Now that the pandemic is over receding, we really should find a roleplaying group again. Our (college-age) kid was in one Before, and I made these for the group. They came up in the “time to revise for new Ink/Stitch” rotation, and I remembered just how awful cutting out round snap tabs was – so […]
The Janome embroidery machine’s field is less than an inch bigger than the Brother’s longest dimension, but it’s square. That means a lot more space for valet tray embroidery. This week when I updated the valet tray designs and gave them their own page, I added a bigger size that maxes out the Janome’s field. […]
I feel like this is a rerun of Monday because here’s the promised freebie design, and also the mailman just delivered that Whelan tote and dice bag. And I’ve been working on a lot of mystery dragons so I don’t have much to show pictures of, either. Tomorrow’s a shop drop but I also don’t […]
My husband bought us all some “Vaccinated” pins because we’re in that weird limbo phase where we can now go un-masked most places, but also we aren’t always comfortable doing so and/or don’t want to pressure not-yet-vaxxed folks to unmask, but also we don’t want to imply that the mask means we’re not vaxxed, and […]
I’ve gotten a little stalled on revising the older snap tabs (as you may have noticed by the absence of posts the last couple Fridays) and the machine’s been tied up doing butterfly wings for so long that I haven’t done much with vinyl. But Gabe and Herbie needed some more snap tabs (and Gabe […]
Yep, it’s another little dragon fob, in dangle format this time. It’s an adaptation of a graphic from one of my favorite sources, the Noun Project. It’s the same technique I used for the water bottle carriers; the graphics are (alas) not line drawings, so I just remove the fill and running-stitch the outlines for […]
As teased in the article on resizing designs with Ink/Stitch, I have a little classic Mario pixel-art design as a freebie today. There are two versions: one in satin stitch, one in brick fill. In both cases, every other block is rotated 90 degrees. This has two effects: it keeps the “pixels” from running together, […]
Or too much hand sanitizer, these days. My old sanitizer holder doesn’t fit 2oz bottles, so I decided to break out the DLB foldover sanitizer holder design and make myself one. I didn’t want to mess around with anything fancy so I didn’t put a design on it. And I wanted it to be sturdy […]
When I made the pinched-corner version of the valet tray, I tried fitting it in a 4×4″ hoop. It really didn’t work with the size 20 snaps since they need to fit two to the corner square, with enough clearance to get past each other. The result is a center space that’s less than 2×2″ […]
A year or so ago, I stitched a couple of black background designs on felt rather than vinyl because the black vinyl was simply too glossy. It looked better, but I just wasn’t happy with the felt I had, so I mostly shelved those designs. But I got a tip about a kind of vinyl […]
