Little Dress Panto

I think I've found a new obsession. I've been having so much fun playing with creating an embroidery design in PEDesign/Palette Version 8 and, through a series of steps, converting the embroidery to a format that can be sewn on my Babylock Jewel quilting machine.

Here's the little dress embroidery design as it was created in PED/PAL V8.



And here it is as a pantograph, ready for the computer to tell the Jewel to quilt it across the quilt. Click on the image to see it much better.


Here's the second embroidery design I did. I call it Puff Sleeve Dress. And below it is the panto, ready for the quilting machine. Click on the image for a better view.




This is just too much fun for a cool Sunday afternoon. I think I'll have to clean off the quilting machine/frame and just give this a test stitching!

Getting Back To It

Well it looks like I need to get back to blogging!

Sharon (the Quilt Didio) suggested the members of Jewels in Motion keep blogs to share our quilting ideas and projects using the Babylock Jewel and Crown Jewel as well as the QuiltMotion software.

I'll have dig around and find some pictures of quilts I've made. Surely there's a few somewhere. How 'bout this one to start. I made this for my sister, Margaret, who loves cats. It was a lot of fun to make and everyone loves it.