I really love the Bean Stitch, it is mostly ignored in favor of using a Satin Stitch. Well, it is ti [More]

There are so many places to learn about embroidery on the Internet.  My blog and that of the ot [More]

The Avid Embroiderer Presents - How to finish that baby item before they go to college   You [More]

I just made up that word but if you found it elsewhere, well, I still made it up for embroidery.As a [More]

  It's happened to all of us at one time or another. A project is stitching just fine then, out of nowhere, a glitch with the stitches. It isn't just the waste of materials that we mind, but the loss of time invested. In the sample above, I got almost to the end and ran out of th... [More]

While I don't do quilts myself, I always enjoy and appreciate the work done by the talented people w [More]

With that title line, I am thinking that there are hundreds and hundreds of things they won't tell y [More]

After asking several digitizers the all important question - "tell your readers that it takes a [More]

Your current scissors are probably not going to make it to a museum, I know mine won't.  But a [More]

Among the beautiful and creative hand embroidery work is a pattern called Hardanger.  When look [More]