Category — embroidery

What would be more perfect for Valentine’s Day with your sweetheart than fluffy towels, a bottle of wine, and a warm candlelight bubble bath? You could even applique this romantic design on to a matching nightie, or cover for your wine bottle. Order this project today and celebrate in style!

You will receive a zip file with an embroidery file of your chosen machine format, a  PDF of instructions for stitching the applique, and another PDF including photos that make this romantic project quick and easy — even for a beginner!

This project is available in the following formats:
ART, DST, HUS, JEF, PES, SEW, and XXX for only $6.50!

Format

ART DST HUS JEF PES SEW XXX

Lynne’s embroidery is amazing! She chose the designs called Marcia’s Ornamental Gardens by Pfaff#398, added a gorgeous batik, and completed a wonderful family heirloom which she has named “Ornamental Beauty”!

There are 19 designs for the 5×5 hoop, and the way Lynne combined all of them to create this beautiful quilt is simply breathtaking!

Make sure to click on each picture, and then click on it again to see a larger version….

Imagine my surprise when I received these beautiful pictures in the mail!

Carol used the Pennsylvania Dutch embroidery collection to make beautiful coasters for her friends. I really like the way these turned out, and I just love the hexagon shape that she used for them. Fantastic!

There are many patterns to choose from these days that are geared toward busy schedules, and this cute quilt from Connecting Threads is one of the best. It features owls that are bright and happy, and the Hooterville kit has all the fabric you need to hand-applique each owl and tree. It’s designed by Linda Hohag of Brandywine Designs.

Needing a gift quickly, my friend Linda decided to make the center border from the same fabric as the outer border. Hearts are quilted in the center border, and stars are quilted around the outer edge of the quilt.

To take it one step further, the owls and trees were digitized so each block could be machine embroidered. This gift was finished in a flash! Details were quilted on the owls and trees, and stippling fills all of the white areas. This quilt was fast and fun! Make sure to click each image twice, so you can see the largest version.

The “Song of the Heart” collection of designs from Madsen Originals really captured my imagination! These designs are exquisite, and I would never think of quilting over top of them!

I wanted to have the white background area stay nice and flat, so I couldn’t just leave it empty. I decided to record my stitches as I quilted right next to each design. Then, I echoed my stitches 13 times for each block, at one third of an inch apart. This filled the entire background of the block. I used the Trim function to remove the excess stitches that I didn’t want, which left me with just enough stitches to have everything lay nice and flat. I added a little bit of stippling freehand inside of the hearts.

Priscilla wanted all four borders around the outside to appear as if it were one border, and to be lightly quilted so it would not detarct from the embroidery designs — good choice!

Some of my favorite quilts incorporate both piecing and embroidery or applique. Having that “little bit of extra” in certain blocks can create a real challenge — and I LOVE a challenge!

This quilt features very detailed embroidery designs. Each stitch is perfect! I’m not a fan of quilting over top of embroidery, if it’s possible to avoid it. I would rather do something special in the background, especially when the design that’s quilted serves the purpose of adding to the embroidery, and not detracting from it. The design that I used is from Stitch Happy, and is called Vortex. I think it really gives a feeling of motion to these little boys (as if little boys don’t already create enough motion! LOL!).

This embroidery is from a collection named “Boys at Play”, and is available from Priscilla Madsen of Madsen Originals.

This embroidery collection from Priscilla Madsen of Madsen Originals is one of my favorites. If you look closely, you can see beautiful birds in each of the embroideries. Priscilla wanted quilting that would emphasize the gorgeous fabric she used for this quilt. Here is a screen shot of the layout that we used:

Each embroidered block has a small stipple, combined with a little bit of stitching following the embroidery to hold the layers together. If you click on each of the pictures, you can see close-ups of the designs that are included in this collection called “Calligraphy Art”. You can also see the back of the quilt, which shows the designs that were placed in the blocks that were not embroidered.

Nine elegant designs, combining the best of applique and embroidery. There are so many possibilities with these designs! Table cloths, napkins, placemats, sweatshirts, quilts, sweaters, cookie tins, gift boxes and tags, pillows…….. These designs were featured in the November/December 2006 issue of Designs in Machine Embroidery Magazine. To order these designs as a collection, click here.  Each design is available as a single, and you can order  here.

Below are actual stitch-outs of the designs — you click click on each image to see a larger picture.

Have your own little piece of the heartland! This collection of six Pennsylvania Dutch motifs looks wonderful on table linens, pillows, curtains, and many other places! Each design fits in a four by four hoop. Click on the pictures for close-up detail of the actual stitch-outs. Click here to order these designs for your embroidery machine! Or, click here to order the designs AND the quilt pattern!

Welcome to our own little island get-away‚ Under the Sea! This collection of eight wonderful sea creatures would love to swim into your life. Each applique fits in a five by seven hoop. To purchase this collection, click here.