After the Holidays

Winter is the perfect time to sew, quilt and embroider. Spend some time reading the owner's manuals for your machine and software, or work you way through a tutorial. Now that the pressure is off, try a new technique or stitch that fabulous project you never had time for.

Spend a little time organizing your embroidery designs. If your CD does not include a printed guide that shows the designs, use Buzz Tools or Embird to print thumbnails.

Keep the designs on your hard drive organized into folders. If you missed the free folders, download them by clicking here. Extract these folders to your hard drive. The zip file will appear to contain a single file repeated over and over, but if you extract the entire archive, the folders will magically appear wherever you saved them. You may delete the authorship.txt file in each folder. The folders would not zip unless there was something inside them. The set of folders includes a place for website URLs, tips, project instructions and tutorials. You can change folder names or add more folders as the need arises.

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from Mary Jane Allen of Perfect Little Stitches

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Velcro Shoes

Heart N Sole's Velcro closure baby
shoe design is the perfect "Mary Jane"
for your little sweetheart. This shoe can
be completed in about an hour, made
with one or two fabrics, plus one style
of ribbon or lace, to match almost any
outfit. Add a heel loop for a Christmas
ornament. Her name and birthday can
be sewn on the bottom of the sole.
The inside sole features a heart.
Design includes detailed instructions.
For 5x7 hoops.

Holy SuperBOBs

A set of 35 colors of L-style SuperBOBs
packed into a BobbinSaver donut. Made with
The Bottom Line 60 wt. polyester. Very convenient
for portability. The Bottom Line is fantastic for hand
and machine appliqué, bobbin thread, detailed
top thread, binding, and dental floss.