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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Tonight is our Embroidery Webinar of the Month.  I am going to be teaching you “How To Create Beautiful Monograms Using Your True Type Fonts!” 

You may be wondering, What is a true type font?  There are two types of files that have been installed on your computer that are available to you when you do your word processing.  One is a True Type font and the other one is an Open Type Font.  The true type fonts will always work for embroidery, but sometimes the open type font will work also.  In many embroidery software programs they are interchangeable.

Sometimes the open type font will work in one version of the embroidery program and yet will not not work in another version.  Some of the open type fonts that are available will work great in Version 11 of the Tajima by Pulse DGML software but Version 12 of the same software will not recognize them at all.  In Version 2009 of the Tajima by Pulse DGML software they work great!

There are also a lot more fonts that are available that you can purchase at your office supply store and you will also find them in your artwork programs.

You have many choices of true type fonts and they make excellent and very beautiful monograms.  Many times we are of the mind set that we have to have a monogram font that that has been digitized for our embroidery program  in order to be able to create beautiful monograms, but this is not the case.  You  have a totally unlimited variety of fonts that are available and I will be teaching you how to create these monograms using some of the true type fonts.

This is the completion of a 2 part series.  I presented the first part
last month, “How To Create Beautiful Large And Small Monograms Using
Your Existing Embroidery Fonts“!  This “How To Create Beautiful Large And Small Monograms” video program series will be available on DVD after the webinar tonight.

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