Last year I bought a pattern at Times Square Sewing called Table Graces. This is very easy and fun to do and will make a great wedding or house warming gift. I also think these would be great to do for each holiday. You could have a different set for Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter. They [...]
Yep! Summer is here and backyard games are a big seller. Cornholing is not a bad word – well, it could be – but today we’re talking about the game. It’s kinda like horse shoes. You have two boards set up at a distance from each other. Each board sits at an angle with a [...]
(written by Jason) Alaine figured out a neat trick. She’s using Janome Wet N’ Set stabilizer when making these bottle aprons and wineglass cozies. Towards the end of each job, there’s a step where another piece of fabric has to be added to the underside of the existing project. That doesn’t seem like a big [...]
(written by Jason) Well, good news and bad news! The good news is we decided we like Digitizer Pro enough that we went ahead and paid for it – so now it’s ours. The bad news is that now that we’ve paid for it, we’ve got to keep busy using it so it will pay [...]
Continue reading about Embroidery Digitizing Software – update #4
We took a right turn in our search for a quality digitizing software. We had been trying to get a copy of Digitizer 10000 activated, and we’re having much luck. The last progress we made, Janome wanted us to ship back the hardware key to be replaced. That would be kinda hard to do, since [...]
Continue reading about Embroidery Digitizing Software – Update #3
Things aren’t going so well with the Janome Digitizer 10000 trial. The local Janome rep couldn’t seem to make anything happen, so we talked directly to Janome ourselves. Apparently we need to send the USB key back to them for a replacement to get things working before we can even trial the Click-to-Design. Ironically, the [...]
Continue reading about Embroidery Digitizing Software – Update #2
(written by Jason) Well, so far NOT so good. I got the software all loaded up, downloaded the patches from Janome and got it all patched up as well. I started it up and it seemed to be working, so I moved on to cleaning up the logo that I was going to auto-digitize. Bookmark [...]
Continue reading about Embroidery Digitizing Software – Update #1
(written by Jason) Trying something different today. Alaine got a contract job that needs a custom embroidery design made from their logo, and their logo unfortunately isn’t the simplest to digitize. Our experience with digitizing software hasn’t been that great, but then again it’s been primarily with free or extremely low-cost versions. The open-source movement [...]
Okay I love my thread, but today its all about the variegated. They cost a little more but are worth every penny. Now, JoAnn’s is not the place to shop for this. Even though I practically live there they don’t have much to choose from and that is just sad, very very sad. So I [...]
Today I worked on little aprons. I guess you could use them for Barbies. But for now we’re using them to dress up soap bottles or even a wine or champagne bottle. The entire apron is done “in the hoop”. The embroidery machine does all the work for you. When you’re finished all you have [...]
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