Jen Funk Weber is giving away a ticket to a webinar entitled “Best Photo Forward: Refining Photos of Fine Embroidery with PhotoShop Elements.” The webinar will cover such topics as:
* what PhotoShop Elements is and why we should use it
* how to convey more accurate colors
* how to stretch and square warped or crooked images
* how to resize images for the Web
* how to frame a piece digitally
and more.
To find out more and to enter to win visit this blog post. You can also find out how to register for the webinar or learn more here. Enter soon – the webinar will be held March 20th and there’s and early bird special for early registrants!
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Designer Spotlight: Happy Cross Stitchers
If you love patterns for frogs and sardines, animals, food, flowers and more, Happy Cross Stitchers has got you covered. With more than 1,600 patterns as of this writing, you’re almost guaranteed to find something you like.
I don’t know if I’ve missed something that cross stitch patterns featuring sardines are showing up everywhere (this is the second designer I’ve seen with them in the past month or so) but Happy Cross Stitchers has 60 sardine cross stitch patterns. They also have 200 patterns with flowers, and even more than that in their biggest category, which is animals.
Many of the animal cross stitch patterns have a modern nursery feel to them, like this set of four modern boho animal patterns featuring what I’m interpreting as owls, a moose (or it coulr be a deer), a donkey and a cow. Each individual pattern is 100 by 100 stitches and they use six or seven colors. The designs will come out to 7.1 inches or 18.14 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.
There’s also a large number of Christmas cross stitch patterns, with lots of trees, little houses, Santas and word art. There are lots of bunnies, eggs and chicks in the Easter section.
The modern designs include lots of colorful, graphic florals. There are also well over 100 butterflies, many of which at least look like they could be inspired by real butterflies (though none of them are labeled as to what kind of butterfly they are).
You’ll also find plenty of cute and often funny cat and dog cross stitch patterns, though there are a lot more cats than dogs represented. And then there’s the food section, with patterns for fruits, different kinds of toast, a jar of pickles, doughnuts and more.
And that’s not even all there is in this store! I guess all this is a long way of saying there’s a lot of fun patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HappyCrossStitchers on Etsy and you should go browse because you’ll probably find something you like. And if you do, I’d like to hear about it!
[Photo: Happy Cross Stitchers]
Oh, I am so excited about this webinar! I love stitching on linen, but the reflection off the linen itself makes the piece look wavy (and awful). I’ve tried every sort of light and angle and nothing has worked to fix this. I also struggle with photographing framed pieces that have glass over them – the whole reflection thing again. I am a point and shoot photographer with a camera that does more than I’m capable of, so I’m hoping this webinar will improve my Photoshop ability and make my work shine without reflection!