Love your Quilt. Did you do it all on your Husqvarina (fabric and all or just the quilting designs?)

Thank you so much, I did it all on my Husqvarnia, including the quilting.

Your Ellegante
 

Sorry to hear about your Mom and her stroke. I hope she is doing better now. What do you like or want to talk about embroidery?Do you do FSl? I like doing small sachet bags for lavender.

labtechkty,
The quilt is absolutely gorgeous. Did you do the digitizing? Love it.

Thread article
 

I just saw this on another group and thought it was interesting. Using metallic threads.
http://academyofquilting.com/library...icult-threads/

Sometimes I double my stabilizer to make it thicker then hoop it, and then put the embroidery fabric on the hoop using the "fix" method. if I have a lot of stitches in the embroidery, I put a piece of thin muslin over the stabilizer, it seems to keep it from tearing when there are many stitched in the embroidery. I'm new to the board, so hope this helps.

Thank you. I purchased the design. I can't recalled the name of the company right off hand but can look it up if your interested.

Regarding stabilizers--if you are using the right one for your embroidery you should only need 1 layer. The more stitches require a need a medium to heavy cut away. If you don't want the backing to show, try a piece of organza. It is see through and will hold embroidery perfectly.
Also, the backing needs to be framed in the hoop with the fabric. It defeats the purpose the have it sitting underneath.
Hope this doesn't sound like a teacher but I use the excuse that I taught embroidery classes for some years and earned my living as a commercial embroiderer.
Wendy G.

Do you mean to use the organza instead of a stabilizer? I have used organza on top of some designs and with water soluble underneath when I do some of the lace designs. I have always had a separate stabilizer underneath, wither a tear away or the water soluble.

Yes, that is exactly what I mean. Try and tear organza and you will find that it will NEVER tear. I also use it for cutwork, hooping it under the fabric, doing a running stitch around the cut out area, carefully trimming away the top layer and completing the design. When finished, use a stencil cutter to melt away the organza and you will have perfect cutwork that will never pull apart as the stitches are being held by the organza. With wash out stabilizers, they go even under the stitches leaving nothing to support.
I'm afraid, that I am a little paranoid about stabilizers as without the proper backing, the embroidery is useless. Hope this helps.
Meant to add, that twinkle organza works best! It is the most stable.
Wendy

Wendy,
Where can the twinkle organza be purchased? Do you have an online source?
Thanks.

Ah, yes, where to get it. I just did a search online and apparently Amazon.com has white, Fabric.com has it and so did ebay. I have never used any of these sources for Sparkle Organza so can't recommend. But I think when I was teaching and got a chance to go into Joanne's fabrics and bought it. I just checked and Nancy's notions also has it and probably the shipping will be the most reasonable. Hope this helps, and if you have any problems using, you can send me a private email.
Wendy G.

Don't understand why you haven't had success with your HV Scandinavia 300; I have had mine for 9 years and have done much with the 4x4 hoop and the Plus hoop, even on toilet paper!!! I save designs onto the blank card I purchased and add and delete designs as I need. Hoping you'll soon get much success from your machine. I wish the machine could use larger hoops, but as far as the machine is concerned for how it sews and embroiders, I would never trade it....I would save up $$ to purchase another wth the larger hoop but will never give up the 300.

Very interested - when you have the time I would really appreciate it.
Thanks

Glad to do it.. laurassewingstudio.com, look for her wedding ring designs, she has some others on her site that I want to do, but just haven't gotten around to them yet..have a good one..

I bought my sparkle organza from Hobby Lobby. Comes in many colors. It is nylon, which was what was recommended at an embroidery art quilt class I attended. Nylon melts beautifuly. Polyester organza was not recommended as it melts with globs. Hard to find nylon only, but I was excited to find so many colors--sparkle and non-sparkle at HL. So far HL is the only store I can find nylon-only organza.

Looking to do embroidery with a bernette chicago. Cant read bernina emb. Extension on usb stick. Anyone know what extension to download designs on usb stick?

With the Ellageo you can make your designs either larger or smaller than the original pattern. If your design is too dense try making it bigger to see if that will thin it out. DON't sell your Ellageo. Even if you only use it for sewing it is a fantastic machine with lots of great features. I wouldn't take a new car for mine.

I don't have this machine but I certainly agree with keeping it!! Iclang will one day want to give embroidery another try and then what? If the machine is paid for, you can only lose $$ by getting rid of it. Sounds like the machine dealer needs to work with her.

I learned everyhing I know about machine spembroidery by reading the boards, joining appropriate Yahoo! Groups, websites, etc. My dealer was useless and I did not wanpt to take time out driving the 45 minutes each way to get to them. Always learning "online" even 7 years later! Love having my embroidery as an option. I am predominately a quilt piecer, btw.

Sandy

I,too, am a self taught machine embroiderer. I would definitely NOT sell the Ellageo. I just purchased a practically brand new Brother 6700D at an estate sale. Feel like I almost stole it! I had a Brother 1250D so this is quite a step up for me but I love it so far. Sandy, what embroidery forums do you belong to? I gather so much info from this site on quilting that I would like to join an embroidery forum. Always willing to learn! Guess that's why I taught school for 26 years!

I have join many yahoo groups but wasn't getting as much "out" of
these groups as I wanted (and I am not exactly sure what I was wanting).

The embroidery group I am part of now is at "Designs By Sick"
This just works for ME (nothing wrong with any of the others just wasn't for me).

