Meet the Masterpiece designers who have created our design collections.
I have been digitizing since 1997 and love making fun children's designs. My name is Michelle and my daughter's name is Abbey (Abigail), hence my business name. She was born in late 2004.
A Design By Lyn
Lyn Christian and has been crafting since she was a small child. Her grandmom's and mother were a great influence in her creativity, encouraging her all the way.
She now works full time, manages her own web site A Design By Lyn, shares ownership of Platinum Embroidery, teaches with the Hands on Sewing Schools and creates projects for Janome and Bernina on line.
She has won several digitizing and embroidery awards and ribbons. Her creativity will make you reach further than you ever have before.
Many of the designs on A Design By Lyn are exclusive designs from well known artists and can only be found there.
Lyn also does custom digitizing and you can email her for details on that and contract embroidery for those larger and harder to handle items.
Isn't it amazing how computers have changed the world of sewing? Today, there are embroidery machines that enable us to create the most breath-taking designs in just moments. The introduction of computers to machine quilting has changed the face of the designing process, too.
Robin Hrabik started her business Candy Apple Quilts after many hours spent thinking about how it was in the "good old days"‚ when people had more time to embroider and quilt heirlooms for their families. With all of the demands of life today, that desire to create keepsakes is still within us. In spite of all of the burdens of our busy days, we long to create
and by combining the power of a computer with a sewing machine and a quilting machine, we can create family heirlooms in so much less time.
Robin learned to digitize embroidery designs more than ten years ago. She wanted to bring the accuracy that computers can provide into the quilting world, too. With a Gammill quilting machine and a Statler Stitcher, she is providing customers the ability to have their quilts finished with the highest possible standards, in a very short time.
Robin is running her longarm quilting service in northern Ohio, providing shipping throughout the United States. She also sells embroidery designs and quilt patterns through her web site store, and has a blog that features many of the quilts she has finished.
Erich Campbell is an 11-year, award-winning embroidery digitizer, specializing in dimensional, production-friendly embroidery in a multitude of styles. As an in-house digitizer at Albuquerque, NM-based Black Duck Inc., he has continued to grow his repertoire, culminating in creating his own designs for fashion shoots seen in Stitches magazine and even creating the highly-lauded January 2012 cover. Not content simply to digitize and perform the E-commerce and marketing tasks that comprise his daily work, Erich has become one of the most influential people in the industry as voted on by Stitches Magazine readers, due to his educational efforts and social media outreach. He is a regular contributor to Stitches Magazine via their "Ask and Expert" column, as well as a blogger on the Stitches Magazine website at "On Links and Needles". Erich is committed to education and innovation in the industry, and welcomes you to find him on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus. In his new role as a creator of stock designs, Erich draws on his varied experiences as a degree-holder in English with a focus in Medieval Studies, a constantly connected internet dweller, a lover of embroidery and textile art both classic and obscure, and a non-stop experimenter in the field to create designs that won't be found anywhere else.
Randi Kemper of Magical Machine Embroidery has been sewing since she was a child. She even made her own wedding dress when she was 18. She loves all hand work including embroidery, knitting, and crochet. In the 1980 she got hooked on French Sewing by machine and took many lessons from masters in the field. Now she is a licensed Martha Pullen instructor.
She got her first embroidery machine in the late 80's when the only designs available were by the machine manufacturer. There was no internet for buying designs. Then when she got her first computer they came out with a little device that you can scan a picture and then fill in the spaces with stitches. You could make the stitches go at different angles so there was a little dimension. It was with this first little device that she started her on line business of selling designs. She bought a little program that could convert to other programs and went to town. She also learned to build websites and so does all of her own web pages. She is in the process now of updating Magical Machine Embroidery to make it easier to navigate and shop.
Then finally things got better and new sophisticated programs came out and Randi learned them completely by herself by trial and error and replaced everything on Magical Machine Embroidery. Now she has advanced and tackles designs that are quite challenging and has continued to progress with new techniques. She always tries to do designs that are out of the ordinary.
She teaches classes on digitizing and quilting and regular machine embroidery classes that always have something unique for a learning experience. Teaching is a very pleasurable experience for her so this is something she hopes to do for many years to come. Quilting is now a passion too! Especially quilts that have machine embroidery. She also makes jointed collector bears and has taught bear making classes.
It is important to Randi that new people learn the difference between good and poorly digitized designs and that they also learn to appreciate most of the digitizers on line that have worked so hard to make their embroidery experience fun and exciting and also affordable. There is a big difference between click to stitch designs that are really like the old paint by number canvass's and real hand digitized designs. Meeting other digitizers has been such a good experience and so much fun.
Bonnie Landsberger of Moonlight Design Custom Embroidery Digitizing has been an artist and hand embroiderer since childhood and digitizing since 1986. She was the in-house head digitizer for a 50-head embroidery shop for 11 years and in 1993, she purchased a design system to be able to work from a home office and established one of the first custom and stock design websites on the Internet. By 1997, she resigned from her in-house position, giving full attention to independent custom digitizing services and creating original stock designs.
Her embroidery and digitizing technical articles can be found in various trade magazines and she is currently a contributing writer and Editorial Advisory Board Member for Stitches Magazine. You can also find some of her articles online at EmbroideryDesigns.com where she works a few hours a day as a customer service representative, and writes the blog Just My Two Stitches; Thoughts in the embroidery design break room.
Bonnie has won several awards for digitizing, including a gold medal in the 2002 Digitizing Olympics and grand prize in all categories & first place for Winter Holidays category in the Stitches Magazine Great Greeting Card Contest 2003.
I am Teri Sullivan, of Sew Terific Designs (one "r", like my name). I've been digitizing and selling machine embroidery designs since 1996. I offer a large and varied assortment of designs on my site, including many different styles, techniques, and themes. I often use exclusive artwork for my designs, meaning you won't find them anywhere else, and especially love those with lots of detail. I also offer custom digitizing services, many free samples and project ideas, and a comprehensive thread chart/thread conversion resource list.
My name is Bonnie Domeny and I am owner and President of Threadlove Embroidery. I have been digitizing since the 90's and I love it. I have an eclectic style, I tend to digitize which ever piece of art speaks to me. I've done stand alone designs, filled designs, floral, fur, line work (red work), and even appliqué. Visit my Threadlove web site to see what I have to offer.
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