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Baby Lock educators #6

 Another great Baby Lock educator is Lori Hernandez.  She has been to Sewingly Yours teaching a class. Very delightful and full of energy!  She is proficient in embroidery, sergers, IQ Designer and sewing. 

1. Find her Facebook page here.  It seems to be a mixture of her personal page and projects from her business.  It is interesting to read.   

2.  Her Instagram page here seems to be more about her business.  She also runs the Serger Fun Club with Embroider Shoppe.  She has great projects. 

3.  She does have a website located here.  In Baby Lock Tech 2022, she taught a class on setting up the hexie files.  If you like hexies, you can crank out a bunch with your embroidery machine.  She then sews them together with a zigzag stitch on the sewing machine.  Fast way to do hexies.  

4.  Check out her blog here.  It has many videos about IQ Designer and I just discovered she has one detailing how to create fills for the Big Dream Panel on the Solaris.  I need to go watch that one!  

5. She also is on You Tube.  Her channel is here.  You can also do a search on her name and find her on other channels also.  

Lots of education and project inspiration on her website and social media channels.  Check it out. 

Until next time, Happy Sewing! 

Janet

Baby Lock Educators #5

 Another fun Baby Lock educator is Missy Billingsley.  Her expertise area includes embroidery, sergers, sewing and IQ Designer.  

1. Find her website here.    You can find free embroidery designs here.  

2. She has a Facebook page here.   You will have to join her page.  She has a lot of files that you can download under the files tab. Some are embroidery files and others are instructions to make different projects.  She has a digitized design of the Solaris there also.   Check out the media > videos tab for her video lives.  She has them frequently. 

3.  She has a You Tube channel here and you can also do a search on her name to find more videos.  She does them when she is visiting and teaching around the country. 

She has an entertaining personality and gives lots of tips and techniques.  Very inspirational with great ideas.  Check her out! 

Until next time, Happy Sewing!

Janet

Baby Lock Educators #4

 The next educator is Evy Hawkins from A Bit of Stitch.  She does embroidery design and works with the Shashiko sewing machine.  

1. Her website is here.    Be sure to sign up for the newsletter.  She gives lots of discounts and will tell you about them in the newsletter.  She also has many lamb designs and I love her hedgies!

2. You can also find her on Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook.  Links are located on her website.  

3,  She has lots of free videos here.  

Her newsletter always makes me laugh.  Be sure to check it out along with her blog.  She has an enjoyable sense of humor!

Until next time, Happy Sewing!  

Janet

Baby Lock Educators #3

 The third Baby Lock educator that I would like to tell you about is Ashley Lienhart.  She specializes in longarm quilting and Prostitcher Software as well as embroidery and sergers.  She has a very energetic personality and you can tell that she loves what she is doing.  So nice to have a young person enjoying sewing. 

1. Ashley works with Denise Schober with the webinars for ProStitcher. Both of them are fantastic.  

2. Her website can be found here.   The Facebook page is here. She also has a You Tube site here.  

Deb Canham - Baby Lock Educator #2

 Continuing on with the series of Baby Lock Educators, the next one is Deb Canham.  

She specializes in sergers and does a lot of decorative stitching. 

1.  Most Monday nights, Deb can be found having a Facebook Live.  These are extremely educational and entertaining.  She also has lots of information under the Files section.   Search on Facebook for Deb Canham Serger Sanity. You will need to join the group. 

2.  Find her website here and she has a You Tube channel here.  

Until next time, Happy Sewing. 

Janet

 

Baby Lock Partners - EmbroiderShoppe and Zandra Shaw #1

 I did not get to go to Baby Lock Tech this year since I was in Alaska so I was reading up on the information that Teresa gave me today.  

I have long said that Baby Lock has better training than any of the other sewing machine companies that I have checked out.  

I was reading the list of educators and thought about how much knowledge those educators have.  I plan to add an educator to my blog every day until I go through all of the educators listed.  

I will try to give you their social media sites and websites and other special information.  Most of them have free designs that you can download and all of them have lots of inspiration for you.  

I am starting with Zandra Shaw and EmbroiderShoppe.  They have been a partner with Baby Lock for about 3 years and have some of the most creative embroidery designs that I have seen. 

