Monday, March 1, 2010

New Embroidery Fonts for Festive Occasions

We're excited to offer 2 new embroidery fonts, designed especially for Wedding ceremonies, and other festive occasions. One of the alphas is modern, and one - in antique style.

This new alphabet is in Medieval style. It's designed for 4x4 hoops, and comes in 3 sizes. It's ideal to stitch on small gifts, handkerchiefs and various elegant items that ask for a touch of antique luxury, to complete their looks.
The letters are in satin stitch, on background of gentle running stitch flowers. These letters are perfect for stitching 1-letter initials ->


 
Swirly Initials Font

This modern-style initials font is awesome for personalizing wedding items, like hankies and ring bearer pillows. It's also great for "new baby" stuff, including baby blankets and totes.
Each letter sits on an elegant swirly background, and looks complete on it's own. Perfect for 1-letter initials. The whole font can be seen here ->



Which stabilizer to pick, when stitching on small, or hard-to-hoop items? Personally, I prefer to use one of these 2 types:
1. For items that can be later washed - Water Soluble fabric;
2. In other cases - Peel-N-Stick backing. This stabilizer is now available in additional pack sizes.

Lace Wedding Hankies

We're enormously happy to start carrying real, 100% authentic Paulen lace handkerchiefs. These hankies are truly beautiful, fit great for weddings, and can serve as small gifts to other occasions as well.


They're made in Germany, 100% cotton. The quality is fantastic, and the lace decor - exceptionally beautiful!

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Year of Golden Tiger

Tiger is one of the most beautiful and powerful creatures of animal world. Many Asian cultures adopted it as a symbol of courage, power, passion and royalty. We wish you all of these features combined, for this year, and forever.

We've also prepared a small New Year gift for you - a trio of two tiger designs and a calligraphy. To download the designs, please click on the appropriate format for your machine, and pick up the "Save" option. Please none that each of the three designs requires a 5x7-inch hoop (their height is 4.9").

If you like this free design, please VOTE FOR US. This will help others find us, and allow us to keep growing. Thanks!

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These designs look absolutely amazing when embroidered using metallic thread. You may get the most suitable colors in our "Classic Colors" metallic thread kit.





You may find many many more of free embroidery designs in our freebie archive.

Romantic Designs of Paris

There are 2 new collections ready, especially for Valentine's Day. These designs feature various Parisian motifs, as Paris is considered to be the city of love and romance. Yet, these design sets are also great for everyday use - for travel album scrap-booking, as well as for kitchen decor. 
Both of these sets are mainly in red-work technique, with minor elements of applique. They stitch out great on nearly any types of fabric, even most tricky ones.
The new Paris collections are designed with some applique elements. You might be well familiar with this technique, and if not - be sure to try it! This small new article will guide you to get familiar with applique. To stitch appliques fast and also enjoy the process, consider using these supplies:

- Applique Scissors

- Spray Adhesive

Friday, January 8, 2010

A Pair of Pink-Striped Pillows

These beautiful pillows in pink & white cotton with stripes, were sent to us by Bobbie Berry.

Bobbie, THANK YOU!!!

What's interesting about this pair of pillows is that although sewn from the same base fabric, one is elegant, and one - in quite distinguishable country style, due to the way they're trimmed, and because of the embroideries.

The elegant pillow is trimmed with lace and features an initial from Heirloom Roses font.

The country-style pillow has a neat cotton trim, and an applique initial in the middle. The letter is from Country Wheat Font. Take a look:


Two Pairs of Chocolate Punch Towels

The photos of these fluffy towels, embroidered with Chocolate Punch font initials, were kindly sent to us by QuirkyKim Banta from A Creativ Eye.
Many Thanks!

QuirkyKim embroidered these towels for her brothers-in-law. One pair is white on white, the other is pale brown on white. Take a look: