Archive for 'Embroidery and Sewing Projects' Category

Quilting and Embroidery

Combining quilting and embroidery is actually combining the best of both worlds. By adding embroidery to a quilt, a wall hanging or a quilted project, you take it from ”ho hum” to the “oh my, isn’t that wonderful” type of project where everyone wants to know how you ever created such a wonderful project. However, [...]

Embroidered Monograms

Initials and monograms are funny things – they seem to go in and out of style, but are never really out of style. Monograms have been used for many years as signatures for many things, but gained the most popularity and use in the early 20th century. In the 1920′s and 1930′s the monogram was [...]

Embird Tip – Remember Background Colour

One of the little known features in Embird Manager is “remember background colour”. If you have a definite colour that you wish to have as a background for one design, but the remainder of your designs to have the default white background, under colour palette there is the option to remember background colour. Open a [...]

Embird Tip – Aligning Designs in Editor

Have you ever merged two or more designs into a hoop and wanted to have them align perfectly or have you ever tried to align a row of text with a design? There is an align tool in Embird that is very easy to use but quite often overlooked. With the align tool, you have [...]

Embird Tip Slicing or Splitting a Design – what should it be?

Did you know that when separating a design into two or more sections that you can either split the design or slice it? What is the difference between splitting and slicing a design? When you split a design, the design is actually split so that it can be joined back together. Do you remember the [...]

Sew-in-the-Hoop Project – Magic Wallet

Have you ever heard of the magic wallet?   It was very popular in North American back in the 1940′s but every so often it resurfaces and becomes popular again for a short time.    It’s a fun project, as your money “magically” transfers from one side of the wallet to the other when it is placed [...]

Embird and Screen Calibration

When you begin with Embird, the first thing you should do is calibrate your screen. But if you have never calibrated your screen, it is never too late to do the screen calibration. The reason why you want to calibrate your screen is so that when you open a design, it will be in the [...]

Embroidering Patches

Patches are quick and easy to make and you can be very creative with them. Children love patches on their garments and you can get the children involved in the embroidery process, if you wish. Make several fun patches with characters, perhaps Disney characters if you have the Disney machines or any other fun character [...]