This is beautiful! I love how nicely you lined it with the matching print! Nik looks like she really loves it too!
I was poking around on the DL board and I believe you have to go to the ticket booth outside to get the gift card. Some have had papers printed out (where they registered online). The lines are super long because of this and my understanding from reading is that it CANNOT be used for food. So merchandise only!
Thanks!
That is my understanding with the AP bday thing. We are still doing it for Nikki's bday in Nov. I figured the kids could split the gift card.
Okay, enough lurking on part. I have read 100's of your postings and thought it was time to say "hi." I love, love, everything you guys do! How do you do so much sewing and posting? You guys move fast!
I do a lot of sewing and my girls are clammering for me to make outfits like the ones they see posted here. Guess I need to get going before they are too old to wear them!
I do have a bunch of questions for you guys but I'll start with one. I really want a ruffler for my Bernina. I saw that someone said they ordered theirs on e-bay. They appear to be similiar to Bernina's and in the $20-30 range. Is this a good deal and do you guys use rufflers enough to warrent the purchase?
i have a ruffler but am terrified of it!!!!!!!
Congrats on your new machine. I have 2 brother machines, and I love them both!
I am shocked that a dealership would use coffee filters. I was always told to only use embroidery stabilizers because it would void the warranty on mymachine if I used other things. I know alot of people try to use sewer cloth that you can buy at Lowes as stabilizer too. I just use it to trace my patterns onto. You can actually get embroidery stabilizer for pretty cheap. Especially tear away which is what i would imagine the coffee filters would be used as? Some shops sell them by the yard. This one place I found it was like 20 cents a yard. Anyhow.. sorry for the rant. I was just yelled at by several people for ever suggesting using anything that wasn't embroidery stabilizer. I've heard of people using saran wrap instead of water soluable topping.(like you put on top of towels and on anything with nap)
You should visit
www.sewforum.com and look in the embroidery section. There are tons of good links there that show you what kinds of stabilizers to use on different things. Plus the members there seem to know everything about embroidery. I have learned so much from them. You don't NEED to use a topping on top of fleece, but it would depend on how thick it is. If it was thick I would use some just to make sure everything lays nice and flat. I'm a little paranoid though as you can tell.
You just want to use a topping like vilene or water soluable stabilizer on things with a nap like towels or minky dot or something like that.
This is actually my 3rd brother my old one is tucked away for Nik to play with. I had to trade my 2nd one in for this one but the new one is my old machine +! LOL
The dealership didn't necessarily recommend coffee filters they use it for their samples and all of their samples are beautiful so i figured why not use them for other things just like the tear away. I think some one on here even posted the dealership they worked at did it too?
Hi Guys,
We have our first fundraiser for our Camp Promise Trip at church tomorrow am - since we have the nice chef's hat pattern now, I decided to make a fun one for DH, and then decided to do an apron to match!! He seemed to like it! Its a pancake breakfast, and DH is in charge of the omlettes!!
What do ya think????
It came out great! He looks like he loves it! Take lots of picture tomorrow! I love when you post pictures of Camp Promise!
About embroidery machines. I have had mine since 2001 and joined a brother yahoo group when I first got it. It was a wonderful place to learn about the machine, hear tips and tricks and get pointed in the right direction for free designs.
There was tons of talk of different things being used for stablizer and I have pretty much tried them all. They all seem to work more or less. One favorite of others being the paper from dr's office visits that lays across the thing you sit on! Odd thing, but really, it worked.
any chance yo could pm me with the info on the brother yahoo group?
I am sucha looser I couldn't sleep last night because I kept thinking 'What could i make that I can embroider!
Keep in mind I already decided to applique the pockets on the jacket I am making Nik.
Hi - yes it is for the camp for kids and adults with special needs in MT!! you remembered!!!! Thanks for that!!
Yes, I have to admit, I LOVE TOYS!! Can you believe we dont even have any kids!!!!!!!!! Some of my favorites that I usually keep at work but we've had kids over alot lately - they are the Fisher Price Snap and Style Dolls, and the other is called Motor Blocks - the kids cant get enough of them - they build really cool airplanes, choo choo's , race cars etc!!!
And just because she has been my puppy fuzz for 10 years now and turned 11 years old today (just a guess = we got her at the SPCA) here is Zoey enjoying her birthday cupcake!!!
See you do have a kid Zoe!!!!! Before we had kids our cat and dog(polie and Rocky) where our kids! We even called ourselves mommy and daddy to them

now tha we have kids we still consider Polo our 1st born Rocky our 2nd Nikki is our 3rd Kyle 4th and Daisy is really our 5th!

I know we are bog ol losers!
Any way Zoe is so cute! Love how she is smiling in the las bday picture!
Oh I love the eyore pj's as I sit here in my Tink ones!!!!
You guys have posted a bunch of beautiful stuff today.
I have been lurking this week, mostly. I have strep and I am not getting over it as fast as I would like. Apparently its much harder for me to just "rest" than it used to be..... could be the super cute 5 and 2 year old who just want play
Feel better!
Ok I played a bit last night with my machine and I down loaded a design to my machine

The best part is it worked perfect with my Mac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought i was going to have to switch to windows but the Mac worked just fine
Off today to get the thread!!!!