Author Archives: ymenear

About ymenear

I have been sewing my entire life. I love sewing of all types but recently I have focused on quilting and machine embroidery. I am an educator for quilting and embroidery design software and I own and operate a machine embroidery club that teaches students how to use their machine effectively while creating their own unique projects. I love travel and getting to know people from different regions and seeing how they create projects with their machines.

ARTISTIC DIGITIZER Part 4: SHAPE PLAYTIME

Posted on July 20, 2018 by ymenear

Can’t draw? Neither can I! So I frequently use shape tools built into the Artistic Digitizer program to create designs for embroidery. These shapes can stay as they are or can be edited/skewed to create a new shape. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in Artistic Digitizer | Tagged EDGE STITCHING, edit nodes, EMBROIDERY DESIGNS, fill stitches, reshape, stitch properties | 2 Comments

ARTISTIC DIGITIZER Part 3: FONT SHAPE AND SIZE VARIATIONS

Posted on July 16, 2018 by ymenear

Get funky with fonts using the Artistic Digitizer software! Fonts don’t have to be boring. You can get as creative as you want with the editing capacity of the Artistic Digitizer software. Open your Artistic Digitizer program and create a … Continue reading →

Posted in Artistic Digitizer | Tagged Creativity, editing, Embroidery, fonts, Janome Artistic Digitizer, Janome Embroidery software, text, Textured fabric digitized and embroidered | 8 Comments

ARTISTIC DIGITIZER Part 2: Text Images

Posted on June 27, 2018 by ymenear

You can construct your own creative embroidery designs with Artistic Digitizer software and the fonts built into your font folder on your computer. Not all text is letters. You may have a font that is images or symbols rather than … Continue reading →

Posted in Artistic Digitizer | Tagged Circular array, CREATE AND DESIGN ANYWHERE ANYTIME, EMBROIDERY SOFTWARE, fonts, Janome Artistic Digitizer, Janome embrodiery software | 2 Comments

Part 1 in our new series on ARTISTIC DIGITIZER: Fabulous Fonts

Posted on June 22, 2018 by ymenear

Text on computers is usually referred to as being ‘fonts’. The fonts can be letters, numbers, or images stored in our font folder on our computer. Artisitc Digitizer can read any font in your computer font folder. Artistitc Digtizer also … Continue reading →

Posted in Artistic Digitizer | Tagged Artistic Digitzer, fonts, janome embroidery, monograms, text tool | 2 Comments

EDUCATOR PICK OF THE MONTH: Buttons & buttonholes

Posted on May 29, 2018 by ymenear

We featured a plaid project earlier this month made by our Educator in Montreal ( see our GLAD YOU ASKED THAT post on 8 May 2018) which must be completed in order to be able to wear it. Janome’s computerized sewing … Continue reading →

Posted in JANOME BUTTONHOLES | Tagged Button holes with Janome, Janome button sewing foot T, Janome tips & tricks, Sewing Janome Buttonholes | 3 Comments

JANOME ACUFEED FLEX……what exactly is this and why do I need it?

Posted on May 8, 2018 by ymenear

GLAD YOU ASKED THAT! ……….Have you ever considered working with a plaid fashion fabric? With this type of fabric you need to match the fabric print lines when you assemble the garment for a professional look. Start your work with … Continue reading →

Posted in Janome Acufeed Flex | Tagged Janome Acufeed Flex, Janome Acufeed Flex (walking foot), Janome Acufeed flex foot AD, Janome Acufeed Flex single prong foot, Top stitching with Janome Acufeed flex | 6 Comments

CREATING FOR CHARITY: FABRIC POSTCARDS WITH THE JANOME 500E

Posted on May 4, 2018 by ymenear

While doing a demo at a local sewing show, I was using the Janome Memory Craft 500E embroidery only machine. This is a wonderful embroidery machine that can create designs in all sizes of hoops from small to extra large. … Continue reading →

Posted in Janome Sewing Machine | Tagged #Quilt Canada 2018, BC Childrens Hospital charity initiative by CQA, cardmaking, CQA Postcard Challenge, EMBROIDERY SOFTWARE, Fabric postcards with Janome, Tutorial on embroidered fabric post cards, Tutorials | Comments Off

JANOME SUPPORTS YOUNG SEWERS

Posted on May 2, 2018 by ymenear

Competition was rampant at a recent BC Skilled Trades event at the Tradex Center in Abbotsford, BC. Technical trade schools along with different companies supported and aided youth from high schools and post-secondary schools in a timed event where the … Continue reading →

Posted in JANOME SERGERS | Tagged Fashion, GARMENT SEWING, JANOME 1600P, JANOME PRO4DX SERGER, Janome sponsors Skills BC, Sergers, SEWING COMPETITION, Skills BC, STUDENT COMPETITION | Comments Off

EDUCATOR PICK OF THE MONTH–QO FOOT

Posted on April 30, 2018 by ymenear

I love to free motion quilt. I don’t get to worried about making the perfect stitch shapes. I think of it more as doodling or scribbling. But, I do like to see where I am going and how close I … Continue reading →

Posted in QUILTING | Tagged Free Motion Quilting, Janome Free Motion, Janome QO open toe foot, OPEN TOE QUILTING FOOT, Quilting | 8 Comments

JANOME RULER WORK FOOT QR AND QUILTING WITH RULERS

Posted on April 24, 2018 by ymenear

Quilting with rulers is a very ‘hot’ technique. It is not so easy to stitch a freehand pattern, so Janome makes it easy for you to work with the ruler work function on the machine. For some models of Janome sewing … Continue reading →