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Multi-Needle Monday: Custom Monogrammed Dining Room Chairs

by Marie Zinno on April 11, 2016

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My latest order from an interior decorator consisted of 6 large monograms embroidered on expensive damask fabric for dining room chairs. The monogram is created by the designer and is…

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Batter Up!

by eileenroche on April 9, 2016

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It’s baseball season! Can’t you hear the swing of the bat and the ‘thwack’ when leather hits wood? Smell the peanuts? Even though I never played, I still think summer…

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Become a Social Butterfly! Part 2

by DIME by OESD on April 6, 2016

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Last week I explored a special offer in an ad featured in the current issue of Designs in Machine Embroidery. If you missed the blog, click here. When you spend…

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Multi-Needle Monday: Quick Snap Hoops and the Scanner Function

by Marie Zinno on April 4, 2016

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We get many questions regarding a variety of topics for our Multi-needle Monday blog. Last week a customer wrote to ask about using the scanning feature on the 10 needle…

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Pretty in Pink

by eileenroche on April 2, 2016

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I finally found some time to stitch a sample of the applique flower that we’ve been discussing over the past few Software Saturday posts. I selected a pink hand-dyed fabric…

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Become a Social Butterfly!

by DIME by OESD on March 30, 2016

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While my team and I were putting the latest issue of Designs in Machine Embroidery together, an advertisement from Embroidery Online caught my attention. Did you see it? Here’s a…

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Multi-Needle Monday: Add Embroidery to Almost Anything!

by eileenroche on March 28, 2016

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If you are a Designs in Machine Embroidery subscriber you might have seen my current project in volume 97. However, many readers who follow the DIME blogs might not subscribe…

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Room for Improvement

by eileenroche on March 26, 2016

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Last week, I showed you how to how to draw a simple flower design in Inspirations’ Perfect Embroidery Pro and turn it into a large applique quilt block. I ended…

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Need an Embroidery Miracle? Then You Need Friends in High Places!

by eileenroche on March 23, 2016

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Where do you turn when you need a solution to an embroidery dilemma? It started innocently enough with “Honey, can you embroider my name and phone number on this strap?”…

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Quilt Block: Easy Steps to Big Blocks

by eileenroche on March 19, 2016

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Oversized applique quilts make a big impact and you don’t need a giant sewing field to get the look. Create one quarter of the block and then duplicate it to…