spendlove — Cute Embroidery

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I hardly ever get excited about alphabets, but the new one with the Bargello style fill is fabulous!

18 13 Apr 2016

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by spendlove in Community

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I was asked what digitising involved and I thought it was worth throwing open to the community! For me, it means visualising what I want to make, then drawing lines in Embird for each stage of the construction which it cleverly turns into stitches for

10 11 Apr 2016

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"A stupid question from a stupid man" was the subject line of the email. (Guess who it was from!) Here is the text of the message. Further to my stupidity in volunteering to make these syringe-driver bags, I have a question which continues in

14 10 Apr 2016

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Do you have Murphy's Laws in other parts of the world or is it an English thing? Murphy's basic law states that "if something can go wrong, it will go wrong." Today I proved Murphy's Law as it relates to ITH toy making - "if you only have enou

21 31 Mar 2016

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An interesting question came up at our stitching bee today. One lady said that in all "old ladies sewing boxes" she had seen there was an acorn and she wondered why. None of us knew and Google only came up with the fact that Jane Austen had one in hers.

11 14 Mar 2016

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My sewing group had heaps of fabric donated and amongst it I found a panel that was four square scarves. I wanted to make a skirt from them, but it would have been very short so I came up with this. I hemmed each scarf on two sides and then joined the

15 10 Mar 2016

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We had a discussion a week or so ago about how words have different meanings in different parts of the world. We only talked about sewing words. However, it all goes much further and has much more serious implications. Some words which are deeply profa

7 09 Mar 2016

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by spendlove in Community

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For those of you who liked the sheepish fabric I've used for a couple of projects lately I have found out that it is "Knitty Sheep" designed by Greta Lynn for Kanvas. I've googled it and it should be possible to get it in USA. However, I also f

2 links:

[1] Knitty Bits

www.cuteembroidery.com

[2] More sheepy fabric

www.ebay.com

4 08 Mar 2016

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This is a quilt block from Sew magazine here in England. I was helping one of the young members of our stitching bee to put one of these together so I thought I'd do one myself! Mike says it looks more like a cat than a rabbit. In answer to "how

17 02 Mar 2016

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I have a fancy to make some gift bags with a transparent window. Lots of you must have made them already - what do you use for the window?

7 26 Feb 2016

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I think that our non-English speaking members do a fabulous job, but the rest of us must make life hard for them with some of the language we use. This is because around the English speaking world we have either different words for the same thing or the s

14 26 Feb 2016

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If any of you have had strange emails from lucypiwow please delete them. Do not click on the link. She knows that her email account was hacked and has taken the right steps to make sure it is now safe(r than it was!)

9 22 Feb 2016

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This tape measure came as part of a set of "tools for knitters". It has centimeters on one side and a mysterious unit on the other which I have not previously come across. Each one is equivalent to about one and a quarter inches. I measured my waist wit

7 21 Feb 2016

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by spendlove in Community

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One of my J-club ladies has just sent me this picture of a bag she has made using the ITH courthouse steps block I showed them how to make at our last meeting. I'm so chuffed! I digitised nine different blocks for them so they should be busy for weeks

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[1] My nine blocks

www.cuteembroidery.com

17 19 Feb 2016

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by spendlove in Community

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If you have a problem and need to contact the moderators, please send one PM to all of us (put mops,rescuer,crafter2243,02kar,asterixsew, jrob,spendlove in the to box.) If you only send to one of us it can take a long time for action to be taken, du

6 17 Feb 2016