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SH Designs Embroidery

Have a fabulous week and a safe Holiday!

Shelly

Back Your Computer up Reminder!

Friendly reminder! Back up your Embroidery designs frequently! Do it once per week and if that isn't possible, try for the first of each month!

Some little tid bits I have learned! :-)

I use external hard drives to back up not only designs but everything related to my computer. Kind of sounds like over kill, but I have one that I back up my entire computer to. A second, that only embroidery designs get backed up to. A third that pictures get backed up to. End of each year, I back up designs to a dvd. My pictures, I back up the current year to dvd and label it. This way I have hard copies too!

I have also found to never leave my hard drives plugged in to the computer or wall outlet. They get hot quickly! So I only plug them in when I'm using them. This will extend the life of those external hard drives!

Have a great day!

Shelly

Butterfly House

We went to the Butterfly House yesterday!  Very Pretty!  But it sure was a hot day! It was 100 degrees and who knows what the heat index was! :-)

The butteflies are everywhere and flying all over!  They kept landing on my backside on my shirt!  LOL  Kind of hard to get really good pictures because they only perch for a second or two.

This is the entrance to the Butterfly House

This is one of the prettiest ones we saw yesterday

and of course, I had to get a picture of Brittani!

I took a lot more pictures than this, but thought I would just share a few with all of you!

Botanical Gardens

Yesterday we went to the Botanical Gardens!  I have to admit I hadn't been there in years!  But my husband and I made a promise to my daughter to go this summer.  She is getting into photography and wanted pictures.  I took some too and thought I would show you a few!

Enjoy

"Flashback" Messenger Bag

Well... I've been sewing again!  This time a project for my daughter Brittani, but also utilizing some new designs that will be on my website in the next few days called "Flashback"

When I started digitizing and testing these designs, I was stumped as to what kind of project I wanted to make.  My daughter needed a bigger bag for school this year and she just loves peace signs, guitars, hippie flower, the whole works!  So off we went shopping! She picked out all the fabrics for this project!  Yep!  They are bold and wild! All the fabrics were purchased at Joanns Fabrics.  I used craft fuse interfacing through out the entire project!

I let her pick the designs from the set that she wanted to use and pick out the thread colors for each of the designs!  Once again very bold colors!  All were stitched on this limey green kind of splotchy fabric.  That was the easy part! :-)

I had made a messenger bag before but couldn't find the pattern I used.  So created a pattern from scratch.  I also asked for Brittani's input as to how big it should be and the types of pockets etc.  So this is a really big bag!  I also looked online for help as to pockets.  I really wanted to use some zippers and found a great tutorial for zipper pockets.  Zipper Pocket Tutorial  I also found a messenger bag Tutorial  Awesome Messenger Bag Tutorial .  I kind of combined bits and pieces to create this one.

I used the designs on the flap and the back pocket.  Was kind of like creating mini quilts.  I had more designs from the set I would have liked to incorporate but just couldn't figure out where to put them! :-)

I added a zipper pocket to the inside of the bag and the outside of the bag!  I found the perfect colored zippers in my stash!

This was a first for me!  I had never done this before!  But now that I know how, I will be adding them to all the tote bags and purses I make.

I also added elastic topped pockets on either end of the bag.  They work perfect for bulky items, such as water bottles, hair brushes etc.

I also covered a piece of elastic with fabric and sewed to the inside of the bag on one end, to slide pencils and pens in.  I also added ribbon tabs to the inside that can be used to attach keys or coin purses etc. too.

There is one large pocket on the back of the bag and two pockets on the front of the bag (under the flap)

I slid some plastic canvas inbetween lining and outter bag to make a stable bottom/base of the bag.  I created the handle out of the fabric.  She wanted a longer handle, so I did as she requested!

While I can't give you the exact pattern, you can make this easily by using some of the above links and your imagination!

Shelly