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A Place to Share Sewing & Quilting Experiences

About

I am a home sewer and quilter who loves the craft and wants to pass along ideas/suggestions to other quilters & sewers. I hope you enjoy this forum.

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Caroline Liebau said:

November 21, 2017 at 9:19 PM

Hi Melinda, I just came across the picture of the Battenburg Lase Chrismobns you made for your church. I searched Embroidery Library and couldn’t find them. Can you send me a link?
Warm regards,
Caroline
- melindaquilts said:
  
  November 21, 2017 at 9:30 PM
  
  Hi Caroline,
  They are on Embroidery Library and not Embroidery Online. Here’s the link: http://www.emblibrary.com/EL/Products.aspx?Catalog=Emblibrary&ProductID=X0139
  
  Melinda
Glenda Rhodes said:

November 16, 2017 at 4:10 PM

I’m rather new to embroidery and all I have encountered is polyester thread. Where do you purchase cotton embroidery thread for machines. I have the Babylock Unity.
- melindaquilts said:
  
  November 16, 2017 at 4:36 PM
  
  I only use polyester thread for embroidery. I use Mettler and Isacord with great results. I’m not sure a cotton embroidery thread would hold up to the fast embroidery speeds of my machine…plus I like the “sheen” of the polyester thread.
Amy Gehman said:

November 12, 2015 at 10:31 AM

Hi Melinda, I love your Chrismon ornaments that were posted on your blog in 2013. Would you be able to email me so I could ask you some questions about how you made them? My church is looking to repair/replace our Chrismons, and your blog post really got us interested. Thank you!
- melindaquilts said:
  
  November 12, 2015 at 11:00 AM
  
  In case anybody else is interested, I’ve posted my email comment to Amy below on the process for the Crismon ornaments, plus the source for the embroidery designs.
  
  Hi Amy,
  
  I’d be happy to share my process for the Chrismon Ornaments. I got the design pack off of Embroider Library website. I love their designs and they are very reasonably priced. Here’s the pack I used.
  
  http://www.emblibrary.com/EL/Products.aspx?Catalog=Emblibrary&ProductID=X0140
  
  They come in different sizes and this is the medium one. They are stitched on a water soluable stabilizer and cotton thread is used in the top and bobbin. I embroidered them on my Bernina 830 embroidery/sewing machine. The designs come in all different formats for any machine type.
  
  Here are the instructions from the website. I find their tutorials to be very helpful and lots of photos along the way.
  
  http://www.emblibrary.com/EL/elprojects/Projects.aspx?CS_Catalog=Elprojects&CS_ProductID=PR1791
  
  Best of luck to you!
  
  Melinda
Judy@grandparentsplus2 said:

February 17, 2013 at 4:16 PM

I just found your blog – where have I been? Question for you – how do you like your embroidery machine and was it hard to learn how to use it? Guess that is two questions. 🙂
- melindaquilts said:
  
  February 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM
  
  That’s the fun thing about blogs (and my new addiction, Pinterest) is that you can find something new every day. I love my embroidery machine. It is one of the few tools I’d fight anybody who tried to take it away. My very first embroidery machine (I’m on about my 4th or 5th one now because I keep trading them in when a new and better model came out) was a little difficult to learn mostly because it was very new and different to the sewing I’d done before. I had a great dealership that offered “guide” classes which I could not have done without. Embroidery has gotten easier with each machine (except maybe for my present Bernina 830). This machine is more challenging because it does things so differently (and is a little more finicky) . I absolutely love it though. Glad you are here & welcome.
  
  Melinda