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Free design: Winter Rose

February 18, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

This Winter Rose for machine embroidery is a free download from Loralie Designs. Sweet! Get the design.

And many thanks to sewforless.com for pointing out this excellent freebie!… Read More ...

Free Valentine’s Day treats from SWAK

February 9, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

Here’s a great heads-up from SWAKembroidery.com:

If you loved making the peppermint sucker wrappers at Christmastime, you’re sure to love this one just as much!

Easy to make and step by step instructions are included. Great for class parties,

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Inspiration: Gunnel

February 5, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

This little art quilt made me squeal out loud with delight. Gunnel of Gunnel’s Blog transferred a vacation photo to fabric and then used free-motion machine embroidery to bring out the details of the image. What a perfect blend of … Read More ...

Free duckie design from SWAK

January 26, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

This darling rubber-duckie design for filled machine embroidery is free! Produced by Lil Rascals, the 4″ x 4″ design is available from SWAKembroidery.com in eight formats for instant download. While it can’t be used for bulk manufacturing, you can use … Read More ...

Free valentine embroidery pattern from UT

January 26, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

Karline of Urban Threads sends us this heads-up:

Urban Threads has released a sweet new bird-and-love-letter design, FREE through Valentine’s Day! This pretty Victorian-style design can be downloaded for free in formats for machine embroidery, hand embroidery, and digital stock

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New source for hand-embroidery patterns

January 20, 2010 by Denise Felton 1 Comment

elegantYou might already love the work of Marisa Hopkins, aka Elegant Snobbery and Elegant Bloggery. Her online adventures as a working artist/mom of preschoolers make good coffee-time reading for me every day. And her bright, sweet, clever illustrations … Read More ...

New freebie from Urban Threads

January 13, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

volumeCheck out this news from Karline at UT:

Urban Threads just released a new free embroidery design that’ll crank up the volume! A little volume knob that goes all the way up to 11 will make a rad addition to

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Leah says: Break your foot!

January 7, 2010 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

modLeah Day (365 Days of Free Motion Quilting Filler Designs) shows us how to mod an inexpensive darning foot to get 360 degrees of visibility around your needle. She says,

How much visibility you have around your needle

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Tutorial: Embroidered wrap

January 3, 2010 by Denise Felton 1 Comment

wrapUrban Threads shows us how to make an embroidered wrap that lets us cold-natured chicks look fashionable while we stay snug. See the tute.… Read More ...

14 will win Designs in Machine Embroidery

December 13, 2009 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

designsHere’s the latest fabulous Happy Holidays Giveaway from Sewforless.com:

Most embroiderers are familiar with Eileen Roche … and Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine.  If not – you had better start commenting because we are giving away THREE subscriptions to

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Tutorial: Bobbinwork notecards

December 7, 2009 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

bobbinBonnie Lyn McCaffery has posted a tutorial on Bernina Blog for creating these beautiful notecards that incorporate bobbinwork embroidery. The techniques are simple; the results are stunning. See the tute.… Read More ...

Giveaway: A whopper prize package from Sewforless.com

December 2, 2009 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

sewforlessThankful Days Giveaways continue at Sewforless.com! And today’s prize package is a whopper:

  • Amazing Designs’ new Creative Quilting pack, chock-full of gorgeous poinsettia motifs
  • Two sets of eight spools of Medeira metallic threads
  • Klasse Needle Quilting & Sewing Value
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Win 3,900 embroidery designs

November 24, 2009 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

pantoThankful Days Giveaways continue at Sewforless.com. And I couldn’t describe today’s freebie better than they did:

Woah. Now that’s a lot of embroidery designs.  And for one lucky commenter, this stock embroidery design CD will be graciously relocating to

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Free pattern: “Naughty”

November 24, 2009 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

naughtyUrban Threads is treating us to a Very Merry Freebie! The site says,

Getting on Santa’s good list? Way overrated. ‘Tis the season for eggnog and cookies! Here’s a free design as an early little Christmas present to you. Stitch

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Giveaway: Loralie machine-embroidery designs

November 23, 2009 by Denise Felton Leave a Comment

loralieCheck out the latest Thankful Days Giveaway at Sewforless.com. The blog says,

Announcing the newest collection of embroidery designs by famous designer Loralie Harris!  These “Lovely Ladies” are gorgeous and will add some sassiness to aprons, spa wraps and

… Read More ...
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