Welcome to Rewind Wednesday!

Welcome to Rewind Wednesday!  Is anyone else feeling the time crunch of the approaching holidays?  I sure do!

For today's lesson I created a quick video in which I feature how to make a cutwork, appliqué and Silhouette Studio file using Snowflake 5.  It is from the Colorful Snowflakes collection featured in yesterday's post.

I am sharing the Snowflake 5 jpg file here.  If you haven't signed up for the daily emails from www.dailyarthub.com, make sure you stop by often to check out their free daily design!

  

                

A few added notes from the video!

*For your fabric selection, choose Cotton 2 - mine is set for linen.

*Choose your hoop size and #44C when you are creating the Cutwork file.

*Choose your hoop size and #26 when you are creating your Appliqué file.



Here is a link for a quick holiday wine bag I found on Embroidery Library.  This is perfect pattern for an assortment of snowflakes!

I hope you are inspired to give this a try!  If you have any questions, post them in the comments and I will do my best to answer them!

Welcome to Tidbit Tuesday!

Just a little tidbit - not too big of a morsel to digest! That is what today's lesson is all about!

This week I am featuring designs from the Colorful Snowflakes from www.dailyarthub.com

After you download the file, select the first snowflake from the PNG folder and load it into the software.( hmm - where did I put that folder?...)

Oh - there it is!.... Select your largest hoop using the #93 foot.

Next - select the TRACE function.

Then trace the design....

Look - there are only two colors!  This will be easy!

The background of this design is white and so I will drag it over and then delete the white background.  How to do this?  Just click on the upper right hand corner of the white box and drag it to the right with your mouse.

Hit the delete button on your keyboard.

Oh no! The inside of this snowflake has a white fill and if I delete it, it will be a solid designs.

The Trim tool is the 3rd icon from the right on the toolbar above. Think of it as a pair of scissors and you are going to snip out those little sections from the inside of your snowflake.

So hold down the shift key and select each of the sections AND then the entire design.  Select the trim function and it cuts out the design. Delete the little white triangles.

And like magic, I have a clean painted design!   Save your design as Snowflake1_PAINT.DRAW

The last step was to hide the PNG snowflake file ...>View>Backdrop>Hide

Save your design as Snowflake_PaintBorder.DRAW and send it to your USB stick.

After I loaded this into my machine, I selected Endless Embroidery and added one more design.  I must admit it was quite large.  You may want to reduce it to create a border for a holiday towel design.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson today.  It was a chilly 52 degrees this morning here in Tampa, Fl.  Why not leave me a comment with the temperature and your location?  

Welcome to A+ Monday!

After a number of conflicts, I am going to cross my fingers and hope this works! So welcome!

Several of the divas have been busy over the past holiday season, so there are only a few photos to share.

I am bestowing the title of "Queen of Paintworks" to Nancy Wilson.  She has painted more projects in one year than any of us have painted in 3 years!

Here are a few of her recent designs.

Here are two pre-made table runners that she made for a baby shower.  She used an assorted number of fonts.  

All fonts are from one of our favorite sites for fonts www.dafont.com.

The script on the table runner on the left is "Contribute" and can be found here.

The girls are "Girl Character"  and the link can be found here.

The baby designs are from "Baby's World" and the link can be found here.

Here is a gift bag she made for her Bernina dealer.

For the sewing gift bag, she used the font "Tailoring" from www.dafont.com. You can find the link here.  Isn't this a perfect font for us sewing divas?

Here is a bag in which she played around with a number of different fonts.

Did I tell you that she has her OWN folder on my desktop with all of her paintworks designs?!

Here is my design from the recent Bernina webinar. The dove is a free file from OESD from the webinar.  You can find the link to the webinar and handout here. 

I used  $1.00 font Cimochi from www.the Hungry jpeg here. They also have several free fonts and designs here

Here is my finished pillow.

Alberta C shared her table runner pics from her most recent DesignWorks Decoded class.  Mine is not quite finished!

This week I will be featuring a file from www.dailyarthub.com called Colorful Snowflakes here.  They offered it for free on Sunday and it is a perfect collection to practice your Paintwork skills!

I did join their Art Hub Club on Black Friday as I thought $35 was a reasonable amount to pay for a subscription.  However I am in no way affiliated with any of the links I post here!  One of the reasons that  love this site is their designs are 'commercial' free as long as I post a link back to their site.

So please come back tomorrow for "Tidbit Tuesday" and I will show a quick technique using the first snowflake.

Welcome to Tidbit Tuesday

It is another "Tidbit Tuesday"!

Summer is finally over here in Florida!  Yesterday morning it was 62 degrees! Yeah!!  It finally feels like fall.  This week's lesson for my DesignWorks Decoded class is called Winter Wonderland and it is all about snowflakes.  So I thought I would share a quick 'snow'tidbit with you.

Download the LP Snowflake from www.dafont.com here

Install the font onto your computer BEFORE you open up your software.

Open up your DW software and select NEW Graphic and the Oval Hoop with foot #26.

Select the Text tool and type in lpsnowflake.

Using the chart above, type in the letter "I" and select the rectangle icon (the first icon on the left).  This step converts it to the DRAW format.

Change the size to 2.75" - be sure to check Proportional.  Add a outline to your snowflake.

Click NONE for the Fill and change the outline to the Running stitch with a length of 3.0 mm

Be sure to test it out to see how it stitches out!  Have fun and "Let it Snow" (up north)