Last week, I took a class on Thread Painting, taught by Carolyn Tabarini and sponsored by our local guild. She was our guest speaker at the morning meeting with an impressive trunk show of her work. These two pieces have light threads on black backgrounds, all free motion machine stitching. A thread painted dragonfly was …
Category: machine embroidery
Kitchen Towels Project
My friend, Diana, gave me this kitchen print fabric recently. She had purchased it for herself, but lost interest in making anything with it. I thought it would be perfect for an embroidery project for the kitchen. Measuring it out, I could cut it into four rectangular pieces about 18 x 20. Adding a band …
Embroidered Coffee Theme Mats
At the guild gift store at our last show, I bought a cute mug with a mug rug to go with it. I just loved the idea, so I made a couple of mats and found mugs to go with them. I put them out for sale at the Fall Fiber Faire at our local …
A New Year – Cookies, Embroidery and Mountain Living
Several mornings this past week had such colors at dawn that I had to step out to the freezing cold to take pictures. This day had purple clouds low on the horizon, almost looking like a second mountain ridge with the sun coming up in front of them. The birds seem to like the new …
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Honeybee Projects
A couple of weeks ago, I showed you the beginning of this honeybee theme table runner in a Sunday Chat. When we left off, I had put the borders on and was ready to quilt it. Loading it on the longarm, I dug through my pantographs for something that would look like the flight path …
Money-Saving Machine Embroidery Tip
I am always looking for ways to make things easier and less expensive. With embroidery, especially with the new machines having enormous embroidery frames, the amount of waste in stabilizers is huge. I recently told a friend about this tip, and did some photos of my latest project to share it with you. The tip …
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