January 8, 2010
db1921
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We are looking forward to another grandchild and I have vowed not to be scrambling when it arrives to be finishing things up. Only time will tell but our grandaughter and I have been working on a soft book for her new brother or sister. We will show it to you when we ...
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January 8, 2010
rmacali
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Welcome to 2010 .. the New Year has me off working on my designs site. It is truly a daunting task to find art that you are allowed to replicate and sell, digitize it, sample it, load it on the site, define the design, and ready it for sale and distribution. No matter how tough, our staf...
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January 8, 2010
lraikin
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BEADED AFRICAN VILLAGE, - Positive beadwork and the Rainbow nation
Perceptions and associations of Africa frequently revolve around drought, starvation and AIDS. I wanted to design a piece that reflected the artistic and diverse cultural beauty of South Africa.
While I love living in Ameri...
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January 8, 2010
The Avid Embroiderer
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These tips can be used for Windows XP and Vista and MAC-
Operating systems vary, if in doubt, check with your provider and/or technical support.
Several years ago, the 'powers that be' told us that we were going to become a paperless society. I don't know about y...
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December 18, 2009
junemellinger
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As the holiday season heats up I decided to get my toes operated on. What was I thinking? This is time of year when everyone is running around. Not me. In the last few days I had to learn how to do my holiday shopping on line. My DIL helped me figure out how to get free shipping wh...
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December 18, 2009
britonleap
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About 3 years ago I was sitting on my porch looking out across the Puget Sound. John Deer (Adorable Ideas) and his family were visiting with us and we were just enjoying the view of the water and relaxing. It occurred to me to ask him, "If you could ask for any embroidery software feature that ...
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December 18, 2009
The Avid Embroiderer
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Just in time for holiday fun, here are a few tips for getting some really great shots. Let's start out with some basics:
Start with a camera. OK, that sounds a little sarcastic, but the fact is that the auxiliary phones, ipods, etc., just don't have a great deal of real depth ...
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December 18, 2009
susanmars
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I've been looking through Spring catalogs from some of our suppliers and I'm seeing lots and lots of damask patterns and designs. It inspired me to think ahead to next year because I'm sure you'll be seeing lots of it too! It may be a little late to get something done for...
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December 11, 2009
britonleap
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Hello fellow embroiderers, design seekers and stash collectors!
'Leaping In' begins with a non-PC topic. No, I'm not being Politically in-Correct right out of the gate here at ATG. I'm talking about Mac computers and the lack of embroidery support for them. That other 'PC' ...
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December 11, 2009
carol
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Individual characters (letters, numbers and punctuation marks) from my alph
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December 11, 2009
laruej
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AAAHHHH! Christmas Time-It’s a wonderful time of year when we all rush around, from one party to another. Rushing the kids to their parties, and activities, while planning for the cookies we will bake when we get enough time. We spend hours, thinking, planning scheming for th...
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December 4, 2009
The Avid Embroiderer
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These tips can be used for Windows XP and Vista -
Operating systems vary, if in doubt, check with your provider and/or technical support.
Many people are confused between optical and digital zoom. If you are thinking of buying a new camera for yourself or someone else, you c...
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December 4, 2009
db1921
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By now everyone knows that at our house we have been slowly going green. It not only helps the
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November 27, 2009
susanmars
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Hey Everyone! It's that time of the year again---time to start coming up with some quick and easy gifts for folks on our list. I try to make the most of every single minute I have in the sewing room because I just don't get as much time in there as I want. But I do wa...
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November 27, 2009
The Avid Embroiderer
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These tips can be used for Windows XP and Vista -
Operating systems vary, if in doubt, check with your provider and/or technical support.
Years ago, I remember reading one of my favorite PC guru's newsletters and it said something like - This new PC has 10 MB of storage, you w...
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November 20, 2009
db1921
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I have to tell you a story of love at first sight. I have to tell you the story of Keiko. She is one of the newest members of the family (kind of). We have two dogs at our house - a sixteen year old Pomeranian mix and an almost two year old Papillon. So do we need anothe...
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November 20, 2009
laruej
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This has been a busy month. We recently went to Nashville again to sign a contract on a Motor Home that we saw last month. It’s like new, though used, and really beautiful. We will get it the first week of December.
Also, my sewing machine has been back to the factory, or wherever dis...
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November 20, 2009
rmacali
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Hello everyone. Had some spare time in my new married life and wanted to touch base with this great community!!
I have been emailing my customer base about needles and thread and how my experience may help those that are either new, or, just have never given these two important tools much tho...
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November 13, 2009
junemellinger
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In today's office environment the more popular method of communication is email but when my phone rings I can almost guarantee that I will be hearing from someone who is completely enthralled by sewing and wants to tell more people about what is happening in the world of sewing in the...
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November 13, 2009
jsdigitizing
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Did you ever wonder what it would be like to actually see the top of your desk through all those bills, notes, orders ...... and the list goes on. I know that feeling of "where did I just put that!" I know it's within arms reach because it was just in my hand and I haven...
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November 13, 2009
lraikin
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I used to be a really nervous flyer, every bump, thump, or noise would startle me. Reading just would not relax me and chatting to the passenger next to me would not succeed in calming me.
Things began changing for me once I started bringing my African Folklore Embroidery kit on board the air...
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November 13, 2009
The Avid Embroiderer
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These tips can be used for Windows XP and Vista -
Operating systems vary, if in doubt, check with your provider and/or technical support.
Among the things that are really great about a computer, being available and handy are just two of the important issues. When I sent to school, w...
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November 6, 2009
carol
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Individual characters (letters, numbers and punctuation marks) from my alph
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November 6, 2009
db1921
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Each time she visits my granddaughter asks if we can get the manger set out early this year. It is very old and worn but she loves to play with it, taking the figures on the trip to Bethlehem. We make a tradition of getting the house ready for the Christmas holidays the weekend after Tha...
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October 30, 2009
jsdigitizing
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Hello everyone.,
I am sorry we missed many of you at this weeks webinar for "What Constitutes Good Embroidery and Digitizing". There was a technical error with the link posted. We are excited to say the webinar is rescheduled:
Host: Scott Phillip...
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October 30, 2009
junemellinger
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People who know me know that I love to ask questions that generally lead to "six degrees of separation." Asking those questions usually leads to a discussion of sewing, and you know how much I love that. Recently I was asked to attend St. Louis Fashion week. Shouldn't need ...
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October 30, 2009
laruej
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Hi there EveryBuddy. Three weeks has come and gone, again. Blogging time is here. I hope that all of you have been diligently making the last block I gave you in LaRueSews BOM. This time it will be a quick one, both BLOG and block.
I have been out of town for a few days.&nb...
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October 30, 2009
The Avid Embroiderer
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These tips can be used for Windows XP and Vista -
Operating systems vary, if in doubt, check with your provider and/or technical support.
The following tip is my absolutely favorite tip that I ever found. I hope you will like it too.
If there is something that aggravates about tele...
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October 23, 2009
db1921
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This week I finished putting up my Halloween decorations. I made a few new ones this year, since my old ones were simply falling apart. Instead of the scarecrow on the front door I made a wall hanging that is interchangeable for each holiday. But that is a project I will sh...
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October 23, 2009
jsdigitizing
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In today's market the true professional digitizer who knows how to create crisp small letters, make your sewing machine sing through a 200k stitch design without a thread break and create some of the best looking embroidery you will see on material are becoming extinct. Those who are becom...
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