Hi. My name is Lynda Laird Burgess. I am the owner of Lyndley Designs, and the creator of the eclectic assortment of machine embroidery designs on this site.

My friend Nancy Caravaggio of Triangle Sewing Centre, thinks I’m “ meticulous” which is her sweet way of saying “pain in the neck perfectionist”. Others might agree, including my very patient husband, and equally patient webmaster. So I thought , why not embrace the fact and incorporate it into my business slogan. After all, for my customers, it’s a good thing to be so picky about quality! When testing a design, it won’t be offered for sale until I’m completely satisfied it’s as perfect as it’s going to get.

My mother passed her love of all needlecrafts to me at an early age. She was a professional seamstress and very accomplished at the fine art of hand embroidery, quilting, knitting and crochet. Her first love however, was sewing, as was mine for many years, until I was bitten by the digitizing bug shortly after purchasing my first embroidery machine in 2002 and Bernina Artista V5 software a year later.

I took Artista digitizing lessons through several online courses and dealer lessons for a year. Then, I was privileged to observe an amazing digitizer in a 2 day conference on non specific software techniques.... third generation digitizer Trevor Conquerwood of Stitchitize. That was it, I was hooked. I studied the advanced course at Trevor’s Embroidery Design Learning Studio and have since developed some of my own techniques.

I live in the countryside of south western Ontario, Canada with my husband of 29 years, Alan, an accomplished musician, businessman and site photographer. We enjoy sharing our property with a wide variety of wildlife including golden eagles, great horned owls, wild turkeys, coyotes and deer.

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Wild Turkeys	Home of Lyndley Designs	Golden Eagle
Peanut Thief	Deer	Pheasant