Make Do and Monogram – A Repair with Machine Embroidery
If you follow embroiderers and digitizers online, you’ll often find yourself dazzled by the complex work that they do; smooth gradient blends comprised of many
If you follow embroiderers and digitizers online, you’ll often find yourself dazzled by the complex work that they do; smooth gradient blends comprised of many
Starting out in Machine Embroidery can be intimidating, but first of all, it should be fun. So you’ve just unpacked your first embroidery machine; You
The easiest explanation why machine embroidered colors is that the files that some machines require have a limited set of embedded colors built into the specs of the file type or contain no thread color information at all.
Machine embroidery is technical by its nature: It’s full of arcane terms, from the materials used, to machine parts, to the host of expressions wallowing
It’s hard not to love a single-color machine embroidery design; there’s no need to re-thread the design for different colors, most won’t have problems with
Dear Ghost, I monogrammed a bag for myself on a whim; now that people have seen it, I’m constantly asked to create monogrammed gear; I
As a commercial embroiderer, I’ve tended to favor techniques that use time-tested, embroidery specific materials. Fairly often, the adamant claims from my home embroidery friends
To embroider; it can simultaneously stand for puffing up and altering the truth of one’s statements as well as for adding decoration. Though I’ve been
In spending time with friendly home embroidery enthusiasts, I see differences in practice from my commercial roots; one (relatively) recent development was the rise of ‘floating’.
Having a goodly amount of contact with newcomers to the embroidery community gives me ample opportunities to ‘talk down’ people on the verge of giving
My first experiences with machine embroidery and digitizing didn’t happen behind a computer; they happened at the machine. The old multi-head machines I first learned
I am often surprised on first contact with many craft and home embroiderers by the expectations that they have of commercial embroidery as the place