You may remember that one of my earliest blogs discussed “Things I Wish I Knew When I Began Machine
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May 22, 2009
rmacali
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I just had one of those embroiderer and 'can't make up her mind' customer interactions.
The antagonist of the story, played by the customer, is a great water color painter -- if you don't believe her, just ask her -- and, she brings in 3 water color paintings. Well,...
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First, I must announce the new site that has been 18 months in the designing, redesigning and making
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Much to my delight, this is my first year anniversary. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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April 24, 2009
rmacali
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Q: You hear stories of beautiful embroidery designs created from sketches on a bar napkin. Is that true?A: Though I may have had gotten ideas from sketches, the better the art, the better the embroidered design will be.
Your software undoubtedly can import a wide array of art.&nbs...
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April 10, 2009
rmacali
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Q: How does the embroidery machine know where to put all the stitches?A: You just scan the image and the software analyzes the art and tells the machine where to place the stitches.
Well, that's what our customers think. I wish it were that easy. Actually, I don't .....
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March 20, 2009
loes
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Twelve and a half years ago I wrote my first tutorial! Can you image? Twelve And A Half years of Artistitch. That's one eighth of a century. And isn't it great that AnnTheGran is organizing an event for me to celebrate this? Kidding of course!
My first book for PE-Design version 1, in Du...
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March 6, 2009
loes
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Here's a mini tutorial, showing my sheer admiration for Design Center as "Redwork Wizard".
Try and see if you can find a continuous path, without jumps in the above image
If you are one of the embroiderers who consider PE-Design's / Palette's Design Center to be "beginne...
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February 20, 2009
loes
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As promised here's a mini tutorial on how to use PE-Design Lite in combination with our Pre-Design Studio program. It's getting the best of two worlds: create filled areas using the AutoPunch function in PE Lite on the basis of an image made with Pre-Design Studio and create bean stitch line...
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When I first looked at Ken Parson’s Compositions, I was confused by it, not because it was difficult
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January 17, 2009
annthegran
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We’re trying to pare down here at the old homestead. I have no idea where all this stuff came from but it’s gotta go! Okay, I know where it came from . . . . Live in the same house for 47 years and stuff piles up. Plus, Bill has a habit that I’ve heard that a lot of men have: Somet...
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January 9, 2009
loes
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Happy New Year!Can you imagine? A new year, again? It feels like it's only a few months ago since we all watched the fireworks going from New Zealand / Australia / Europe and finally USA to welcome the new Millennium! And now all of a sudden we're in 2009...Time is one of the things in life ...
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I have been thinking about doing embroidery on lingerie for some time now. I might be doing so
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December 11, 2008
loes
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Special Offer - To get free shipping and handling on Pre-Design Studio, the software mentioned in this post, click here.
Wow, my first blog at AnnTheGran.com This week I will try to solve a problem that will be familiar to many of you - well, at least I hope that I'm not the...
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September 11, 2008
annthegran
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It seems like I’ve been away for a long time, even though it’s only been a couple of weeks since I’ve written. So, so much has happened. First of all, July-August is our family’s big birthday season. We have a couple of stragglers, the twins in October and t...
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August 22, 2008
annthegran
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and take your wind and rain with you! Although we havent had any flooding as some of our Central Florida Embroiderers have suffered, or gale force winds, the constant rain and wind for 5 days has my brain jumbled and I'm ready to tear my hair out. But, as far as I know, all of us embroiderers he...
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July 21, 2008
travelbug1237
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HH Fellow MEers!!,
HOW are you doing???!!! I’ve missed hearing from you !!!
Warning….(If you want quick and easy and lots to do with embroidery…skip this blog and wait to read my next one that I will be posting very soon.)
(Sorry on my part because Chatty Cathy wasn’t ...
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June 26, 2008
annthegran
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Size matters if
you have a design that’s 5 inches wide and your largest hoop is 4 inches wide.
Size matters if you want to make a border along the edge of a tablecloth.
Size matters if you want to combine two or three designs, each the size of your
largest hoop, into one big design.
Firs...
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January 24, 2008
atgadmin
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First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who sent in feedback about my Community Circle event in April. It was a deluge! So many people responded that we needed to step back and re-plan the event to make it bigger. We're almost there; I'll be announcing all the details, along with r...
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December 6, 2007
atgadmin
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Our international trend continues this week with a project from Jean Isley in England. Growing up du
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