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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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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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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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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…

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Digitizing Lettering & Monograms

Hold Onto Your Hat

by eileenroche on March 5, 2016

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Hat embroidery presents two challenges for the home embroiderer. First, hat embroidery usually entails small lettering.  Second, keeping a hat in a hoop on single-needle, flat bed machine is tricky. …

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6 Helpful Tips for Digitizing Continuous Line Designs

by eileenroche on February 19, 2016

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Recently, I’ve been digitizing quilting designs – continuous line designs in Inspirations’ Perfect Embroidery Pro.  Continuous line designs present unique challenges to digitizers. Since the designs are just one line…

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The Cart Before the Horse

by eileenroche on February 13, 2016

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Last Saturday, I provided step-by-step instructions on intertwining letters in Inspirations’ Perfect Embroidery Pro. I think I should have taught you how to overlap letters first, and then advance to…

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Intertwining Letters

by eileenroche on February 6, 2016

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In the Volume 96 Jan/Feb 2016 issue, you’ll find detailed instructions on how to intertwine letters in a monogram. Let’s review the steps with two built-in fonts in Perfect Embroidery…

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Preparing Files to Send to Janome Machines

by eileenroche on January 30, 2016

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If you’re a Janome user, it seems simple enough to send a design you created in Inspirations’ software to your Janome machine. But there’s one more necessary step if you’re…

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An Expert’s Tip on Text on a Path

by eileenroche on January 16, 2016

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Leave it to Inspirations Education Consultant Ashley Jones to teach me another shortcut on digitizing text on a path. Previously, she taught me (and you) how to instantly place text…

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