

36 09 May 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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I'm doing a lot of small lettering and to keep the bobbin thread from showing through I reduced my tension. This works but my Brother ULT 2003D keeps stopping me and telling me to check my thread. I just hit start again and it's fine but I'm literally

12 25 Apr 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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I need a little laundry help. I need to get tree sap out of washable wool pants. I usually wash them in cold water and hang them to dry but that won't get sap out. Yes, that was my son out there on Earth day chopping down trees to get his sawyering cert

10 24 Apr 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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Digitizing and Editing software questions. I just looked at MasterWorks II and it looks really good. Anybody out there using it now? Anybody have comparisons to PE Design Next or Embird? My local store will support and give lessons for the MasterWorks so

17 21 Apr 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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Embroidery Passbook update I got in my email. Please use this post for comments: G'day On the 31st of March my own website www.glennharris.com was infected with a virus, that the second Passbook was connected to my site, this also got infected.

9 20 Apr 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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It was a wet and thunderous evening yesterday! Today wasn't as bad but I did drive through some crazy hail. Incredible picture of the lightning hitting the San Francisco Bay Bridge (Photo: Phil McGrew/Flickr)

27 13 Apr 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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Hi Cuties, My turn to ask about which software to buy. I know it's been asked before but until you need to do it yourself it doesn't always make complete sense. I've been blessed with a new computer that has Windows 7. I have been told that my PE Desig

1 links:

[1] Brother software

www.brother-usa.com

9 31 Mar 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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DH and I had planned to go to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas but I had a root canal done which resulted in an infection. On top of that I got a terrible cold/sinus infection. At the last minute we decided I could make it which was good because

24 15 Jan 2012

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by sewmom in Community

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I need to vent. I was at the new Joanne's fabrics super store. I got a parking space which should have been a good sign. I found my elastic quickly but it had to be cut so I got a cutting number, #80, they were on #62. Seriously! It wasn't even busy in

32 22 Nov 2011

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Halloween Carvings and, is that actually my new front doors!? Yes! They are in and almost done. It gets another coat of paint on the trim tomorrow. Now all I need are some suggestions on how to clean the cement step. Pumpkins are Flounder from Lit

13 01 Nov 2011

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by sewmom in Community

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10-22-11 Cutie Meeting in Northern California. From the left we have Elizabeth, Angie(crafter2243), Sewmom, Mousemaster(in the back), Denise (shuede), and Sewmom's sister in front. We had a lovely/yummy lunch and lots of visiting time but I t

30 23 Oct 2011