Welcome to Susa Glenn Designs and ArtFabric Studio! Please wander through and stay a while. The links will take you to some great sewing fun. There are Sewing Whimsies, whimsical soft sculptures that double as sewing accessories such as pin cushions, thread catchers and sewing chatelaines. We even have the sewing notions you will need if you want to make more than one of our projects! Don't miss Susa Glenn's obsession, digitized machine embroideries! Susa is the sewing project designer and the machine embroidery digitizer so the machine embroidery projects are really exceptional. Click on the pictures below to go to different areas in the store or use the links above and on the left.
Experience the Easy Freedom of working with paper machine embroidery designs templates and paper machine embroidery layout templates! Instructions will lots of pictures are here and here.
The
files available for download here have been
compressed into .ZIP format. You can UnZIP them using WinZip or WinRAR, or WinXP's 'Extract To' feature.
The Sewing Whimsies department includes all of the original ArtFabric Studio sewing projects for creating your very own menagerie of characters to populate your sewing domain. Of course, once you make one of ArtFabric Studio's Sewing Whimsies, you will want to make more so we have EXTRA PARTS available! You can make one for each of your sewing friends! Marie did just that. Don't miss the picture of the Can Can kick line of Catchit Frogs that Marie sent to me! Click onCatchit's pictureto see all of the frog shots. The Machine Embroidery Designs and Projects include all embroidery designs by Susa Glenn. These designs can be combined to create your own unique embroidered creations. Use these to embellish the projects offered here or on your own, whatever suits your fancy. The Bag Patterns and Kits department has all of the Susa Glenn Designs' Bag & Tote Kits. These kits don't include any fabric so you can use that wonderful piece you have been hoarding in your stash for just the right project. In addition to one of the bag patterns, each kit does include the hard to find notions so you can actually make the project! And after you make it and want to make more, come back here for more bag notions! You probably ought to bookmark this site.
Susa Glenn Designs' Sunflowers & Bees machine embroidery designs were recently featured in Creative Machine Embroidery's July/August 2009 edition! Please use this link to go to these designs.
Susa's Specials
NEW FREEBIE!
FREE!! Plain Buttonhole Sized For A 1.5” Button (added 2/5/2010) If
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This
download includes one digitized buttonhole in the following formats:
EXP, HUS, DST, EMD, JEF, PEC, PES, VIP, XXX. The digitized stitching
includes a narrow line of tiny stitches around the buttonhole opening
for interest. The underlay includes multiple lines of stitching that
run perpendicular to the top stitching. This buttonhole works well on
quilted fabric that has two layers of quilt weight fabric with low loft
quilt batting sandwiched in between. It is perfect to use for the
closure on a pillow back. 1.5” buttons-to-cover are perfect to use with this buttonhole! You can cover these buttons with your own fabric so that they will coordinate perfectly with your project.
If you
want to stipple the easy way, this is the way to go! My hands can't handle
free motion work because my joints are as old as I am so I let my embroidery
machine do the work for me. These designs are perfect for variegated thread!
This download includes a group of stippled right angle triangles
motifs. There are five sizes of "half square" (Quilter's Terminology)
triangle designs: 3”X9”, 4”X4”, 4”X6”, 5.75”X5.75”, 5.75”X8.75”. All designs
come in two stippling sizes, tiny and small, so there are a total of 10
digitized designs included in this download.
Wonderful things happen when you use these designs repeatedly as machine
quilting done with your embroidery machine! The effect is similar to
trapunto work with the void areas between the stitched designs puffing up and
creating wonderful depth and texture. You can make fabulous pillows, bags, and
other wonders with the quilted fabric!
All of the Stippling Embroideries are located with the Continuous Line
Embroideries. We have quite a collection of these fun and useful designs!
