1-Embr-News... Fri March 15, 2013

Published: Fri, 03/15/13

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Friday March 15, 2013

Important Note: You will find strategically placed typos and grammatical errors in this newsletter. They have been placed there to keep you alert. When you notice them & find yourself becoming more alert, you will know they have done their critical job!

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"The Ides Of March"

Here we are on March 15th... and the year is almost 1/4 over already.  How is your year going?  It's not too late to get going on whatever you were hoping to accomplish for 2013.  But DO be careful of "friends" wearing white robes and patting you on the back. 

"Proquiltinating"

"Working on quilts when you should be doing
dishes or laundry or picking up the kids."




"Oh My Aching Back"

On Tuesday morning Holly was bending over to make the bed.  I was on the other side of the bed helping her with the chore when we both her a small "pop" sound.  Like the pop of a knuckle cracking... but the sound came from her lower back. The pain was  intense and it took about an hour before she could get up and into the car for a trip to the chiropractor. 

Lots of ice and other therapies and she is slowly getting better.  But if you've ever had this happen before, and I have, you know it takes a while to recover.  So for now I am her cabana boy, doing everything I can to keep her comfortable.

 


New "In-The-Hoop" Designs For Both ATW Club Members
& HDS Buyers...

ATW Club Members are got the new "FSL Egg Holder" designs on March 8th.  The egg holders are FSL and are designed in 2 sizes... to fit small plastic eggs and the other set for large plastic eggs.

HDS Buyers can get the "FSL Tea-Light Holders" starting today.  They are designed to hold the small tea-lights available at places like the dollar store or big lots or similar places.  Get the SMALL ones.   :-)




"Webinars"

A lot of people have never been on a webinar before. So what "IS" a webinar?  It's a "web - seminar" and it mean a live presentation made on the internet. 

Register for our webinars on our websites and come on in for the shows!  They're fun and educational too. 



Daily News Retiring

After almost a year and a half of the current iteration of the Daily News, we will discontinue this advertising service. Details below under "Daily News".

ArtisticThreadWorks.com  Great designs from Holly and her students!  One extremely affordable membership fee gives you access to about 200 new designs every month PLUS our archives of another 20,000+ designs!

Join the club at...  www.ArtisticThreadWorks.com


YouCanDigitize.com  If you want to get into digitizing, NOW is the time to jump on-board!

Learn to digitize at... www.YouCanDigitize.com


  -- Larry

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New Designs on ATW...



One Touch Florals



2013-Mar-15
Artwork by DesignStitch

Digitized by
Maria Schuekle
ATW Digitizing Team


1 OF 1,915
SETS INCLUDED
IN ATW CLUB
MEMBERSHIP!
 



(Get Membership Info Here)


See our latest 15 sets of new designs here...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/designsearch

Click the "Next" link at the bottom of the page and keep going! 

Members can download any or all of the designs currently in the archives!  What a great value!


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HollysDesignStudio.com

See More...

PLEASE NOTICE...

HDS Website down off and on today...


FSL Tea-Light Holders

Artwork by
DesignStitch

Digitized by
Loraine Meyer
ATW Digitizing Team


Watch 39 Second Video Of The Tea-Light Set Here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136oAK05PA0




ATW Members take
50% off all HDS orders! 




HDS designs are just $4 per SET
and you can take discounts of
10%, 20%, or 30% off
when you buy 3 or more
design sets at...

www.HollysDesignStudio.com

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www.YouCanDigitize.com

New Digitizers Joining The ATW Digitizing Team As Apprentices!


We are happy to welcome several new members to Holly's digitizing team from her latest apprentice class.  For those of you who are new to reading our newsletter, the apprentice class is an intense 8 week training course we run once or twice a year online.  The class is most similar to Army "boot-camp" with students learning and digitizing at a frenzied pace throughout the course.

The people who excel in the class are invited to stay on for a 1 year apprenticeship with Holly to learn what running a digitizing business is really like.  The apprentice digitizers are paid for digitizing for ATW and continue to receive Holly's coaching while they learn.

The hardest part of being in the apprentice class is not learning to digitize, it's learning to balance the demands of the course with the "stuff" that happens in life at the same time.  It's more of a marathon than a sprint because students get a taste of what it's like to deal with the day-in and day-out challenges that come along while trying to digitize for a business at the same time.

What is the "life" that happens along the way?  Invariably embroidery machines will break, computers will stop working, files will be lost, people will be sick, family members have major issues, job demands get in the way, etc.  We know ALL these things will happen to students because they happen to us.  And the hardest of the 3 "ups" is to "keep up" when other things are happening. 

Congratulations to the new team members...

Di Venter - Berlin, Germany
Petra Sieler - Brazori, Texas
Fran Walton - Vernon Hill, Virginia
Sandy Brinigar - San Diego, California

 



We
TEACH
people to
DIGITIZE! 


And we sell the
BEST
DIGITIZING
SOFTWARE
we've ever seen...

Generations!





Still At Introductory Price!
http://www.youcandigitize.com

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A Set Of Designs From ATW...
Help yourself to this complete design set every day of the month compliments of ArtisticThreadWorks.  Starts over again on the first of each month.

The 15th...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/30d15toys.html

The 14th...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/30d14army.html

The 13th...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/30d13saints.html

The 12th...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/30d12cubs.html


Latest Freebies @ ArtisticThreadWorks.com
Come on by and download these newest samples today!  We put up a new set of freebies every Friday morning.  If you're subscribed to our "1-Embroidery-Newsletter" then you'll get a link directly to the new freebies in every issue. 


These weekly freebies are 1 design from each of the new SETS our club members can download each week.  Club members get 4 new design SETS every week and can also download thousands more designs at no additional charge from our library! 
www.EmbroideryDailyNews.com
After a couple years in it's current format, the Daily News is being discontinued. It will run for another 30 days for those advertisers who have already paid for the next 30 days but we will close after that time.

I am sure some other person will come up with an advertising venue to replicate the site within hours of this announcement going out.

We wish continued success to all our advertisers and readers of the daily news but need to focus our time on the ATW and YCD websites and other projects that are pending.  



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Making Machine Embroidery Fun & Affordable...

Join us at...
www.ArtisticThreadWorks.com
www.YouCanDigitize.com

Larry & Holly
Phone:  847-946-1342
Email:  webmaster@artisticthreadworks.com

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