I have a Bernina 830 and love to embroidery!

Several months ago I needed a wide variety of fonts and... I needed them NOW and as inexpensive as possible. I had not even heard of the website but asked around and it got some good reviews. I took a leap of faith and purchased the whole package of fonts. The other day I stitched out a few quilt panels for my cousin and was quite pleased with the results! So I thought I would pass along the information so others could enjoy them too. http://www.8clawsandapaw.com/

I have no affiliation with this website at all. I was simply very pleased with the stitchout of the fonts I purchased.

Thanks; I've never heard of them before. Here is a site that I just found out about and stitched the design last night. It turned out really nice. I have to admit that my teacher took the design and made an eyeglass case with it so the rose lace design was inserted into it. Tonight I'll do the checkbook cover and bookmark. The site shows these things but we couldn't find the pattern so my teacher modified one she had and put some stippling on it; all was done in the hoop. They have a great sale going on right now too. This was the first time I had ordered and will order again from them.
http://www.annaboveembroidery.com/

Judy; Nice website thank you for sharing. That is one I haven't heard of.

I posted this also in the other embroidery forum that is running
but I know there are some who are not going to that posting
(yet at least) so though I would share the following with you.

Here are two of the latest projects I done. The pillow is finished and
in the mail to my cousin, and the quilt top is almost finished need to
sandwich, quilt & bind then it is ready to be given as the wedding gift
this Saturday.


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Their wedding colors are yellow/gold & light blue (teal), the wedding
flowers are white hydrangeas. I hope this quilt will be a good show
of their colors. This is going to be a wall hanging that is 25"x32" approx.
The back is an embroidered quilt label.


I also have some other embroidery I have been doing, but can't show
it just yet as I am not finished with it and it is for someone I am in a
swap with, she has to be the first to see it though.

Of course I am loving the jewelry (mostly earrings) that I am making
right now I am wearing a pair of "parrot" earrings.

Very nice, Louise. Love the bird

Thanks K.

This is the second Moluccan Cockatoo that I have made.
The first one I made as a mug rug swap (another website)
as the theme was "birds" when I posted it on facebook my
cousin (who has one of these birds) wanted the mug rug I
told him he couldn't have "that" one because it was already
spoken for, but I would make him one.

He (and his darling wife) paid me $55 for 2 embroidery birds
the other is an Umbrella cockatoo that is not "made" into any
specific project as Kelly is going to turn it into either a tote bag
or purse so she just wanted it embroidered on fabric and left
at that.

quilty-louise: Thanks for sharing your projects. They are excellent.

Come on everyone, start sharing pictures of your projects!!!

Quilty-Louise,

Are the earrings you are making embroidered? If so, how about sharing the what and wheres?

Sonia Showalter has the most magnificent earring designs.
Louise and I both get designs from My Garden Embroidery. She has tons of charms and earrings there.
Yesterday I got the newest quilting design from Pixies Rule for $1.00! She has tons of sets for the same price, too.
Has anyone used the delightful recipe towel designs at Grandma Debbie's Designs? I made one for a QB friend of the 5 minute cake in a cup. It was so cute.

Have you stitch out designs from" Pixies Rule" .... she sure has some cute ones..

Yes. They stitch out beautifully! I love the quilting designs, too.

I just did my first embroidery on my new Singer FQ 4 (futura quartet from hsn). Might preface this with I thought I had a problem with the machine-I couldn't get the feed dogs back up. Low and behold I emailed Singer and they e-mailed me a procedure to follow and it worked....

So, at 3 in the morning I embroidered a little flower that is preloaded....the machine was kind of loud and I'm sure my neighbors were thrilled, but oops too bad. I was just so happy the dang thing worked!! I didn't even have the correct thread in the machine or do a required color change. Dang if I didn't make the cutest little gray flower you ever saw-at least it is to me

I love the automatic threader and I believe I could die and go to heaven over the automatic up down position for the needle

I'd like to thank all who mentioned the embroidery library-I went there and downloaded freebies and a bit more..tee hee.

Off to play

Thank you for the emb. sites. I checked them out. They have great designs.

Connie, Sonia Showalter has gorgeous free alphabets, too.

Another great site for designs with TONS of FSL is at CRISWELL Embroidery

I have MANY of the designs including the bookmarks with a letter on the end.

I'm taking a break from my quilting to embroider onto some little 3 month size onezies for a new great-grandson. However I don't have the smallest size hoop for my Brother; so, I will have to make an applique and sew it on. The pattern that I want to use is so cute, but it seems stiff for the little knit onezie. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I don't know how to reduce the number of stitches in a purchased pattern. The pattern is from Embroider Library.

