I love everything about crafts. I have tried everything from scrapbooking, cardmaking, sewing, drawing, painting, knitting, crochet, dolls house making, etc. Basically you name it, I've probably tried it. I started this blog to display my numerous crafts, my inspiration and maybe a few tips on what I have learned. Thank you for visiting my blog and happy reading!

Friday, 4 May 2012

Look what arrived today!






My brand new Singer Futura XL-550 sewing/embroidery machine. My wonderful husband bought it for me as an early first wedding anniversary present.









 I am in love with this machine it has 215 built-in stitches including six automatic buttonholes, 125 built-in embroidery designs plus I can use the software included to create any design I want


I couldn't wait to get the embroidery unit set up . The six LED lights are really bright and light the work area up perfectly.










I decided to embroider my husband's name first. The hoop show is the smaller of the two, the other one is A4 size; although this machine does have multi-hoop cababilities.





This is the finished design along with my name as well using a basic font.











My husband is a Liverpool football supporter so I did a basic LFC logo. The original image was quite pixelated so the final embroidery wasn't that good, however it's still very good (better then what I can do by hand).

3 comments:

  1. Hey I am loving the machine, though I have to ask where did he manage to buy it in the UK, I've been looking all over

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  2. Hi I bought the machine from Create and Craft last May when then had a deal going. I checked their website for you and unfortunately they no longer sell it. You may be able to find it on eBay, if not I have heard that the XL-400 is a good machine and I have seen that on eBay.

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    1. Thank you so much, I have had a look at the XL-400 machine but I wasn't to keen on that it came with only 30 stitches, which is why I had a look at this one and the newest one out from Singer. x

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