July 31, 2008
annthegran
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I’m not going to dwell on the fabulous lunch that we Central Florida machine embroiderers enjoyed a week and a half ago. Well, I MAY dwell on it, because it WAS fabulous. First of all, there were 24 of us, including four husbands, two of whom are into machine embroidery. You can find lots of p...
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July 30, 2008
beamishboy
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Welcome to the AnnTheGran Community!
Many people know AnnTheGran.com for free embroidery designs, and that's great, but now the site offers so much more. If you've just been using my site to get free designs, you've been missing out!
If you have a question about anything related to you...
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July 25, 2008
db1921
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Can you believe that July is almost over? We have the strangest weather here this year. One day it’s about 100 degrees and the next it barely gets into the 70s. The month has breezed by filled with gardening (my tomato plants are all dying and I don’t know why), g...
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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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Thanks for responding to my request for what you wanted to talk about! Endless Hooping was the
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July 18, 2008
carol
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Individual characters (letters, numbers and punctuation marks) from
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July 17, 2008
laruej
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I've been invited to Blog about quilting for ATG. I’ve used LaRueSews as a nickname because I do all kinds of sewing. But maybe sometime it will change or morph into something more "quilty."* My name is LaRue Jones. (LaRue is spelled with a big "R"). I was born in ...
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July 16, 2008
annthegran
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Time flies, doesn't it? First I had a house full of kids. Then I had a car full of kids. Then my nephew in Tallahassee had a boat full of kids. Then I had a car full of kids again. Then I had no kids. Then I got on an airplane and spent 4 days in Kentucky with my youngest grandson, 3 1/2, who sa...
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July 13, 2008
beamishboy
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Expanding Bookshelf
Hard to believe, but it's only been four months since my inaugural post here on the Magic Bookshelf. I've covered blogs, wikis, digital scrapbooks, tags, product ratings, and lots of other topics, and some great ideas have come back from you. The idea of this blog was to...
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July 10, 2008
db1921
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Now, what is all this about green paper? This was my initial thought when I first heard the term KIWI paper. Oh, its paper and you can supposedly embroider on it. We've all done that before but it is so hard to find really fun designs that don’t ruin the pa...
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July 3, 2008
annthegran
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Here it is July already. Where in the world has the year gone? One place it went was lickedy split right by me and until today I hadn't seen any of my grandchildren since Christmas, two of them since before Christmas. But today was delicious. DD's 3 oldest are in Florida for the month with t...
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Needles
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The low
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July 3, 2008
donnagiampa
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With so many gorgeous designs available in machine embroidery, why choose Cross Stitch? Don’t Cross Stitch designs take forever to stitch? What about all those thread changes and jump stitches that need to be clipped? These are all legitimate questions for machine embroiderers.
My name is Don...
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June 27, 2008
beamishboy
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Digital Hugs
People are really starting to have some fun in our community. Many of you are taking advantage of some of the great features that make it possible to really share yourselves and the results of your creativity. A number of you have commented on the blogs and fo...
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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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June 19, 2008
db1921
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Hello, all ME blog readers. I got to know many of you at this year’s Community Circle in Orlando. If you were there and don't remember me, there's a picture of me on our About Us page. I also post from time to time in the forums under my username db1921 and I created the cof...
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June 19, 2008
annthegran
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A while ago I nudged y'all a little about forming local "Community Circles" so you could get together once in a while to have lunch, chat, make projects and generally help each other out. Believe me, it was NOT my doing, but the "How many live in Central Florida?" thread has ...
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June 12, 2008
annthegran
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This one's for you, DaddyWhen I was small we didn't have a lot of money. Sometimes I don't think we had any. As time went on my parents incomes improved. But they didn't really change their lifestyle very much. Oh, the year I left for college they did carpet my bedroom (which had bec...
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June 11, 2008
travelbug1237
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HH ME’ers!!!, (Hello Hello, Machine Embroiderers)Just back from a glorious trip to the beach. Yeah!!!! While there, I came to the conclusion that before I take another embroidery class in order to blog about it,I needed to …… Whoa! …… Stop!......... & GET ORGANIZED!!! I needed to:1. &...
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June 6, 2008
annthegran
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Having trouble thinking of what to write about this week. I know, those of you who have attended any
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Hooping 101 Initially, I thought I might be able to discuss hooping in a single blo
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May 31, 2008
travelbug1237
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Hear Ye’ Hear Ye’ …STOP the PRESS …. The ULTIMATE Beginner’s Project is………….. LACE!!
HH ( Hello Hello ) all you fellow ME’ers!!!
I have been shopping up a storm!... and MEing too….
Speaking of shopping, Ann’s store has some good specials right now!!!!! Have you gone to her ‘shop' ...
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May 31, 2008
annthegran
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It feels as if I was just packing for this trip and here I am home again! Bill and I had a fabulous time in Toronto. First and foremost it was a delight to have a 3rd annual "Spring Fling" with our dear friends Loes and Theo van der Heijden from the Netherlands. Second, it was wonderful to...
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May 28, 2008
beamishboy
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Recent Brainwave
Believe it or not, it only occurred to me very recently that, with all the wonderful things available on our new site, we had never actually asked our loyal users where they want us to go next. I’ve told you on my blog here what we’ve planned, but I haven’t asked you w...
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May 23, 2008
beamishboy
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Worth Waiting For?
Well, so much for posting every week to this blog! I hope you'll allow me to claim vicarious blogging as an excuse -- lots of my time lately has gone into getting our two new guest bloggers (and a few more who you don't know about yet) up and running. Cathy'...
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May 22, 2008
annthegran
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Hi, folks,
Had another great question in last week's post from gpleasant, who asked how to hoop towels, under and over. I can tell you how I hoop towels. Bath towels are as liable to be viewed from the back as from the front, so I want both to look good. That means two things. First,...
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When a group of embroiderers gather, one subject is certain to come up . . . . . stabilizers &
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May 16, 2008
annthegran
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Digitizing Mystery
I began digitizing alphabets eight or nine years ago. I like doing it and I take a lot of pride in my work. You can imagine how distressed I was when I began receiving a few messages telling me that the capital and lower case letter "A' was appearing as a b...
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May 16, 2008
travelbug1237
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HH (Hello Hello!) Fellow Embroiderers, How are ALL of you??? What things are you doing these days???!!!!! How many NEW embroiders are out there like me. (I stitched my 1st design last week. Yeah!!!). It would also be interesting to find out who has embroidere...
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Introduction: Tips and tricks and an occasional trap 5/10/08 Because I so enjoy ta
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