About a month ago I asked my father in law for help in creating
an Access database for my embroidery designs. Since that is the
kind of work he does I knew it would be a "breeze" for him to help
me arrange the fields into a format I thought would work good for
me when it came to searching.


What he is doing is blowing my mind away. He is literately writing
special code and "building" the database from the back end. He worked
on that ALL weekend (Memorial Day weekend) while we was at the cabin.


He didn't call it "work" he called it a "fun task".


Dang I love my wonderful father in law! I am excited to see the finished product.

Really awesome !!!

Lucky girl, I would love him too.....it is a problem searching for special designs..it takes plenty of time for me

When you have OVER 175,000 designs from MANY (104+) different
designers/websites you need all the help you can get.

The database dad is building for me is going to be searchable through
several (3-4) different ways.

Lucky you He must be one great father in law.

I have the Brother PE500 and I love it! I have NO problem finding plenty of cheap and free things to put on baby items for my grand daughter. HOWEVER, I have started doing applique patterns and I am finding many of the DL is NOT exactly same as the applique. I have not ruined anything but I have sure messed up a few things. Another thing I found out you need to do ball point on certain items as it will not stitch well. I have learned the tear away stabilizer doesn't do well with onesies or stretch type material. Anyone else doing onesies? Or applique? Love to hear from you.

I have a Bernina 830, I cannot afford £1000 for the embroidery software are there any other cheaper designs that I could use or down load that are compatible? I have a laptop with windows 7 I'm not a Mac user .

Louise that so wonderful to hear! Like you I have close the amount of designs that you have from several sites. At this time I have them on a usb flash drive that has a large memory capacity. Let us know the outcome!

Bjhumes, I have used iron-on stabilizer. Knit fabric tends to stretch though at times I have also used Sulky spray on the cutaway for knits. For onesies since they are small I have found that using the iron on one (they do peel off after the design) works. Also I used Floriani no mesh since it is soft on the child's skin. There are others here that may have other ideas as well.

Stella, there are several embroidery software options available that are not nearly that expensive. I use Embrilliance myself, which cost less than $200 for the basic software (it's really not all that basic, but there are other modules you can add over time). I also recall seeing someone say that there is at least one option that is free, but I don't know what that might be. But honestly, if you aren't going to do any changes to your embroidery, you can just buy the Embrilliance thumbnail program to see what you have. You don't really NEED software just to download designs.

Yippee!!!!!!

My FIL just called me said he has my database ready for trial run #1.

He will talk me through everything see if there are any changes I want
made.

Now for the email to get here.

That is great Louise! Hope it comes out the way you needed it.

Messed up stitching
 

Some time ago I posted something I read about when you get a bird's nest while stitching, remove the foot to get the embroidery out of the machine without too much damage. Fortunately, I have not had the chance to give it a try - until yesterday.
I didn't have a bird's nest, but the embroidery came up at one corner, and somehow got caught over the foot and the machine kept stitching. What a mess! I unscrewed the needle, but it couldn't come out so I unscrewed the foot. Took some doing but I did manage to get the whole mess out of the machine.
I wasn't able to save the piece, but it was so much easier to release it from the machine.
I didn't like the colors anyway!

I have been working with my new database for a couple weeks, and
am now on version 1.05-bld01.

Only 78 designs have been entered so far. It is going to take me a LONGGGGG
time to get all my designs entered. But I KNOW that there are MANY MANY MANY
duplicate designs that I will be deleting so hopefully I can bring the # of designs
down, plus I am tossing all the cheap looking designs.

I have a Brother Innovis 1200. I use it mainly for my quilt labels and personalization on projects for my grandkids. I would like to do more but I can not get my computer and machine to recognize each other. My teacher at my classes could not either. I would love a group, especially seeing all these cute quilts. I already own tons of pez files!

Jratcliff that must've been a nightmare but glad you got it out! In a month I'm going to take my Babylock Spirit for its maintenance.

following and book marking. need to learn how to use my janome 6600P using more embroid. stictches.

Stella, why don't you start with <cite style="FONT-STYLE: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">http://www.wingssystems.com/index.php/products/myeditor/ It is free, and you can view images of your downloaded designs, change formats & colors, alter size, rotate, cut away parts you don't like, merge 2 designs together--and much more. Or you could try Pulse Ambassador-- </cite>
It shows the image, changes colors, reformats, prints w/all thread info.
Free viewer <cite style="FONT-STYLE: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">http://www.sharewareconnection.com/pesview.htm</cite> or

a free viewer from Embroidermodder....there are several more but I like My Editor and Pulse when I choose not to connect my P E Design software. Or you can try some 30 day trials before you consider buying. There's Embird,

http://www.sandscomputing.com/id47.html (sewwhatpro & other choices) If you only want to see images of your designs, I have Embrilliance Thumbnailer and I love it, because all my designs are images all the time...there are many formats you can set it to display, and it only cost about $40. When I unzip a folder with many designs, it shows the image of the one that is my format--the rest are just icons. Try the free stuff before making an expensive decision--it all depends on what you want to do right now!
OOPS...unless your machine uses the .srt format. In that case you will have to buy the Bernina software to do anything, or so I have heard.

Has anyone embroidered on a velvet like fabric?

Do you have some good tips for doing this?

I haven't but I know that emblibrary.com has some tutorials (of course). I do know they make a heat soluable stabilizer for fabric that you don't want to get wet. Good luck, wish I knew more.