Archives for December 2009

Here are 4 new Applique Cafe designs to be added sometime tonight! We have the ART files back. Jeff took B hunting so we’ll get them uploaded later tonight and you can enjoy the 30% off savings on NEW designs! I’ve been getting GREAT suggestions as to new designs for 2010! Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to e-mail me! Some of them are already out there (on other sites), but some are ideas we’ll definitely get to work on! Thanks again!

I love this new fabric! Shown here w/ a bow…

BTW, I got Eclipse for Christmas so while I’m bored to death with no work to do, I’ve been reading! I hear the last Twilight book is the best, and I’ll have to wait til Summer for this movie, but it’s fun to have time to read! For some reason the werewolf stuff kind of bores me (sorry Jacob fans) but it’s a good read – I’m already halfway through. I’m definitely Team Edward all the way!!

Here is a new Applique Cafe design we’re working on, and the perfect opportunity to show you good stabilizing versus bad stabilizing! Can you tell which one is which? The LEFT (yellow on top) is definitely BAD!! I realized last night when I went to test it that I was out of my Sulky Medium Cutaway stabilizer, which is ALL I USE on shirts, samples and anything else where I can use cutaway! So, I tried a thinner version of cutaway (still Sulky) and you see what happens!! The fabric bubbles and looks pretty bad! I even used my Heat N Bond Lite and tried to iron over it, but the fabric is just too loose – the thin cutaway just isn’t enough support for the fabric and stitches! We also tweaked the cherry a bit, so I redid the ICE CREAM CONE just now after a trip to Hancocks to buy a pack of stabilizer! No sale and no coupon, so it hurt to pay full price, but definitely worth it until I can hit the next sale and stock up! As you can see on the RIGHT (blue gingham on top), good stabilizer makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE in the world!! It is flat and neat as can be!

Tomorrow is CHRISTMAS EVE,

and I hope everyone has a wonderful blessed Christmas 2009!!

I had to take a pic of my “bins”! As you can see, I have NO WORK left!! I’ve got a few shirts I may do for Garrison, only because the 74 in his closet simply aren’t enough!! My camera stays in a bin and then I have one bin of a few shirts that people have given me with no instructions til after Christmas. That’s IT!! What shall I do???? Tonight we’re wrapping presents, because as of yet we have not wrapped the FIRST ONE!! Nothing planned for tomorrow except for the Christmas Eve service at church and chili afterwards with Jeff’s family! I hope everyone has a great Christmas!