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Category: Ghost in the Embroidery Machine

link to Before the Unboxing: Tips For Machine Embroidery First Timers

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...

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link to Why Are The Colors Wrong In My Machine Embroidery Design?

Why Are The Colors Wrong In My Machine Embroidery Design?

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...

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link to A Machine Embroidery Glossary for Makers at Make:

A Machine Embroidery Glossary for Makers at Make:

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...

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link to Single Color Machine Embroidery – One Thread, Many Qualities

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...

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link to Ask the Ghost: Making Memorable Monograms

Ask the Ghost: Making Memorable Monograms

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...

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link to Embroidered Emblems and Patches from Plastic

Embroidered Emblems and Patches from Plastic

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...

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