How is everyone's crafting going? 



Here is our gallery:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=419650.0

Gallery for the kids Valentine Swap!!! 


Partners:

Lizabiz08 (Gavin)  sends to r.forslund (Jae)
r.forslund (Jae) sends to szuzu1969 (Phoebe)
szuzu1969 (Phoebe,) sends to Lizabiz08 (Gavin)

 szuzu1969 (Polly) sends to r.forslund (Mia)  
r.forslund (Mia) sends to szuzu1969 (Polly)

mom2em (Emma) sends to deathbeforedishes (Madelyn)
deathbeforedishes (Madelyn) sends to Momof2! (Anna,)
Momof2! (Anna) sends to mom2em (Emma)

patty_o_furniture (Sariah) sends to  pinkmichk (Molly)
pinkmichk (Molly) sends to patty_o_furniture (Sariah)

leighi123 (Levi) sends to plaidpineapple (Brian)
plaidpineapple (Brian) sends to leighi123 (Levi)

deathbeforedishes (Katelyn) sends to szuzu1969 (Paige)
szuzu1969 (Paige)  sends to deathbeforedishes (Katelyn)

RhymeswOrange (Peri) sends to jenleahlynn (Lori)
jenleahlynn (Lori) sends to RhymeswOrange (Peri)

plaidpineapple (Lindsey) sends to Makaylalee (Kierra)
Makaylalee (Kierra) sends to plaidpineapple (Lindsey)

patty_o_furniture (Afton) sends to jenleahlynn (Leah)
jenleahlynn (Leah) sends to patty_o_furniture (Afton)
...

I have one thing left to make and then I will send!   

I sent a package!

Pintrest is great, I don't know what I did without it!

I sent everyone partners!  Please let me know if there are any issues ASAP! 

I ended up doing 2 groups of 3 in order to match ages better, I hope thats ok! 

Sign ups are almost over!  You have until the end of today!     

I have a brand new Brother 770, and my computer is a Mac.

I found some free embroidery designs online, and I downloaded it, dragged it onto the USB icon on my computer, and then checked that it was in there.   Then I ejected the flash drive and put it in my machine.   

I saved it (the same design) in 2 different formats, PES and DST, the book my machine came with says several formats will work.   

On my machine, I click on the USB symbol, and 2 things come up, one for each of the 2 formats.  1, the PES one comes up as a silhouette of the design (a penguin) and 2. comes up as the name of the design (dst format). 

Either one, I click on it and it darkens indicating its selected.   And then?   Nothing.   I don't know what to do next to get it to use that design!  I tried pushing various buttons but none will embroider the design or go to the screen that the built-in designs have to adjust the orientation, size etc. 


So what am I doing wrong and how do I get my designs from my computer onto the flash drive, and then onto the machine in a way that I can actually use them?   I followed the directions, so I'm not sure what I did wrong!

I have a good idea for something I'm going to make but I can't decide on fabric!  Hmmmmmmm   

I think we have a good group of crafty kiddos!   I always loves arts and crafts and I would have had so much fun with something like this as a kid!   Levi is looking forward to it!


Sign ups end tomorrow and I will try and have partners up the following day, I'll do my best to be fast at matching as I'm already working on it a bit!