Madeira Treasure Chest promotion!

OMG USD399!!!!!!! Seem expensive but the thing is they bundled with Amazing Bundle & Greatest Hit!!!!!!! WOOOOW i wana ship this over.

But dont know choose which color. African Ebony OR American Cherry?????


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I have done it! PHEW

Nice?????????

I dont think I want to do this for $$$ because its really time consuming. I spend ONE whole day (serious) doing this from scratch. The ribbon n flowers are done by Daniel's sister. :P

If I am doing this for $$$, I think $100 will fit the price of this pillow. Sound expensive right? But material cost is really very expensive. Plus designs plus the testing out of the names etc on the satin material. All this take time. I think I have spend no less than 2 days in time to work from stabilising the items, testing out tension, design, names etc for the pillow. Really time consuming.

So I dont think I will do this gain. Unless, I am on very close r/s with the couple.

Someone said this is not nice.......... so most probably dropping this

This rose too out so drop this. COlor combination is for fun first. Testing out design is my 1st priority. Threads are expensive so I wont use those smaller cones to try.

This is another design. Maybe I choose something from this set or what ba.........

The date is out because either i put outside of the heart or before/above the name...... I am thinking of using metallic threads throughout but its too expensive........ somemore shipped from US. I am not sure if I should use them. If i use them, how much should I charge......
This is my Ring pillow test out....done a few........ just anyhow use the threads as threads are very expensive too so cannot afford to waste them.

The heart is slanted too but thats because I didnt use the sticky stabiliser which is also...... more expensive. *faint*.

Embroidery Stuffs

These are the items I bought from US and SIL very nice to help me bring them back.... Cannot get them in Sg. I saw something similar (Stabiliser) at a place but they are full of dust, very old packaging like never sell out for yearsss and they are very very expensive. One small pack already 50$++

The black stuff with some metal rodes is a thread stand. This is very good! I bought one from SG and then the stand always fall Zzzzzm and the thread holder cannot hold the thread.... so this is really wow, very good thread holder!!!

These are the pretty AND EXPENSIVEEEEEEE metallic threads... pretty pretty.... but the 2 packs one sala le.

And then that roll of tape is AMAZING Tape. Said to wrap ard threads and also books/pipes etc... all the funny things and why its so amazing? it can be reused. I just tried it. Not bad.

Ring Pillow II Testout

I have increased the fonts, using normal and very little amt of gold threads for the test out. The fonts will be too big for a 5" pillow but will be okay for a 8" pillow. I am not sure if I want to amend the layout of the names

I am unsure if I should use 20.09.2009 or 20 Sept 2009. Given a choice, I will choose the alphanumeric fonts.... but since they chosen this unique date, it seem a waste to discard the numeric <20.09.2009>

Headacheeeeeeeeeeeee

The doves arent that nice......... the outline makes it ugly and its not aligned with the satin stitches. Thus, I am going to drop this design.

p/s I am testing this on red satin but actual pillow is cream or white satin. I just want to see the embroidery designs on a satin material............. thus i tested it on the red satin.

My sewing corner........

顺便拍我的“针车”.... my mini sewing corner is just next to my mini computer table

Embroidered Towels (Swap)

These towels are meant for a swap........... Very busy so no choice but to delay it for mths since Feb.

These designs are pretty big using the bigger hoop. Per design is > 30mins and this excludes the time spent for changing threads colors/stabiliser/bobbin etc. In all, if nothing screw up, it will take abt 1hr each and if something screw up, might be more than 1.5hrs for per design (exclude fonts). So u see, very waste of time. and u cannot really go away from the machine. Sometimes the machine foot get jammed or stucked because of the top stabiliser used. if i dont use stabiliser, i wont face such problem but the thread might 'sink in' into the towels and the end result is not nice.

Some threads are not well shown as the stabiliser hasnt been washed off/dissolved.

This is the failed towel. Failed because of the Fairy eyes.... something wrong with the design so cant be helped. Since I already embroidered on it, then just pass to the swap partner.

There is this tiny portion of the brown dino face outside of the outline... cant be helped le... i am now getting less confident embroidering on towels. They tend to move more on the hoop. And when there's outlines for that particular design, i'm worried that the outlines might fall out of the satin stitches... piang ehh.

One dino takes abt 38mins for embroidery time, excluding all the misc time spent. I dont think I want to do towels anymore if I can. Waste of time. Otherwise do on small items......... then this makes me think, what or why the shit did i buy this machine to waste my time?!?!

But well, it can do designs that normal machines can never do and i can do customisation. *self console*

This is the test out of the Ring Pillow I am going to do for my friend. I will have to enlarge the font size and figure out how to reposition the names.