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The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Are you distressed, ripped, destroyed? This will help! The Freebie will help too.

April 6, 2018 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer , Design Tips & Tricks Comments (0)  
Looking for a project for my blog, I saw so many torn jeans that I thought, I don’t wear them, but t [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents – Embroidery is an Art Form and a freebie to celebrate the season.

March 21, 2018 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer , Design Tips & Tricks Comments (1)  
You and I know that embroidery can be so many things, an heirloom (don’t forget to put your name and [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Repeat Border Designs Without a Headache. Your Freebie will help you with this process.

February 23, 2018 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer , Design Tips & Tricks , Machine Tips Comments (3)  
While searching the Internet for interesting (?) subjects for my blog, I came upon one that seemed v [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Learning and Remembering What You Learned. And a Freebie for Thanksgiving

November 3, 2017 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer , Design Tips & Tricks Comments (7)  
How To Remember 90% Of Everything You LearnThe development of the Learning Pyramid in the 1960’ [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Obsolete Alphabet? and Freebie for the future.

April 7, 2017 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer , The Memory Book Comments (0)  Not rated yet
I have been reading that the English alphabet, as we know it, is nearing obsolescence for many reaso [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents – World's Second Oldest Profession and an Easter Freebie

March 24, 2017 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (1)  
I have recently discovered the actual world's second oldest profession. The world needs many things [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - A Relaxed Hobo and a St. Puptrick's Day Design

March 10, 2017 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer , Design Tips & Tricks Comments (1)  Not rated yet
Last week I got an ad from one of my favorite stores saying they had "Relaxed Hobos" on sale. My fir [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents – Decorations where you least expect them. A Freebie for saying "I Love You"

February 24, 2017 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer , Design Tips & Tricks , Machine Tips Comments (5)  
I really believe that décor should be simple and unconventional, lovely and not ostentatious, classy [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Who needs all this tension, with tension tests? And an embellishment freebie

February 10, 2017 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer , Machine Tips Comments (3)  
Tension is a word that has a very bad PR agency. The mere word gets blood pressure to rise and grow [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Four Cool Tips and a Hand-Picked Freebie

January 27, 2017 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (2)  
I have been embroidering for more than 15 years.  I was generally self-taught and I started wit [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - My Favorite Sweaters need a little something and My Own First Freebie

January 6, 2017 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (0)  
I have a "Love" "Hate" relationship with some of my sweaters. I love my "creamy orange," light-weigh [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents – Look Who is Aware Now❣ - And, a space saving tip!

March 25, 2016 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (0)  
Pat shares a personal story about her grandson, and highlights awareness designs. [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know and a freebie . . .

March 11, 2016 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (2)  
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VM [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Tricky Fabric and Stabilizers (AND two freebies)

February 4, 2016 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer , Design Tips & Tricks Comments (4)  
I do like to create something unexpected when I embroider.  Some times that includes using a te [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Decorate with trays

January 22, 2016 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (0)  
Leafing through multiple magazines, including HGTV and Better Homes and Gardens (how long has it bee [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - A last minute gift for anyone on your list.

December 18, 2015 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (0)  
No matter how I plan and get prepared for the holidays, especially Christmas (for me), there are alw [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Hidden tips and tricks for excellent embroidery

September 18, 2015 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (1)  
There are so many places to learn about embroidery on the Internet.  My blog and that of the ot [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Sharing the love of Embroidery

September 4, 2015 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (0)  
This time of the year - where on earth did summer go?? - the kids are off to school and the temperat [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - Those Perfect Designs in the Showroom

August 21, 2015 Brown Eyed Lady EMB 101 , The Avid Embroiderer Comments (1)  
If you need to go out this afternoon for some stabilizer or thread, this is a caution just for you.& [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - It is almost Valentine's Day❣❣

January 16, 2015 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (1)  
Romance is in the Air!! [More]

New Look: Blog, Forum and, Especially, Gallery!

August 15, 2014 sewblest Comments (0)  Not rated yet
Calling all embroiderers! Now, you can easily upload your project photos to the gallery. I am l [More]

Creating a personal design without digitizing. . .

July 25, 2014 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (2)  
I was thinking the other day about all the great designs that are available BUT, when I need somethi [More]

OFF SIDES - 10 stitch Penalty

July 11, 2014 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (1)  Not rated yet
I got a little Soccer fever and if you did not, I am here to tell you that the USA lost but can hold [More]

Messing With Tension!

June 27, 2014 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (4)  
I have been doing bridal work for almost 13 years.  Sometimes it is frustrating, interestingly, [More]

No Sew Pillowcase and a freebie

June 6, 2014 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (2)  Not rated yet
In my last blog, I did a foam and embossed design in Turquoise and mint green.  The photo does [More]

Joan Rivers Made Me Do It! AND Two More Tips!

May 23, 2014 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (1)  Not rated yet
I am a big fan of Joan Rivers - NOT for her use of foul language - but for her sense of taste and st [More]

Hardanger Revisited

May 9, 2014 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (0)  Not rated yet
Hardanger is a type of stitching that uses the canvas itself as part of the design. The open weave a [More]

A Newbie's Perfect project.

April 25, 2014 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (2)  
These things are just a little information for your project.  I know that, although I have been [More]

What is wrong with this picture? And, tips for Trouble Shooting registration and puckering.

March 28, 2014 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer , Design Tips & Tricks , Machine Tips Comments (3)  
As I noted in my blog "Where is an Expert When You Need One?" sometimes we need an expert opinion an [More]

More of those Newbie Mistakes

February 22, 2013 Brown Eyed Lady The Avid Embroiderer Comments (0)  Not rated yet
There is something interesting about 'Newbie' mistakes, we all make them AND, sometimes the most exp [More]
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