1.  Beyond the Frame is a program that is free to join.  Zandra Shaw has a webinar every month with a new project technique.  The design is generally $5 at the webinar. Check out the link here.

2.  The website has lots of free designs.  You can download all of them free if you are a member of the Beyond the Frame program.  Look at the free designs here. 

3. Take a look at their website.  From there, you can look at their Facebook page as well as Instagram, Twitter, You Tube and Pinterest.  

Check it out!  

Until next time, Happy Sewing! 

Janet

Are you new to Pro-Stitcher?? Here are some great sources to learn.

 

Pro-Stitcher Lite came on the market to Baby Lock customers in 2021.  We took off with the product and many people are trying to learn it.   Here are some great sources for learning all versions of Pro-Stitcher.  

1.   Baby Lock has great videos on the SEWED program.  

                Pro-Stitcher Premium can be found HERE. 

                Pro-Stitcher Lite can be found HERE. There are many more on the way.  

                Pro-Stitcher Designer can be found HERE.  

2. Pro-Stitcher.com has a great learning site.  You can also print off the manuals for each of these products on this site.   

                Pro-Stitcher Premium education can be found HERE. 

                Pro-Stitcher Lite education can be found HERE. 

                Pro-Stitcher Designer education can be found HERE. 

3. HandiQuilter.com also has lots of information on long arm and Pro-Stitcher. 

                HERE is a link to their free downloads page with resources about tension and quilting on a long arm.  

                I have also learned a lot from HandiQuilter's You Tube channel.  They have some great info on tension, stitching, loading a quilt as well as Pro-Stitcher videos HERE. 

4.  You Tube has great videos also.  

                Adam Sew Fun is a great one.   Look HERE.

                MK Quilts University also has a lot of information.  Look HERE.

I have been using 3 different machines - two Coronets with Pro-Stitcher Lite and a Regalia with Pro-Stitcher Premium since last March.  I have quilted over 60 quilts with very few problems.  There is a huge learning curve and I have also learned many work arounds to get it to what I want to do.  Currently, I am using the beta version of Pro-Stitcher Connect and have had very few issues.  

Until next time, Happy Sewing. 

Janet

 Still working on the long arm for quilts at Sewingly Yours.  Here are a few recent customer quilts. 

This chicken quilt was the most adorable thing!! 

Long Arm Quilting

 I have been really busy working at Sewingly Yours.   In March, we started doing long arm quilting for our customers.  Here are a few pictures of some quilts that I have finished.  

Sew much FUN!!

Thank you to those who have brought quilts in.  I have really enjoyed working on your masterpiece. 

Until next time, Happy Sewing. 

Janet

Cover Stitch Machines -- Check It Out!

 I am doing some research on ways to use your cover stitch machine and have found lots of great information at the following websites.  

Melly Sews

Baby Lock

Cover stitch in the Round

Anita by Design

Getting to know your cover stitch machine

Threads Monthly

Decorative stitching on cover stitch machine

A cover stitch machine is not only for knit fabrics.  I use it as decoration with all types of specialty threads on tote bags. I also use it for finishing edges on 2 hammocks that I made for the long arm machines at Sewingly Yours.  I made them out of  woven fabric and use them to keep the quilts from dragging the floor. You can see it at the bottom of the picture here.  

Check it out.  Until next time, Happy Sewing! 

Janet

Pro-Stitcher Premium and Pro-Stitcher Lite

 I have had the Pro-Stitcher Lite on my Coronet for over a year now plus we have one at Sewingly Yours. I have many hours working with this set up and have learned a lot over the last 13 months. 

Communication between the encoders and machine seems to be one of the biggest problems  The encoders can be too tight or too loose or have places on the track that they do not touch. There can be some connections issues and the green lights on the encoders do not come on.   

Here are some very helpful links that I have used to get more information: 

1. Handiquilter has lots of information on their website. The link below is about communications.  

https://support.handiquilter.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058162571-Pro-Stitcher-Communication

2. Download the Baby Lock installation manual HERE.  Look in the back for trouble shooting tips.  

3. This is an interesting document from a man who has made many modifications.  Read the very last page for encoder information.  I found him on a Facebook group for Pro-Stitcher Lite.  Find his document HERE.  