I am sooooo disgusted that all I want to do is cry!

The embroidery design I post of the hydrangea bouquet
for the wedding that is TODAY (which I am unable to attend)
has turned into a DISASTER when I quilted it, thought I could
work around the few puckers on the back.

I put the walking foot on my machine to do some straight line
SitD and the puckering in the corners is so bad that now I have
to decide to I start all over including all the embroidery, or do I
start on something completely different, or start ripping out stitches
which is NOT going to be easy.

Hubs suggested the I rip the stitches out closest to the center near
the embroidery design and turn it into an applique. Not sure what to
do but I am so depressed about all that work for nothing but a mess.

I'm so sorry about your disaster. May I suggest you take the stitches out next to the embroidery. Stuff the back of the bouquet with a LOT of batting until the design is raised and the puckers are filled out, making it very three dimensional. It should look like it was designed to be that way on purposed when you are finished. Make the puckers work for you not against you. Good luck on whatever you do.

As someone who has done dozens and dozens of onesies, I am sad to tell you that many (even most) embroidery designs just aren't suitable for super soft knits like onesies. just reducing the stitch count won't necessarily improve the design, and may make it not work at all. I generally prefer outline or appliqué designs. You can use the heavier designs on little sweat shirts in a few months when the weather cols off.

If the design just has to be used on the onesie, use at least one layer of polymesh as the stabilizer and put another layer of polymesh under the onesies when you appliqué the design. The soft knit will not support much embroidery with a tear away like is frequently recommended for patch appliqués.

Pam

Thank you.

Me too! the Pixies Rule designs are very nice!

try hatchedinafrica.com for designs. they aren't very dense and stitch out nicely on things made for kids. it's a great site; family run

A couple of years ago I embroidered some designs for a few different quilts. One is a set of Sunbonnet Sue. The other set are Alaskan themes that remind me of when we lived in Alaska. Our son was born there so I thought I'd make a quilt for him with some manly colors! I think I even have some with Japanese and Geisha designs..since we lived in Japan for 3 yrs. Anyway...I plan to get them all out and put each set in big zip lock bags and then I will be able to see them and hopefully the mood will hit me to get busy and make some blocks for the various quilts.

Speaking of embroidering Sunbonnet Sues ... here is a little quilt I just made for a swap. Unfortunate placement of the Betsy Ross Sue ... Looks like she's about to get her head snipped off!

Quilty-Louise,
I am so sorry that happened. I hope you were able to fix it. ((HUGS))

Well, Betsy is a tough old gal. She know that working with scissors can be dangerous.

Oh my! I never knew anything like those embroidered earrings existed. Well, now you've done it Krystyna... I will have to pick something out and make it. I can see where water soluble stablizer will come in handy. Thanks.

Linda,
Here are two more of my favorites:
Urban Threads
Sew Weird

I just finished my first 2 projects, without a teacher standing over my shoulder (well, if you don't count DH's IT support for the computer). DS is getting married and bride to be is having a shower in August.
Thanks for looking. She is really into her Irish heritage so the Celtic Knot with heart.

Very good work!

Need thoughts and opinions. I have the Brother SE270D Combo and the Brother 700II Embroidery only. I have the 270D set up for regular sewing but also have a new Brother 6000i so I'm considering selling my 270D and using those funds as down payment on a combo or embroidery only machine that has larger than a 5x7 stitching area. BUT, in researching, I'm finding that there is a steep increase in price. I mean like 3 to 4x in price. Anyone have recommendation of one they own that stitches larger than 5x7? Also I want to do backpacks and larger tote bags that are a pain or I can't do with my 700II.

I watch the videos of the new Brother V series but I'm thinking they will be priced in the range of a mid sized car!!!!!

When those new Brother V machines come out, I'll bet there will also be a large number of used machines that are traded in on them and will be good buys. I would suggest you wait and see what you can do on a good used machine after someone else trades up for the newest and latest. There are several that do larger than the 5x7 hoop.

Good suggestion TanyaL, I know there will be people ready and willing to pay for the new ones!! They do seem to have some great features!! I will just have to be patient! LOL

Nanamoms, check out ebay. I just got my brother innovis2800d there (new) and I love it!! My largest hoop for it is 6 x 10.

Nanamoms,
I have received an email from Brother talking about their latest special. http://www.brother-usa.com/HomeSewin...k#.UBlVv02PVbE. I have no idea what price range these fall into (probably high lol) but these 3 machines all have hoop sizes bigger than 5 x 7 and they all come with laptop; PE Design and a $500 discount. And, you probably already have a laptop, and possibly the PE Design, but maybe worth looking into?