Before the Unboxing: Tips For Machine Embroidery First Timers
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 may not know this yet, but if you have the...
It's time for another edition of our seldom-seen advice column, Ask the Ghost in the Embroidery Machine! Today we have a home embroiderer with a bone to pick with palette-thrashing digitizers, but...
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 in the deep recesses of digitizing tools and...
Single Color Machine Embroidery – One Thread, Many Qualities
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 registration, and the stitch counts...
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 get stuck on the rules and regulations; I don't want to do the...
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 that one or another...
