Today the Embroidery Cruise group spent a fabulous day in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Some of the group toured the Rainforest and the rest of us toured Old San Juan and New San Juan.  It was very interesting, with a lot of history, beautiful buildings and even some familiar spots like Starbucks and Burger King!

Leaving the harbor tonight in San Juan was absolutely beautiful. Visiting Puerto Rico was a lot of fun and tomorrow is Grand Turk.  I have been told that the beach at Grand Turk is extremely beautiful!  I am looking forward to spending the afternoon on the beach with so much warm sun and perfect weather!

Yesterday we visited St. Thomas.  With all of his beauty, St. Thomas is only 13 miles long and 2.5 miles wide.  In our tour we learned a lot about the native plants and all of their medicinal purposes along with a lot of history about the island.

Tuesday I taught embroidery classes about Working with Stock Designs, Saving time in Design Creation and Working with Small Lettering. Saturday we are having classes about Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Website Creation.

I have really enjoyed teaching the classes. The embroiderers that are on the cruise are such an incredible group of individuals from every walk of life.  They are from all over the US including Alaska and Hawaii and cover so many different niche markets. It has been such a blessing to me to be able to get to know each one of them. I am really looking forward to Saturdays classes.

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach

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Brenda Adams, one of my students, won a “Monogram Wizard” contest for a pillow that she entered.  This pillow is being featured on the back cover of “Designs In Machine Embroidery” magazine.  Brenda stated that she learned a lot from my Underlay class and applied those skills to designing and sewing out this pillow.

Brenda also took my “How To Create Monograms” class and was very creative in putting this monogram design together for this pillow.  She did a beautiful job and I am so proud of Brenda; this is a huge accomplishment.

The picture on the lower right of the dark gold pillow is Brenda’s.  She was in a fabric store shopping and picked up the magazine and saw her pillow on the back and was extremely surprised and excited.  I cannot even imagine the feelings that she went through when she saw her picture on the back cover of that magazine.

If it had been me, I am sure that everyone in the store would have know about it at the time, but Brenda is not like me, she is a bit more quiet!

I just wanted to share this with everyone. What a way to start off the New Year!   Brenda definitely needs to be congratulated on her accomplishment!

Thank you Brenda for sharing your win with all of us!

Joyce Jagger
Your Embroidery Coach

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This past weekend I had the opportunity to work at a small trade show in Albany, NY with Ken Chadwick that represented the Stahl’s Products line and Jeff Hajenski that represented embroidery and screen printing machines from Hirsch International.

This was an extremely busy show, especially on Saturday, and I had the privilege of visiting with some of the embroiderers that I had trained and it was really exciting listening to them as they were telling me about their success.

I want to tell you about one in particular. Marjorie Corrow, of Life’s A Stitch Embroidery , a single mom with 2 young daughters has been in business 5 years and grew from a single head embroidery shop…..

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