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Happy St. David’s Day! (Dydd Hapus Gŵyl Dewi)

It’s March the 1st today and it is such a beautiful spring-like day here in the south of England.  I have been working on designs for our four patron saints recently – the idea came from a digitizer in the US who wanted something for St. Patrick.  I thought it would be good to have a design for all four saints.

Here is my gift to you for St.David’s Day.

Designed to celebrate St. David's Day as the daffodil is the national flower of Wales.

Designed to celebrate St. David’s Day as the daffodil is the national flower of Wales.

It is in two formats on my website.  daffodils.PES and daffodils.ART  (use the blue arrow on the right to download the files and click on “download” if you get an error message from Google – it doesn’t know about embroidery files but they do download and then open in the embroidery software).  Or download it directly here:  daffodils files.

If you need it in any other format, please leave a comment and I will reply to you.

 

The text around the daffodils translates to:

“This land of my fathers is dear to me”

This is the first line of the Welsh National Anthem “Land of My Fathers”.  If you would like to hear it, please follow this link:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtCOprRDUm8

 

Jan Allston                                                                         1st March 2015

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  • Lisa Thompson EditEditing comments on the BERNINA blog is only possible after logging in with a blog user account. Sign up now or create a user account if you do not have one yet.

    Is this still available?  I have a new granddaughter and it is her first St. David’s Day.  Her dad is Welsh and we live in Louisiana in the US, so it’s been hard to find something for her.Thanks!

    • Jan Allston EditEditing comments on the BERNINA blog is only possible after logging in with a blog user account. Sign up now or create a user account if you do not have one yet.

      Hi Lisa,

      Yes it is.  Just click on the “daffodil files” link and it will download to your computer.  There are 3 formats for you to use.  If you have the embroidery module on your Bernina machine then use the .EXP one for it.

      Happy St. David’s Day.

      Regards,

      Jan

    • ramonawirth EditEditing comments on the BERNINA blog is only possible after logging in with a blog user account. Sign up now or create a user account if you do not have one yet.

      Dear Mandy,
      Do you have an embroidery software? You can change the format of designs with it.
      If not, then I suggest you download the free BERNINA ARTlink 9 software, which lets you convert embroidery files to a lot of different formats, Jef included. You can download it here:
      https://www.bernina.com/artlink9

      When you have installed Artlink, you can read about how to use the software in the online manual.

      Kind regards, Ramona from BERNINA International

      • Jan Allston EditEditing comments on the BERNINA blog is only possible after logging in with a blog user account. Sign up now or create a user account if you do not have one yet.

        Hi Ramona,

        ArtLink will not convert to the .JEF extension.  I just downloaded V9 and there is no option for Janome files.  However if you use Ambassador Pulse it will convert for you.  I have also replied to Mandy.

    • Jan Allston EditEditing comments on the BERNINA blog is only possible after logging in with a blog user account. Sign up now or create a user account if you do not have one yet.

      Hi Mandy, please let me have your email address and i will send you the file in >JEF format.  Alternativelyt you can do it yourself is you open it with Ambassador Pulse and then save as a .JEF file to your computer.

      https://ambassador.pulsemicro.com/

      You will have to register but it’s free to use.

  • Jan Allston EditEditing comments on the BERNINA blog is only possible after logging in with a blog user account. Sign up now or create a user account if you do not have one yet.

    Thanks Hilary – say Happy Birthday for me!
    There are a few jump stitches in this design because of the colour changes but hopefully not too many. Enjoy!

  • Hilary Gooding EditEditing comments on the BERNINA blog is only possible after logging in with a blog user account. Sign up now or create a user account if you do not have one yet.

    Oh Jan, I am quite emotional listening to the singing! Thank you for such a beautiful design. It is my brother’s birthday today – and he is a David. Looking forward to the others.
    Hilary

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