Help! I need your opinion

I've been working on digitizing a new alphabet - and need to make some decisions on which way to go.  I'd love some feedback.  The differences are in the green leaves/stems and the thin blue line that is part of the letter.  Survey at the end - but if you can't see it - feel free to leave comments.

OPTION 1: both are running stitch

OPTION 2: leaves/stems are running

OPTION 3: No running stitch

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Tiger Alphabet

OI've been working on variations of this for a while, but finally found an option that I'm happy with.

It is taking a while to fix the first cut at digitizing to make sure there are no jump stitches between the black stripes.   

I have the basic digitizing done on all the capital letters.   So I still need to add all the connecting stitches as shown in the first "A" picture above and then test them all out.

When you use an alphabet like this one, do you want lowercase, numbers or punctuation or just the capital letters?

One colour version

You can download the X and try it for free on my Craftsy store.  The rest of the alphabet is available to buy in PES, HUS, VIP or JEF formats.

I know everyone likes freebies - but just remember that this represents HOURS of my time.

Progressing on my Alphabets

I was a little busy last week so ignored my poor lonely machine.  No progress on my pillow stuffies or on my alphabets.

Yesterday I managed to find lots of time to play with the machine.  I decided to finish testing my Block Floral Alphabet.  Here are the results:

I had just finished uploading a free trial letter (actually 2 letters - the upper and lower case E) to my craftsy store when I decided to move my laptop to the living room so I could finish zipping and uploading the rest of the alphabet to the craftsy store while watching all the good Sunday night PBS shows.  

Alas when I got to the living room I noticed that there was something majorly wrong with the hinge on my laptop.   All thoughts of uploading the designs went out the window and instead I started a backup.

Luckily all the machine needed was the screws tightening - but that was a little scary!  I managed to get PES versions on my store last night - but haven't added any other formats yet.

Fast forward to today - I started testing my Broadway Applique alphabet  which I finished my first cut at digitizing yesterday.   The thread kept breaking so I decided to clean out the bobbin casing - while putting it back together, I managed to totally mess up the machine - not sure what I did, but decided to take it apart again, double check and watch carefully as I put things back.   Was careful about testing (tried some simple sewing before using the embroidery part of the machine) and everything was working great.   I'm hoping that machine problems don't come in threes!

I decided to stop for lunch - realized that I hadn't opened my fortune cookie from our take out last night.  How appropriate...

 The first hoop of test letters - 2 of them needed slight fixes to change the order of stitches and the S had issues - but those were related to all my maintenance on my machine and not being careful about how I restarted the embroidery ... but here's the result

I noticed that the material I was using for the applique - would go well with lots of different colours of thread so decided to try some different threads to see what the effect would be.

I'm happy with the results so far.  I still need to test the rest of the upper case letters, all of the lowercase letters, the numbers, and a select few punctuation that I decided to digitize.

More Pillow Stuffies: Wild Animals

I had to take a bit of a break from the pillow stuffy project as I had to make some custom made video game pillows.

I've received some good feedback from one of my testers so will be updating my instructions a bit.  I've slowly started listing them for sale on my Craftsy Store  but if there is one you want to buy - let me know and I can get it up on the store sooner rather than later.

This was the first of my new ones I made.

Not necessarily a success as not everyone can tell what it is right away - but I guess when you aren't a mainstream animal that is going to happen.

I was shopping on Friday and saw this material with the minky - a little bit stretchier - but every bit as soft.   The horns are felt.

I've been meaning to make a horse pattern and when I saw the zebra print - then I knew it was time.  My son said the mane at the top and the side should be connected so it's  more obvious that it's the continuation of the mane.

I modified the horse/zebra  pattern to include a full mane.

Let me know what you think.

More alphabet Digitizing

I've been playing around digitizing more alphabets.

I'd love to hear your opinion on these ones

I call this one Fiesta - It can be done with or without the applique.

This one is Block Floral font.  All stitched

UPDATE: On my Craftsy Store I have given a free sample (upper and lower case E) as well as listed the PES version for sale.   I hope to list the other formats in a few days.

This one is based on Broadway Font. It could also be done without the Applique, or I could try a fill or motif stitch.

What are your favorite Fonts to use in your embroidery projects?  Do any of the above thrill you?

Graffiti Alphabet from La Grange Aux Loups

Graffiti Alphabet from http://lagrange-aux-loups.over-blog.com    April  2015

NOTE: This is NOT my alphabet.  I am only linking to the individual blog entries for each letter to make it easier for people to find since not everyone is an expert in navigating blog sites - especially when they are in different languages.

You can start at one letter and scroll backwards or forewards - but there are some other designs in between.

Letter A 
Letter B 
Letter C 
Letter D
Letter E 
Letter F 
Letter G 
Letter H 
Letter I 
Letter J 
Letter K 
Letter L 
Letter M 
Letter N 
Letter O 
Letter P 
Letter Q
Letter R
Letter S
Letter T 
Letter U 
Letter V 
Letter W
Letter X 
Letter Y 
Letter Z 

Craftsy Store

I have started a Craftsy Store.

On there you can find some of my alphabets to be followed by my Pillow Stuffies.

Each of my Alphabets will have one random letter as a free sample.

I know everyone likes freebies  - but remember that it takes a lot of my time to create and test out my designs.

Alphabets:  
Patchwork Cross Stitch
B is available as a Free Trial

Disney Cross Stitch: Upper & lower case, punctuation and numbers
Lower Alphabet $4.50 US
Upper case Alphabet $4.50 US
Punctuation: $2 US
Numbers: $2US
Package Deal of Everything: $9.50 US
"Hi" is available as a Free Trial

Curly Ribbon: This alphabet contains Letters + Numbers

M is available as a Free Trial

Gold Panda Applique:  I have put a trial version so you can play around with the A.  I'm currently stitching out the numbers and punctuation to make sure that they work okay before uploading the alphabet.
A is available as a Free Trial