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Design Your Own Fabric!
Have you always wanted to design your own fabric? Well now you can! Let me show you how easy it is to create print-on-demand fabric. My Fabric Design software is Inspirations’ latest exclusive offering to Inspiration dealers. Although you can learn about it here, you’ll have to purchase it from your local Inspirations dealer. Let’s […] Read more…
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Target Rulers
I use target rulers to quickly find the middle of a quilt block, pocket, placket or other embroiderable area. Once placed on the fabric, I slip a target sticker into the hole, aligning the crosshairs. Then I confidently remove the target ruler and hoop the fabric. Once the hoop is attached to the machine, I […] Read more…
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Multi-needle Monday: Mistakes Happpen to All of Us
I am sure you get frustrated when you embroider a special gift and you stitch the name incorrectly. Maybe you used the wrong color thread, stitched the design upside down or placed the name or logo crooked or not centered. Whatever the case, we all do it, some people more than others. The majority of […] Read more…
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Double Decker Applique Letters
Since we’re celebrating 100 issues of Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine, I thought I would share one of my favorite projects: curved, double decker applique letters. I love everything about this project: the teal hoodie (so comfy), the split applique (trendy) and the double layer of applique (the perfect fabric combo: white felt outline and […] Read more…
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Celebrating 100 Issues!
What does it take? They say if you choose a job you love, you’ll never have to work a day in your life. But if you take a closer look, even your favorite hobby can become frustrating. There are the days the needle breaks, bird’s nests inexplicably happen and you make bad thread color choices […] Read more…
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Multi-needle Monday: On the Edge Baby Blanket Embroidery
I would like to share with you one of my favorite gift items to embroider; on the edge baby blanket embroidery. The purchased minky dot baby blanket is personalized on the top and bottom satin trim borders with the baby’s name and birth date. The quick, easy and practical way to embroider the edges is […] Read more…
Multi-Needle Mondays!
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Multi-needle Monday: Mistakes Happpen to All of Us
I am sure you get frustrated when you embroider a special gift and you stitch the name incorrectly. Maybe you used the wrong color thread, stitched the design upside down or placed the name or logo crooked or not centered. Whatever the case, we all do it, some people more than others. The majority of […] Read more…
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Multi-needle Monday: On the Edge Baby Blanket Embroidery
I would like to share with you one of my favorite gift items to embroider; on the edge baby blanket embroidery. The purchased minky dot baby blanket is personalized on the top and bottom satin trim borders with the baby’s name and birth date. The quick, easy and practical way to embroider the edges is […] Read more…
Software Saturdays!
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Design Your Own Fabric!
Have you always wanted to design your own fabric? Well now you can! Let me show you how easy it is to create print-on-demand fabric. My Fabric Design software is Inspirations’ latest exclusive offering to Inspiration dealers. Although you can learn about it here, you’ll have to purchase it from your local Inspirations dealer. Let’s […] Read more…
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I Heart Puffy!
Meet Inspirations Education Consultant Melisa Nisius, this week’s guest blogger. She’s just as passionate about embroidery as you are so I thought it was a good idea for Melisa to share a recent experience with you. You can apply the techniques she outlines to your favorite designs or download the free-for-a-limited-time heart design by clicking […] Read more…
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Underlay Options
In my last post, I discussed underlay in general terms. Today, I’d like to show how to control underlay with just a couple mouse clicks in Inspirations’ Perfect Embroidery Pro. Let’s take a look at a butterfly from Inspirations’ Butterfly Majesty Collection, design #98723718. If you don’t have this collection, open a design with fill, […] Read more…
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Quilting Your Row by Row – Part 2
Part Two Last week, Rebecca Robinson, owner of Sew Suite Studio, a DIME Authorized Dealer in Lexington, SC, showed you how to quilt your Row By Row quilt strips. She used Inspiration’s My Quilt Embellisher to create the stippling. This week, Rebecca kicks it up a notch by changing the quilting to a star-shaped […] Read more…