Quiltgranny

Hi,

Your quilts are lovely! :thumbup: What a wonderful way to showcase those cute embroidery designs. I've always admired redwork, but I haven't had the strength in my hands to do hand embroidery in the last several years. Now I know what I can do instead! :thumbup:

I got a gently used Bernette Deco 340. Designs can be easily transferred by USB stick. You can learn more about it and see it here:

http://www.berninausa.com/product_de...3-i28-sUS.html

Oh, don't worry... slow and steady as she goes. :lol: I'm a total newbie to these machines.

Thanks so much,

the casual quilter

I've made a few baby quilts with embroidered Noah's Ark theme using Janome embroidery designs in the blocks.
There are some great websites that will give you some great inspiration. Embroidery Library (www.emblibrary.com) is a good one. I'm using some of their designs to help my step-daughter make some Christmas gifts. She'll be embroidering kitchen towels, baby bibs, and some embroidered coffee cup sleeves using designs and the tutorial from their site.

Up North

No I did not do these free motion they were freebies on found on the internet.

Quiltgranny

My goodness, I had no idea such lovely freebies existed out there.

Thanks so much,

Quiltgranny

I was fortunate to already come across the Embroidery Library site you mentioned above. I am very pleased with the quality of their two FREE monthly designs. I just got in on the August one and then it was September. :lol: I found several tutorials there too, but I didn't know there was a separate "Projects" section. Thanks so much for letting me know about this. I can tell I'm going to be there for a l o n g while. :thumbup:

Do you have any other specific sites to recommend? I can imagine you will be helping me as well as many others on our board, too.

Thanks so much for sharing your info with me/us. :thumbup: Have fun helping your daughter with all those Christmas presents.

GwynR

This past June I got an embroidery machine for the first time. I have played with it and made a dozen different patterns at least. They are all done on muslin and I intend to take my practice pieces, add sashing and make them into an everyday quilt for my living room. They are not all perfect, but learning pieces. Hopefully I don't make all the same mistakes again!

Quiltgranny

What a great idea! :thumbup: That way, you're getting the practice AND putting those pieces to use in a lovely way. I hope you'll share your quilt with us one of these days. I'd just LOVE to see it! :D

I stitched out my first practice piece today and forgot to make sure the needle was threaded and wondered why the machine just sat there with the word "Pause" on the screen. I think a picture soon followed, showing me the error of my ways. A machine that tells me when I goof - hey, that's great! :thumbup:

knlsmith

Here's one I did

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-105296-1.htm

I also have another on from Smith Street Designs called Grandeflora Rose that I am planning on making soon.

SUZAG

All of these pictures make me want to figure out my embroidery machine! Beautiful!

QuiltnNan

mostly, i use my emb machine for the labels. i hope to do some redwork soon