she-quilts wrote:
Just curious about "elly's emb CD". Can you tell me what it is (title, etc.). Wish I had a machine embroidery club........

mariedut wrote:
Marie, I took Joanne's first class on QU, and the table runner is 'embellishing' my dining room table now. I just love it. Her class taught me so much about my new (used) machine which I bought second hand. Your machine will have some beautiful designs already in it, but there are thousands of free designs on the web to try out different digitizers. You have one of the best groups right at home - "Hatched in Africa". Enjoy your machine.

The designs were mentioned in the blog about a week ago. The discussion was called Rapsodie Fantastique, stating that there would be 9 designs and Superior threads would be putting together different colorway sets. The picture of the quilt posted looked great.

Well, my anniv is May and bday in June. Both on the 29th.... so dh remembers! He is actually good about remembering, just not always good about shopping.

Someone else mentioned Ricky's emb designs. I looked on his website but didn't find them. Any suggestions?

Joyce, who needs to use what she has before shopping for MORE!

Gifts for our sewing are so welcome. Sometimes my family thinks since I have a lot of quilting, embroidery, fabric stuff that another type of gift would be okay. I'm going to drop a big hint regarding Ricky's embroidery designs for quilts - plus the thread to complete the project. Thing is birthday is months away.

So today I have 12 of the about 50 or so blocks! They look great!

But dh & dd took off today and I'm hoping... they went to my Bernina store and got me the 2 CDs I requested for our 24th anniv on Tues 5/29. It is 1 1/2 hrs away and they were gone long enough to go & come back and have about 1/2 hr there. Could be....

You know I had my hopes up about a gift I was sure they were hiding from me a few years ago and I was wrong.... argh!! Hope this isn't the case.

When my daughter gave me an Aurora 440 QE, the only thing I was excited about was the BSR foot to use in quilting. At my daughter's gentle push into machine embroidery, I found myself hopelessly hooked on the colors, designs and endless possibilities of combinations. Your fabric and thread color choices sound great. Too bad about the power going off just when you were about to start your project.

I've done the Redwork quilt (in blue ) and am just ready to start on the double wedding ring quilt. I'm using peach and green on a cream w/ green dot fabric. I have a peach & green, etc swirl for binding. Four inch blocks to make the bigger quilt. Alas, as I was ready to pop in the CD, the power went out. Now I have a mess on the kitchen table (light enough to work on something else there) that I need to clean up before dinner.

I think the book is good w/ lots of info as well as the CD w/ patterns.

Have fun!

Joyce

Thanks for commenting on my post. I looked at the Patty Albin embroidery book on Amazon. I's difficult to tell about the usefullness of the content unless someone referrences it. I will plan purchase it.

I'm in the Machine Embroidery Club at Phat 1/4 Quilting in Galena, IL. They are Bernina dealers but other makes of emb machines are allowed. We are working on the book, "Machine Embroidery Makes The Quilt" by Patty Albin. Good book!

For the Baltimore Album quilt in her book, I'm thinking (store owners idea) of using Elly's emb CD for the embroidery. Gorgeous!!

I'm new to the machine embroidery world. I'm excited about Ricky's embroidery designs along with Superior Threads providing color sets for using with these designs. What type of fabrics, stabilizers, etc. do most of you use for quilts. My quilt type preference would be the "use and wash" kind. Any input would be appreciated.

snowplow - thanks for the links on that Brazilian embroidery - it's fabulous! I bookmarked them. Chances are I will never do any but it's fun to think about (I need a new skill like a hole in the head).

Tama

Although I have my embroidery module(Bernina 170QE) 5 years- I only learned this week to use it. I am taking a Quilt University class by Joanne Winn- we are doing a crazy patch with embroiderie- her pattern. Do you digitize your own patterns- are their enough patterns in the machine to use. Where do one get nice patterns to combine with patchwork?

Marié du Toit, South Africa

I currently have the machine stitching away on blocks for a new baby quilt. The design takes 45 min to finish and am now down to 2 squares left. I use embroiery in some part of most of my quilts, whether in them or in the label. Right now I'm dabbling in heirloom embroidery designs on quilt blocks. I'm afraid to say it's turning our beatiful and may become addictive. Good thing hubby trucks and is gone most of the time.
Linda in SD