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Cutwork Embroidery Special – ‘Cutwork Bells’

Published on January 28, 2007 in Applique Embroidery Designs, Cutwork Embroidery Designs and Machine Embroidery Designs.

cutwork-bells.jpgCheck out the decorative bells available for you through the cutwork art of embroidery. This is available for view at Secrets Of. You can navigate your way by choosing “Everything for Embroidery” clicking through “A Stitch and A Half” and selecting “Decorative Bells Embroidery Designs”. Aren’t they a beauty? These are shaped in the form of bells and could be used as table centerpieces or as part of your festive decorations. Some of them are available as appliques and the information on applique embroidery designs would come in handy here. All of the embroideries come in hoops in sizes of 4X4, 5X7 or 6X10.

Check out the 5X7 table centerpiece. The stitch count is 9614, height at 3.8 inches and width 6.6 inches. These are available in all machine embroidery formats namely ART, HUS, PES, PCS, SEW, VIP, DST JEF and the information on pc-machine embroidery would certainly help you understand the various formats. Have a great time livening up your decorations.

Five Knitting Secrets For You!

Published on January 14, 2007 in Applique Embroidery Designs.

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My friend, Sarah (of Knitting Tips fame) ran a contest for the best knitting secrets and she was flooded with some great tips on knitting embroidery. The best 5 ones are as below :

Loose and Easy – All knitting work should be done putting this in the background. Sumi writes, ‘I keep the first row tension loose and easy by casting on over two needles, but adding the 2nd needle only after the slipstitch.’ She notes you have to be careful when you are ready to knit to pull out the 2nd needle. Pull out the first one and Oooops! You’ll lose your first cast-on stitch.’

Manage Color Chaos – It is imperative that one manages the various colors that are available for knitting. Chrystine Martin writes, ‘knitting with hand dyed yarns?’ Be sure to use two hanks – alternate every 2 rows, as if you were making stripes. This will keep the color repeat random and not show where you change hanks.’

Magic Row Tracking – Anita Grosso sounds like someone who brings her knitting with her everywhere because sometimes she knits without bringing her knitting counters or pencil/paper. (!) This is the kind of tip that is just too clever for words. She writes, ‘when I need to put my work down, say on the 23rd row, I take my right needle and insert it into the 23rd stitch on the left needle as I stow it away. When I pick it up, count to the 23rd stitch, VOILA! I know what row I’m on.’

Power Knitting - Many knitters gain speed, symmetry, and same length by knitting, say either both sleeves or both fronts at the same time. But would you like to knit THREE times as fast? Tina Lee has found a way — she knits three skinny eyelash yarn scarves on the same l-o-n-g needles. She writes, ‘with 14″ straight knitting needles, I cast on 16 stitches of Skein 1. Push the stitches to the very end of the needle.’ Rinse and repeat for Skeins 2 and 3. This shortcut gives you more knitting than turning time, plus the scarves will have uniform tension and be the same length. Just remember to keep the yarns separate from each other (maybe even keep them in ziploc bags?)’

Binding off Viva La Crochet! – Lisa Hanratty combines a little crochet action while binding off. She substitutes a same-size crochet hook for the right needle. It makes it so easy! Instead of passing the first knit stitch over the second, you just pull the second stitch through the loop. I tried it and it turbo-charged my finishing.

That’s about it for the secret tips…If you want to read a good book covering various aspects of knitting, you must read “Knitting Tips”

Miles O’ Smiles Applique Embroidery Designs!

Published on December 18, 2006 in Applique Embroidery Designs and Machine Embroidery Designs.

20061218-applique-embroidery-designs.jpgIntroducing the ‘Miles O Smiles‘ colorful applique embroidery designs. Aren’t they a treat to watch? The best part is that you could purchase your own custom set and download immediately. All the designs are available in dst, hus, pes, art, vip, jef, csd, exp formats and are available in sets of 8 applique designs costing 30 dollars. The information given in machine embroidery designs would come in handy here.

I found these designs strikingly similar to the iron-on appliques that we had posted in the month of May. Apart from the two hand impressions which were really cute, I took a fancy to the pattern you see next to this post. What I liked best is that all the 6 items which includes the tree, cloud, sun, chair, sea and umbrella were well fitted into one small applique in a beautiful manner.

These embroideries could be stitched or used as iron-on’s on frocks, handbags or T-shirts.

Animal Embroidery Designs – Kids Special!

Published on November 26, 2006 in Animal Embroidery Designs and Applique Embroidery Designs.

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For all the kids and kids related clothing, here is the surprise resource for you. Kids Travel Zone is specially focused on cute animals which can be used as beautiful appliques on all childrens garments and related items like bibs and dinnner cloths.

I liked all of them especially the camel and the colourful frogs. But what was really eyecatching was the bull. The expressions of the bull came out quite clearly in such a simple manner. The expression on the face has been remarkably embroidered. This would make a cute applique on T-shirts of small boys. For girls, one could use the camels or the various bunnies that we have at Kids Travel Zone.

Amazing “Express Yourself” Embroidery Designs!

Published on November 9, 2006 in Applique Embroidery Designs.

Front CoverThis is truly amazing! Creating freestyle stitches by hand and the end result looks like paint brush strokes. Whether you love hand embroidery or not, this book is a must see – Painting with Stitches: Creating Freestyle Embroidery by Hand.

