My mother had asked me to dress up one of her plain white skirts. Not surprisingly, she requested that I embroider flowers on the skirt. She loves flowers. Initially, she wanted the flowers placed near the bottom, but I told her it might appear better if they were embroidered onto the pockets. The machine embroidery […]
Earlier today, I was able to complete the embroidered design I started a few days ago. So yes, the dreaded thread shedding is now a memory. I hope it becomes a distant memory. I will say the only issue I experienced was going over already completed stitches in the word ‘attitude.’ However, I was expecting […]
Yesterday, I wrote about the error message I received with my Brother Designio Series DZ820E. Unlike the first time I received this error message, I was unable to fix the issue. However yesterday evening, I was able to solve the problem. Since then, I’ve embroidered two designs without the thread shredding! Whee! Of course I’m […]
Earlier today, while attempting to embroider a new design, I stumbled upon an error message that said something like this… Brother Designio Series DZ820E Error Message Check and rethread upper needle If I’d thought about it, I would have taken a picture of the error message, but that was the last thing on my mind. […]
Yesterday, my Brother Designio Series DZ820E arrived. Of course, I wanted to open it up immediately, but I was hanging out with my daughter. In fact, my daughter finally asked me to open the box. Besides hanging out with my daughter the honeybees kept me occupied (for a bit) so I didn’t get to test […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about sewing, but the recent flurry of activity making costumes for my Lutheran chuches Passion Play has pulled me in again. Currently the last pieces of the costumes are doing their final tumbling act into the washing and drying machine. Then they’ll be pressed, hung, labeled and sent […]
Although I still haven’t got my mojo back for completing my ruffled shirt, I’m going full steam ahead with the machine embroidery. Last evening, I decided to start making an updated lunch bag for my daughter’s Zojurishi lunch jar. And so I sat behind my Brother Designi0 DZ820E and let the machine take over… […]