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Embroidery Designs by Carolyn
If you have an embroidery machine, you will not want to miss visiting Carolyn's site! Her designs are beautiful and she has a large number of collections for you to choose from. There are borders, florals, hears, angels, heirloom designs, winter, holiday designs, penguins, cups and saucers, entire scenes, a sewing machine with a quilt, and so very many more!

There are more designs than you first realize. Most links open up into a menu of links. You are sure to spend a lot of delighted moments as you go through them and see all of the lovely, attractive designs - and to think she has designed them all herself! All you lucky people with embroidery machines will have found a treasure trove.

Hints and Tips

When I use a template, store bought or home made, I put double stick tape on the back to keep if from sliding. Actually it is better to take regular scotch tape and fold it back onto itself to make it double stick. This makes it a little thicker and easier to get off than regular double stick tape.The real double stick tape works better on paper templates. Some fibers might stick to it but that makes it less sticky so that less fibers stick to it. It can be used for quite a few cuts. I just roll the tape backwards around my finger, then flatten it on the back of the template. For paper I just add another piece of of the double stick on top of the old one when it loses it stickiness. 

- contributed by Elaine

Send in your hints and tips!

Rebecca- age 8
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"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."

Billy - age 4
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"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."

Karl - age 5
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"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."

Chrissy - age 6
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"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."

Terri - age 4
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"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."

Danny - age 7
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"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss."

Emily - age 8
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"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."

Bobby - age 7
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"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,"

Nikka - age 6
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"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday."

Noelle - age 7
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"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well."

Tommy - age 6
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"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore."

Cindy - age 8
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"My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night."

Clare - age 6
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"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."

Elaine-age 5
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"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Brad Pitt."

Chris - age 7
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"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."

Mary Ann - age 4
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"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."

Lauren - age 4
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"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."

Karen - age 7
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"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."

Jessica - age 8
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The late author and lecturer, Leo Buscaglia, once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing. I just helped him cry."

- author unknown
- contributed by Elaine

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