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Freestanding Lace 5
Okay, I’m really proud of this one! You may recall that I said I can’t draw. (See Freestanding Lace 1) To make these earrings, I started with some basic shapes, drawn with the Create Circle tool and the Create True… Read More ›
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Gradient Complex Fill
It’s time to stop playing around and get serious about Christmas! When my oldest grandson tuned three, I gave him a present that was very difficult to wrap. I made him a pillowcase and put all his presents in it… Read More ›
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Freestanding Lace 4
These earrings were a special request for a third grade girl. On the surface, this sounded really easy. All she wanted was a Christmas tree. How hard could it be? I needed to work at a much smaller scale, about… Read More ›
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Freestanding Lace 3
I got a little distracted on my Christmas decoration project. (See Free Standing Lace 1 and Free Standing Lace 2.) I finished digitizing the Y and corrected the O so they would connect (did you figure it out?), but I… Read More ›
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Freestanding Lace 2
Several days later I came back to work on the O and discovered that I had made another rookie mistake. I couldn’t remember what font I had used or what size I had made it. Sigh… Generations has another nice… Read More ›
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Freestanding Lace 1
In one of the recorded webinars, Holly suggested that DQS students might want to wait a while to attempt free standing lace, so of course I jumped in with both feet. I should probably start off by explaining that I… Read More ›
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Why Digitize?
Why was I interested in digitizing? I really don’t know. I’ve had my embroidery machine for about two years now, and use it mostly for gifts for family and friends. (I initially bought it so I could add embroidery to… Read More ›