The creative side of embroidery designing at its best! According to the author of the book, Sue Dave, techniques or materials should not obsess the designer. Nor should there be a right or a wrong way of embroidering. Expressing oneself through the design is most important. The technique or materials are only means to this end. In todays world of embroidery designing, such work comes through like a breath of fresh air. The principle she follows is: “Feel free to break rules that you dont like.”

Creative Applique Embroidery Designs By Deanne

Published on October 31, 2006 in Embroidery Design Web Sites, Applique Embroidery Designs and Machine Embroidery Designs.

Think creative, think Deanne Forrest. She is an original artist of the artwork and digitizer of embroidery designs. With a lot of support from her family she started Angelic Designs, which is a display of her unique contribution in various categories of embroidery like sewing, quilting and applique. A special mention of her work is that it stands out from the rest of the crowd.

The website has classified the patterns into sets – each of which rests on a particular theme. The striking themes that “wowed” me were Bathtub, Tooth Fairy and Monster Mania – all under applique. All these embroidery designs are done using machine embroidery techniques and are available in PES, HUS, DST, XXX, VIP, JEF, PCS, SEW formats. The information on machine embroidery would come in handy here.

Home Machine Embroidery Digitized Software For You – Design Authority

Published on August 16, 2006 in Embroidery Design Web Sites, Applique Embroidery Designs, Artista Embroidery Designs, Brother Embroidery Designs, Free Embroidery Designs, Hand Embroidery Designs and Machine Embroidery Designs.

If you are interested in converting computer generated images, camera digitized files and clip arts into machine embroidery designs, you have reached the right place. I have been getting a few requests on queries related to converting pictures into embroidery designs and I hope that this post gives some insight into the process.

After doing some research, we found one software that is easy to install, easy to use and most important – easy to understand. Just THREE steps required! Design Authority is a home machine embroidery software, which needs Windows 98, Pentium III computer to work with. The final output can be exported to Brother(.pes), Elna(.sew), Janome(.sew), Melco(.exp), Tajima(.dst), Toyota(.10O), Barudan(.hduxx), Happy(.tap), Sunstar(.sst), Pfaff(.ksm), Juki(amsm3), Mitsubishi(,1xx), Komtekct(.cem) There is a section on free downloadable embroidery designs, where you can download samples of standard fill, advanced fill and photostitch embroideries! (You could also go to Diana portrait to see the art of photostitch hand embroidering.) The ship you see next to this post is a free standard fill embroidery design converted from a picture and is available in all machine formats.

Some Unique Indian Embroidery Designs For You!

Published on July 15, 2006 in Applique Embroidery Designs, Hand Embroidery Designs and Indian Embroidery Designs.

Check out these Indian applique patterns on parasols beautifully handcrafted on handloom cotton fabric.

Some of the unique points to note are that these applique embroidery designs are made of colorful and multi pattern cotton fabric and are handmade by artisans from Pipilli (meaning Papillion) in Orissa in India.

I found this interesting product description which I am reproducing verbatim: “Applique in Orissa, India is an old temple art, which has been refined to a perfection. A fine example of the craft is the enormous applique canopies above the reigning deity of Puri, Lordjagannath. Applique art is the process of cutting coloured cloth into shapes of animals, birds, flowers, leaves and other decorative motifs and stitching them on to a piece of cloth that can ultimately be used as a lamp shade, a hand bag or even a garden umbrella. The village of Pipli, close to Bhubaneswar, is the site of beautiful applique work, created by artists, quite a few of whom have won national awards for their crafts. Applique’, which is a French term, is a technique by which the decorative effect is obtained by superposing patches of coloured fabrics on a basic fabric, the edges of the patches being sewn in some form of stitchery. It is distinct from what is known as patch work in which small pieces of cut fabrics are usually joined side by side to make a large piece of fabric or for repairing a damaged fabric. Though the form is not unknown in other parts of India, it is Orissa and specially in Pipli that the craft has a living and active tradition continuing over centuries.”

Chinese Applique Embroidery Designs

Published on June 11, 2006 in Applique Embroidery Designs and Hand Embroidery Designs.

Introducing applique embroidery designs straight from China. Shanghai Sungod Dailyuse Hardware Imp and Exports of China got in touch with us recently to introduce their line of applique lace embroidery design products. All these are done using hand embroidery techniques. Each country has its own unique touch in their embroidery designs and all the 11 embroidery patterns I came across were eye stoppers. (You can find one of them next to this post).

The company supplies a selection of handcraft applique products in many sizes (12 x 13 cm, 22 x 20 cm, 9.5 x 9.5 cm, 25 x 23.5 cm, etc.) and various shapes (flower, butterfly, heart etc.) with high quality and cometitive price. They are now continuing to make non-stop effort in Quality Control and Products Research & Development in order to keep the step of fashion.

If you are interested in more information on these embroidery designs, please use the “Contact” button above.

Fancy Flip Flop Applique Embroidery Designs!

Published on May 10, 2006 in Applique Embroidery Designs and Flip Flop Embroidery Designs.

Some colourful flip flop embroideries by Carol Howard are awaiting you at Sew Many Designs. Really good ones!

What exactly is a flip flop embroidery design? Flip flop embroidery designs are basically beach designs tending to focus more on slippers. This particular set of designs at ‘SewMany’ are applique machine embroidery designs and are designed to match the 5X7 hoop. The information on applique embroidery designs should come in handy to understand the various usages of these patterns.

Just check one of the samples besides this post. What strikes one about the pair of flip flops is the colour patterns which are in striking contrast – making it an attractive couple.

For those who order, you would receive the full color hand smocking plate by Carol with complete instructions to ease your job. All the best!

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