SweetAdeline Designs

Happy Valentine's Day! I like to decorate my table even if no one sits down for a fancy dinner!  To be honest, I decorate my house for every holiday and I have since my kids were little.  Now my grandchildren enjoy each holiday and I am happy to celebrate with them as long as I can! I love Kimberbell designs and stitch them often.  This collection includes the traditional cutwork technique and can be completed in no time with purchased napkins. Last fall I taught this class using a Thanksgiving theme and it is so versatile, it is perfect for any holiday. So I switched up the fabric and designs and added a cutwork napkin to create a whole new look. It was quite easy to stitch out two of these in the 200 x 200mm Quilters Hoop.  I hooped Cut Away stabilizer and stitched out the first step with the napkin outline and the heart decoration.  Be sure to use Rayon thread in both the top and bobbin!  Trim the extra fabric and then add t...

This month at our Sewing Sisters event, I featured adding Fiber Arts to our designs.  In a previous post I shared the felted bag that I had designed and created.   Sandy K shared a project that she has felted with fleece and that inspired me to make one of my own.  Her project was an Embroidery Club project from 2014 and perhaps some of you may have actually made this knitting basket. Since I was busy doing other projects at that time, I missed an excellent opportunity.  So I decided to take advantage of this new found project and make my own.  The original project was made with felt but I loved Sandy's project so much that I decided to use fleece instead. Since I didn't have the directions at the time, I decided to 'wing' it!  The  first step was to hoop a layer of Aqua Magic in my 360 x 260 mm hoop. I placed my white fleece right side down and then the pink fleece right side down.  I pinned another layer of Aqu...

Part 2 - Cutting your Appliqué Creator designs.   I actually cut the designs which match the placement files exactly.  I was surprised in that the satin stitching was wide enough to cover the edge as this doesn't always happen with some appliqué designs. Once I removed all of the layers, the design was very faint and hard to see.  So I changed the line color to black and 1.0 in width. Once I did that I noticed that I had an open path and so I closed it using the 'Edit nodes' function. Terri Johnson Creates  blog has an excellent post here to help you understand more clearly this process. Once I deleted the red dot, it closed the path and I was able to fill it with my colors.  I like to arrange and group my designs together and in this way I can make them separate colors.  I followed Terri's directions and added a 1.0 mm offset to the design. I deleted the internal designs and now I am ready to cut my design.  I ...

Yes, truly I am in love with the new updates to my Pfaff icon!  The new updates to both the machine and the Premier+2 software now enable me to send a design from my machine directly to my software via the 'paper airplane' icon! Here is a class that I taught in January in which I was able to use this technique that I am featuring today. I created the XOXO design in Appliqué Creator on my machine and sent it off to my software.  Do you see the paper airplane next to the butterflies?   That is how I sent it to the software.  When I sent it, it arrived quickly in my software. Unfortunately the Silhouette Designer Edition + software does not recognize vp3, so I saved the design as a dst. I was then able to load it into the Silhouette Designer Edition + software.  The Designer Edition loads SVG files but the Designer Edition + loads embroidery format files- a real bonus! I then pull off the layers to reveal the placement, ...

Some days I just spend my time looking for cute ideas.  Even though some might consider this a waste of time, one idea can lead to several for me.  Here are some of the cute Valentine Day projects I found which may lead to others for me. I found this super cute pillow from the Dritz site.  You can find the link here. Here is the perfect project for your Valentine fabric scraps.  You can find the link here. How about another Valentine Mug Rug?  The link is here.   One of my favorite sites for free designs is Kreative Kiwi Embroidery Designs. When I need inspiration I always return to this site and you can find it here .  They offer several free designs and I loved the "Love " bubble and the In the Hoop Koru Heart. What a clever project using the three heart sizes. Check out the video they have to help you embroidery the In the Hoop Koru Heart. I made this super cute wallhanging a few years ago with a Janine Babic...