4. Here is a You Tube about what to do if your machine will not stitch.  It just moves around.  Find it HERE.  Please note that with Pro-Stitcher Lite you will have to set up your frame space if you have to reconnect the motors.  I generally try the "Reconnect Machine" first and, if it does not work, I go back and try to "Reconnect Motors."   Pro-Stitcher Premium does not have to set up a frame space so that is why she did not have to reset it. 

That's all for now.  

Until next time, Happy Sewing! 

Janet

On the Pro-Stitcher Today!

 Pro-Stitcher Lite gets easier and easier.  If you have one, just stick with it and you will learn more and more.  

This is the Flutterbys design on a Riley Blake pillow.  (Making a sample for Sewingly Yours.) 

No hiccups other than a couple of problems that I created for myself!  

Until next time, Happy Sewing!  

Janet

This week's projects

 This week's projects include a cute baby boy quilt.  

A project for Sewingly Yours.    Hint -  Riley Blake

A zippered pouch from my serger feet class 

There's more to come. 

Until next time, Happy Sewing! 

Janet

 Just finished the Kimberbell Wallhanging for "One Sweet Spring."  It is on display at the store.  We will be having a class to teach this on March 11th and 25th.  Check it out at Sewingly Yours website.  

Check it Out! - Free Embroidery Projects

 I was just looking at Baby Lock's website and I was blown away about all of the changes.  If you have not looked at it lately, please check it out. 

I have been following Zandra from the EmbroiderShoppe since she did some sessions at Baby Lock Tech.  It is a sister team from South Africa and they have wonderful designs.  

They have a program called "Beyond the Frame" with Baby Lock and free designs are provided monthly. Yes, you heard correctly  ---  FREE. 

Check out the page HERE. 

Until next time, Happy Sewing. 

Check it Out! -- Free patterns

 Here are some really cute Fall and Thanksgiving designs FREE from Baby Lock. 

Check it out. 

https://babylock.com/learn-and-create/projects/gobble-it-up

https://babylock.com/learn-and-create/projects/serger-pumpkin

https://babylock.com/learn-and-create/projects/give-thanks-table-runner-apron

https://babylock.com/learn-and-create/projects/floral-pumpkin-quilt

https://babylock.com/learn-and-create/projects/quilted-pumpkin-table-runner

https://babylock.com/learn-and-create/projects/fall-leaves-wall-quilt

Until next time, Happy Sewing!  

Janet

Recent Projects

 Here are some other things that I have been working on over the past few weeks.  

Just finished this for a friend of mine. 

I was recently able to take the certification class for Kimberbell.  Our shop has been certified for over 4 years by one of the shop owners, Teresa Conrad and another lady who has since "retired."  I am officially legal and will be teaching the "No Place Like Home" pillow again for the third time in July.  

It is scheduled for Sat and Sun, July 23 and 24 and we can open a few more spaces if you are interested.  Go to our website to sign up at sewinglyyours.net.  

Here are some more projects from the class that I have finished.  

One is from the Red, White and BBQ Spark event and I absolutely love this apron.  

The other project is from the North Pole event that is coming out later this year.  It is the sparkly lights that are draped on the apron in the top picture.  You use the fairy lights with a snowflake that is embroidered.  

That's all for now.  Until next time, Happy Sewing.

Janet

Shop Sample for Sewingly Yours - Ruby Star Society Birthday Panel

Under the needle yesterday and finished last night is a shop sample for Sewingly Yours.  It is using the Ruby Star Society Birthday Panel.  Someone else did the piecing, I just used the Coronet and ProStitcher Lite to do the quilting. Now for squaring it up and adding the binding.   

 Until next time, Happy Sewing!  

Janet

Cute zippered pouch on Brother Sews Facebook page

Saw this cute zippered pouch and design on the Brother Sews Facebook page today.  It includes the directions for the Brother machine but the Baby Lock Solaris can follow the same directions.  

Sew cute with the embroidery.  I am looking for a tool pouch that I can make for work and when I am sewing.  Maybe I can adapt this??  

Check out the link.  

 https://www.brother-usa.com/blogs/stitching-sewcial/free-design-march-quilted-zipper-bag?fbclid=IwAR3dazCf_Ia2lwzf5RIkpY6LQVwrkH-p1yBs5g14pdZC3w5wpyL6NIHxR8g

Until next time, Happy Sewing! 

Janet