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Applique Embroidery Tips & Techniques Hooping

How to Embroider on Minky

by eileenroche on February 22, 2012

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How to Embroider on Minky Do you love the feel of Minky but have been afraid to add embroidery to this luscious fabric? Its cuddly-soft texture, stretchy give and lush…

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Alignment and Placement Continuous Embroidery

Placement Guides, Alignment Marks, Placement Marks, What’s the Difference?

by eileenroche on February 8, 2012

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Placement Guides, Alignment Marks, Placement Marks, What’s the Difference? No matter what you call them, they are a visual aid to place fabric in a hoop so that the design…

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Embroidery Tips & Techniques Hooping Wearables

How to stitch on baby soft knit fabric

by eileenroche on February 1, 2012

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Those stretchy, skinny t-shirts are so popular. Here are some tips on how to stitch them successfully. First, the right embroidery design for the right fabric is crucial. Don’t try…

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Alignment and Placement Continuous Embroidery Hooping

A new solution to squaring up fabric in the hoop

by eileenroche on January 4, 2012

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Let me introduce you to PAL – Perfect Alignment Laser. I use PAL for common machine embroidery tasks: finding the center of a quilt block or pocket, squaring my fabric/design…

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Holiday Home Decor

Advent Calendars

by eileenroche on November 29, 2011

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I’ve always been charmed by advent calendars. When I saw this Winter Mitten Gift Card Holder from our friends at SWAKembroidery.com, I couldn’t resist transforming the in-the-hoop ornaments into 25…

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Digitizing Embroidery Tips & Techniques

Embossing

by eileenroche on November 23, 2011

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I’ll be the first to admit my digitizing skills are quite limited but the more I try, the easier it gets. Lately, I’ve been playing with digitizing software on how…

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Embroidery Tips & Techniques

Spanx® for Machine Embroidery Designs

by eileenroche on November 9, 2011

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What is Spanx for embroidery designs? It’s underlay – the seamless foundation for beautiful embroidery. Without it, you’re going to see a whole lot of puckers, wrinkles and divets. Things that are…

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Just a Couple of Bag Ladies

by eileenroche on November 2, 2011

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I’m afraid to count. I feel like Imelda Marcos but instead of shoes, it’s bags. Handbags. In the past five months, I’ve made over 20 handbags. Wow – it would…

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Embroidery Tips & Techniques

Embossing…with an Embroidery Machine

by eileenroche on October 5, 2011

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There’s a hot technique you might want to try, it’s embossing with an embroidery machine. It takes tone-on-tone embroidery to a whole new level. In fact, 90% of the thread…

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