Well, we had a great time at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in August. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the vacation week.
Caitlin is totally obsessed with penquins! We were thrilled to find there was an exhibit at the aquarium. This little guy was just fixated with her through the glass. The rest of the little guys were just standing around like stuffed animals! It really was cute to see.
Back to business.
EMBROIDERY CLUB
Sept Club Supply List:
24 2” squares. I used a charm pack of a Halloween fabric for my top rows of the bag.¼ yard for the bottom of the bag – I used same for the lining. If you want to use a different fabric just need another ¼ yard. If you’re using scraps a piece 6” x 9 ¼” is what you need for the bag bottom.
Batting – just a scrap 14” square. If you have pieces this is perfect. Remember the foot #10, sewn with a zigzag will attach those pieces for use in this project.
For the embroidery part I used 1/8 yd of a fabric where my embroidered words can be read. Once you make one of these you will want to make more for other holidays and you can make them larger if you want!
Bring the large hoop oval for your machine.
The embroidery thread will be the choice of your lettering. I used black since it was for Halloween.
If you cut your 2” squares before class you might still bring your fabrics.
Sewing thread for construction of your bag.
You will leave with a finished project.
October Embroidery Club :
My gift to you. Bring your unfinished projects and I'll be there to help you with any questions problems to help you get it completed. No charge for this class.
Digitizing The Duck
Also, we have the dates for the software class to work on digitizing the duck. Dates are Oct 29, Nov 5 and Nov 15. Anybody else remember the movie - "Disco Duck"?
Wildflowers
This class is back for another encore. Dates are being firmed up as we're going to be ordered fabrics so we kits can be prepared. I'll keep you posted. If you haven't taken this before this is a beautiful project to build confidence in handling your embroidery machine. This makes a generous lap size throw.
FREE THINGSZundt is a provider of fine Swiss embroidery designs. I received an email from them for several free designs to download, which is very unusual so I'm sharing this link with you all. Just click on the picture to get to the page. They will email the design file to you.
Check out their prices and you should really appreciate being able to download these beautifully done designs at no charge!
NEWS
I've figured out how to create a hyper link. That's where you can just click on wording that shows in a different color and usually is underlined. When you place your mouse over the wording you will see an indication that you can click on the link (the arrow usually changes to the finger, indicating there is a link attached).
A new collection at the Embroidables site by Dolly Lama's - Men are Animals! It really is cute so click on the title to see.
I almost forgot! The lastest book from Jenny Haskins is finally available! Check out Jenny's Heritage now. The price of the book includes all embroidery designs needed for every block in the quilt. Just contact the store or email me to have a copy reserved for you! This is the book that I talked about in the first post on this blog after the academy in June. This quilt started as 16+ pillows that everyone convinced Jenny to make into a quilt and that lead to this latest publication from Jenny and Simon.
Here's another beautiful floral shot that I captured from a web site that I wanted to share with you all.
Take time to smell the flowers!
