Sam Solomon, our Creative Director at Designs in Machine Embroidery has been telling me to experiment with crazy quilting. I’ve admired Eileen’s projects in her book, Today’s Crazy Quilting with Your…
If you are using your multi-needle embroidery machine for a hobby or as a business, I’m sure you have some interesting and unique requests. Through my ten years as a…
We receive these gourmet chocolates every year from our good friend, Katherine Artines. It arrives in a specially wrapped box – Eileen and I open the box together. I usually…
I was telling my friend about my work day. “I watched online videos of THE Dream Machine Innov-is XV8500D from Brother. My conclusion: The machine is a dream!” We both…
Did you watch Tuesday’s webinar with our new presenter, Katherine Artines? If you did, I’ll bet you learned a few tricks to make your embroidery stitch flawlessly. Katherine has been…
Create a monogram for Nancy Zieman? The stress mounted as I thought about the assignment. I opened EmbroideryWorks™ software and started experimenting. There’s a unique quality about Nancy Zieman’s initials…
I knew this day would come—but I was certain it was in the very distant future. With Thanksgiving this week, the inevitable couldn’t be avoided any longer. Elfis and Elfira…
I was at the gym this week and decided to increase the weight on the Rotary Calf machine. I added 5 pounds to what I thought was already pretty hefty. …
August is the hottest month of the year in Dallas, Texas. It’s also the time of the year we work on the holiday issue for Christmas! For the Designs in…
Improvise! Create! Have fun! I wanted to create something fun and personalized for my friends. These luggage tags featured in Shelly Smola’s book, All for Me, fit my needs for…