Edgar at Blacksheep's Bit of the Web has some interesting information on this Year of the Horse. He is in San Francisco where there is a big Asian population. This means that there is a huge parade and of course he has some insights into it simply based on location and an inquiring mind.
You probably know that I had already done the "Horse of a Different Color" in a couple of ways.
Today I found royalty free clip art of some horses and started working on digitizing them
Here are the two that I have finished and sewn out.
The top one fits in a 4" by 4" hoop and the lower one fits in a 5" by 7" hoop (to give you a size perspective.)
I am thinking of making a wallhanging using various horses. The digitizing of them is interesting. It takes some time but I can get what I want more than using pre-digitized designs.
Do you do machine embroidery? Do you digitize your own designs?
I am curious to know more about my readers. I love it when you share about yourselves in your comments.
And a late addition to the post:
Comments are welcomed. I will reply when possible unless otherwise stated.
Love your horses. It looks like digitalizing is fun.
ReplyDeleteLove the horses.
ReplyDeleteI do not digitize. I don't have an embroidery machine. I have had the pleasure of working on some wonderful Janome machines. Myeyes just glaze over when digitizing comes up. LOL I am sure if I got the basics down I would have fun, but I just haven't gotten that far.
Very interesting designs. I just discovered your blog via the Quixotic Crafter. I am a quilter and machine embroiderer. I have not digitized much due to mainly lack of ideas. I am pretty proficient with my software but haven't done much beyond editing. Your horse designs have given me some ideas! Thank you. Claudia W
ReplyDeleteLike Beth's comment, I don't have the machine to do this, but it is lovely. I think I'll stick with my basic mechanical machine, but I'll be watching to see what you do with your more sophisticated machine!
ReplyDeleteLove Love Love the horses Gene.
ReplyDeleteI am now getting back into machine embroidery. Just upgraded my machine to the Quattro 3. I have not done any digitizing yet but I do have PE Design Next software that I am starting to learn. I'll let you know it goes :)
loved all the horses, especially the multi colored full horse. too bad the Bronco did not win in the year of the horse-lol
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