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:
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6 comments:
Love your horses. It looks like digitalizing is fun.
Love the horses.
I 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
Like 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!
Love Love Love the horses Gene.
I 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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