Stitch online with Betz White

betz Needle goddess Betz White is offering her first online workshop this fall. Her blog says,

Felt + Stitch Holiday is jam-packed with ideas, techniques and projects you can start making right away. Inspired my book, Warm Fuzzies, this workshop will focus on small projects made with felted wool sweaters and/or craft felt. You will learn the basics of working with felt, a variety of applique and embellishment techniques, experiment with needle felting methods and more. Each week I will post wonderful holiday projects for you to make applying these techniques. I will share with you tricks of the trade. Even if you have never worked with felted wool before, you’ll complete this workshop feeling like a pro! You might also feel a bit like Santa with all of the gifts and décor you’ll create.

The class runs October 12 to November 6 and costs US $40.00. Get the details.

This one has that bold, trendy Halloween look that would be right at home on a sweatshirt, tote bag, or anything else you want to give a bit of spooky-season personality. The Spooky Season Embroidery Design from MySimplyEmbroidery is a digital machine embroidery file, and the listing shows it as an instant download with 1 PDF and 1 ZIP file included.

What makes this design stand out is the graphic style. The listing images show the words “Spooky Season” in a drippy Halloween-style font, with a skeleton, bats, a spider web, a cat, and a spider worked into the layout. It feels modern and playful rather than old-fashioned Halloween, so I can see it appealing to stitchers who like seasonal embroidery with a more current boutique-shop vibe.

From a practical point of view, the file comes in three large sizes: 7.56 x 4.55 inches, 8.64 x 5.20 inches, and 9.23 x 5.55 inches, with stitch counts from 15,471 to 19,038. The included formats are DST, EXP, JEF, HUS, PCS, PEC, PES, VIP, VP3, and XXX, and the listing says a production worksheet in PDF is included as well.

The seller also notes that the design was manually digitized, which is always a nice detail to see on a machine embroidery listing. The usual embroidery-download reminders are there too: you need an embroidery machine and know how to transfer the file, and the seller says they are not responsible for design quality if the file is resized, converted, or edited. The listing also allows buyers to use the files for personal projects or items to sell, but not to resell or distribute the design itself.

From the shop side, this one looks reassuring even though the item itself has no reviews yet. Etsy shows MySimplyEmbroidery with a 4.9 rating from 213 reviews, 1.9k sales, and 3 years on Etsy, and the seller is listed as usually responding within 24 hours. The shop is based in Krakow, Poland.

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