Platinum Press

May 4th, 2007

Our Platinum-Quality Designers welcome you
to the experience of perfection in embroidery.

In This Issue

Platinum Treasures

Experience the difference of high quality digitizing, manually punched designs with minimal jump stitches and excellence in workmanship.
Quality that is affordable... Embroidery fun that is priceless.
Offered in the following formats, design size permitting:
ART, DST, HUS, JEF, PCS, PES, SEW, SHV, VIP, XXX

~~Last Days for Introductory Price~~

Beautiful Babies

This Treasure Chest is loaded with 15 exclusive designs created from original artwork.  You will not find them anywhere else in the world.

Instant Download is Available.
Visit our web site to purchase the Platinum Treasures.

Show us how you used a Platinum Treasure.
Send a photo to customer service.

 

Platinum Projects

Technological Shirt Protector

Lyn is such a funny woman!  She has made this "shirt protector" otherwise known as a burp cloth from a simple tri fold diaper. The design is exclusive to the Make It Special Heirloom collection and was digitized by Lyn from A Design By Lyn .  Lyn has even provided instructions for how to use it for new parents.  It's a hoot!!!

Visit our project page for instructions for these projects and many others.

 

Featured Collections From Our Designers

A Design By Lyn

Redwork designs from our childhood.  Perfect for any project.  Comes with and without lettering and bonus quilt project included.

Redwork Prayer

Sew Terific Designs

This is a  collection of 26 redwork letters in 2 sizes.  One size fits the 4" hoops and the other fits the 5"x7" hoops.  Although done in traditional redwork style, these designs are so lovely in a rainbow of colors!  Great care has been taken with these designs to provide lots of detail with a minimum of jump stitches.

Redwork Children's Alphabet

Mother Hen's Quilt Embroideries

Whimsical "Cherry Hill Farm" farm designs for big and little kids. Artwork courtesy of Anne Fetzer.

Quilts 22

 
"Live Well - Love Much - Laugh Often"  Words to live by.  Or, as the gardener would say ..............  "Dig Well - Love Mulch - Weed Often".  The "Garden Inspirations" collection from Art in Stitches is ready to stitch a special gift for your favorite Green Thumb!

Snow Lady Designs

Nostalgia at its best!  "Sock it to me Monkey!"
is a set of 7 designs in two sizes and we are
sure these little cuties are going to tug at your
heart strings just as they did ours.
 

 

Embroidery Design In A Competitve Market

You may have noticed that some of your favorite designers are no longer around. The machine embroidery industry has grown and so have the number of digitizers. The market has become highly competitive because of this.

Great designers have to compete with digitizers that release 1 to 4 sets per day.

These designs are often autodigitized and untested. The websites show cute designs, but these are not photos of the actual stitch out of designs. These are graphics produced by software and don't show how they actually look when sewn. Autodigitized designs look flat and boring. The digitizers who auto digitize designs have put little effort and time into their designs so they can afford to sell them at rock bottom prices.

Quality minded designers go to great lengths to produce designs for sale. This includes purchasing artwork, digitizing, testing and retesting designs until they sew out perfectly. We take great care to make our designs dimensional and interesting. We use a lot of supplies and take a great deal of time to complete just one design. We go through the same process for every design we create. This is why quality designers put out fewer designs at a higher price.

Sometimes as designers we lose heart when we see so many low quality designs sold for pennies. We wonder why we continue to spend our time and efforts creating quality designs. Some designers decide it's just not worth it and close down their websites.

As Platinum Designers we provide designs that we are proud to present to our customers. We may charge a little more than some of our competitors, but you can be sure that our designs have been tested and look great on fabric. You can also know that our designs will sew with minimal jump stitches and no unnecessary color changes. Our designs will not cause thread and needle breakage. We support our work to help you if you do run into trouble.

Yes, the embroidery design market is competitive. But our Platinum Designers are confident that our designs are worth every penny. Our customers tell us so every day. One way to find out for yourself is to purchase one of our Platinum Treasures collections. Each of the collections has a variety of designs from our Platinum Designers. It's a great way to sample quality designs from Platinum Designers.

Lyn Christian - A Design By Lyn
and
Bonnie Domeny - Threadlove Embroidery

 

Platinum Pearl

It was recently asked how to sew on the backs of directors chairs without the stitches showing through on the front side.

Lyn from A Design By Lyn offers these suggestions:

Items like chairs and things that have backs on them can be a challenge. Here are a few suggestions.  See what works best for you. If the design has no lettering on it, then try changing the bobbin thread colors to match the front, and most of the time this will make a pretty good front and back.

You can also FAKE the back, but using the fabric markers and GENTLY and LIGHTLY stroking the white bobbin thread to match the front.

OR........you can do your design on a coordinating fabric, then using an appliqué shape around the design, appliqué it to the chair. This leaves the back just showing the outline of the shape.

Another suggestion that Bonnie from Threadlove Embroidery has is:

There are director's chairs on the market that have backs that are like chair covers, they slip over the back with a front and back piece of fabric so that embroidery on either side is hidden on the inside of the chair slip.

Actually making something like this would be as easy as folding a piece of cloth in half, sewing up the sides and hemming the bottom edge.


Do you have questions about embroidery?

We have 10 very knowledgeable designers with 100 total years of experience ready to answer your questions.  Send your questions to customer service.

 

Birthday Surprise

Sign up for our new Birthday Surprise to receive a gift design during the month of your birthday.


 

 

Our Platinum Promise of Quality

Platinum Embroidery designs are crafted to be a pleasure to stitch. Careful planning results in designs with the fewest possible jump stitches and color changes, underlayment to prevent distortion and stitch choices that make the artwork come to life. Every design is meticulously test-stitched to be sure each part embroiders perfectly and that the stitches work together to create a design that is as much a joy to stitch as it is to see.

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