April 19, 2024
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Floral Blooms Counted cross stitch is an old-fashioned favorite that has stood the test of time.
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Embrilliance
is an affordable, easy-to-use, and versatile design editing program that you
can start
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March 22, 2024
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Are stabilizers and interfacing
interchangeable?
Last time, we discussed whether or not
it
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March 8, 2024
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You’ve likely spent hundreds or thousands of dollars on a computerized
embroidery machine. If you ar
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February 23, 2024
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Quilting your projects has never been easier! Of course,
nothing beats a hand-stitched and quilted p
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February 9, 2024
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Did you get a new machine for Christmas? Or maybe you just want
to take advantage of a thread sale.
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January 19, 2024
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ITH Meow Purse
Resolutions are often health related and that is certainly
fine. Why not also resolv
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December 29, 2023
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There are so many different kinds of applique. Do you know
what they are?
Applique was once done en
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December 15, 2023
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It is so much fun to embroider bankets and they make a
wonderful gift. These tips will help them las
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December 1, 2023
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You can make an ice skate ornament similar to the one I
created that made the cover of the Designs
i
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November 3, 2023
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If you have ever used mesh cutaway stabilizer and your
machine embroidery project puckered after it
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October 6, 2023
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If you are like me, you make several of the same embroidery
projects to give away during the holiday
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September 8, 2023
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If you embroider a lot of freestanding lace or freestanding
applique projects, you end up with lots
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August 25, 2023
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Do you embroider your
youngster’s name on shirts and backpacks for school? Maybe you should rethink
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August 11, 2023
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Have you ever wondered why some
applique projects look so much better than others? One reason may be
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July 28, 2023
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Monograms are one of the most popular items that we
embroider and these tips will help you make them
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July 14, 2023
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Here are a couple of reasons why basting stitches are
useful in machine embroidery.
What Are Bastin
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June 30, 2023
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Want your embroidered text to come out crisp and clear?
These tips will help!
Since fonts
are on sa
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June 16, 2023
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We know cottons should be preshrunk before we stitch but did
you know that some stabilizers
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June 2, 2023
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If directions
call for a medium-weight tear-away stabilizer, do you know what that means?
Stabiliz
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May 19, 2023
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Do you like to sew and embroider with your children or
grandchildren? Since you will probably be spe
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Thread tension is essential to beautiful embroidery. Do you
know what it looks like?
We don’t often
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January 20, 2023
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January is
typically a time of reflection. I have found that this task is essential to
successful cr
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Templates are
essential to exact positioning of embroidery designs, especially if you are
creating p
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Ever wonder where some of the best-loved holiday traditions
came from? Santa
FaceSaint Nicholas was
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December 2, 2022
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If I had this tool from the beginning, the success rate of
my machine embroidery projects would have
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November 18, 2022
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We are rapidly approaching the most wonderful time of the
year and for makers, that is certainly tru
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October 26, 2022
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I stitch a lot of in-the-hoop (ITH) projects, many of which
require floating pieces on no-show mesh
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September 30, 2022
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Do you trim your jump stitches as they happen?
Maybe you should!
Good digitizers have very few jump
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BTW, one of the best tips I have seen in a long time was presented by Debbie who blogs right here: h
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