I've been playing with my embroidery machine and decided to get started on some Christmas gifts. These are free standing lace and I'm going to put one in all of my Christmas cards that I send out this year.

and more these are snowflakes and a 3d angel that I could not get a good pic of. It is three pieces that are put together.

Those are lovely. I have only tried to pieces of lace in my embroidery unit. I really love the angel. Maybe I will have to try and do some more sometime. Do yours come out really stiff too? Maybe my washaway stabilizer didn't all wash away.

Beautiful! Glad to see that I'm not the only one supporting Embroidery Library :oops:

Beautiful! I especially like the snowflakes!

Karen xx

They came out great!

They are beautiful!

No you are not the only one supporting Embroidery Library. I have bought several designs from them and have been very happy with them all.

Thanks.
Mine are just the right stiffness. I read somewhere that if they are too stiff you can just rinse them more. If they are not stiff enough you can take a couple of small scraps of your stabilizer and soak them in a small dish and add your design and it will make it stiffer.

Very nice! What a lovely idea. Your friends will enjoy them. If you have any left over, I can send you my addy.........

I would love to be added to your Christmas list. Those are gorgeous.

Very pretty! I didn't know you could make those with an embroidery machine.

Same here. They are great!

They are wonderful! They look like antique lace.

Really pretty-they would all be beautiful hanging on a Christmas tree

Thanks everyone for the kind remarks. I've found a lot of things that I didn't know an embroidery machine whould do. I'm really loving my new machine and have been making a lot of gifts. In fact my DH just said yesterday when are you going to make something for us to keep. :-)

They are beautiful. Do you still have my address?

Excellent job!

I have that angel and made them last year. Did you get the 2D from embroidery library? Have you made Marie Osmonds angel? It's gorgeous.

I'm making some this year too. I posted 2 of them in my post boys pillowcases.

Ohh those are AWESOME!!! How pretty! I just love the Angels, especially the 3-D one!!

Those would be so fun to find in a card! Really pretty!

Yes the 3d angel did come from Embroidery library. Do you have a web addy for the Marie Osmond angel. I really liked the ones that you posted.

The Marie Osmond one is no longer available. I got it over a year ago.

The ones I posted is not the Marie Osmond one, it was a freebie somewhere, but I can't remember where. If I find it again, I'll let you know.

Here is a free FSL mitten and angel. I have stitched out this angel many times.

http://www.myembroideryhaven.com/angels.html

http://www.myembroideryhaven.com/ornaments2.html

scroll down to the very bottom.

Also try this site reguarding ornaments

http://forums.marthapullen.com/read....82683&t=182491

I just bought the Marie Osmond CD from Ebay for about $25.00. It has some gorgeous designs!!!

What type of machine are you making them on? I have the Brother SE270 and never would have thought to try somethng like that on the machine. They are beautiful !

sharon b, I'm not sure who you are asking, but I have a bernina and the designs are for machine embroidery and are done on WSS (water soluable stabilizer).

Excuse me for so many questions, but could you explain a little bit more? No fabric, just the stablizer in the frame ? Mine is a 4x4 frame , would it work on this machine or do you need a bigger frame? Thanks for your help.

Wow are you lucky or what.... you got a lot of choices there....

WOw those are nice great job I would love to have those.

Love them.

sharon b (and anyone else) FSL designs come in al sizes. Most will fit the 4 X 4 frame.

I usually use H2gone from walmart, it's $177 a yard. What you do is hoop just the WSS (make sure it is taught in the hoop) and send your design to your machine and stitch it out. Then after it is done, remove it from the hoop and trim the excess off and rince well in warm water and let it dry.

You can use badgemaster for a stiffer ornament.

Badgemaster is also a WSS and looks like a thick plastic wrap. The H2gone looks like teeny tiny holed fabric. You could also use a piece of tuelle on top of the WSS for more stabilization, but I don't normally.

PM me if you have any more questions as I don't want to hijack this post.

Sharon, I also have a Brother machine and mine only takes the 4x4 hoop. Most of these designs were from Embroidery Library and this is also my first time doing the fsl. You shouldn't have any trouble. You just stitch them out on water soliable stabalizer that you can get at Walmart. The design has to be one that has been ditigitized for FSL. Then you cut away the excess and rinse under running water then just let dry. You can PM me if you have any more questions or if I can be of further help.

CCbear: I can send you my addy so you can send me Christmas cards with all your embroidery pieces. :lol: How wonderful they look and what a great idea for your cards. Thanks for sharing.

Very Nice!! I wonder if my friend Sherrie has ever tried these with her embroidery machine...I'll have to ask her. Those will be nice in Christmas cards.

very very nice..... I hope I'm on your car list lol
Keep up the good work kiddo. They are awesome

ccbear they are gorgeous!! I especially love the snowflakes!!!

Thanks everyone and if you will pm me your address I'll make sure to add you to my card list and you will get one. You have all been so great to me that it is the least that I can do.

I'm with ccbear! I love to send Christmas cards stuffed with fsl ornaments! I've done this for about 3 years now and everyone looks forward to getting different ornaments each year...And I am grateful for everyone's friendship here at the board as well as all the advice, recipes, pictures, etc. :!: