Why Can’t I Make My Embroidery Machine Work? – 3 Ways to Stop Struggling and Start Stitching
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
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
Whether I’m talking business with a newly-minted commercial machine embroiderer or discussing the craft with a would-be machine embroidery artist or erstwhile crafter, I can
The embroidery of Tulip Cake (which is an anagram for Katie Culp, in case you were wondering the source of the somewhat adorable name) is pumped
“How Do I Keep The Fabric From Puckering?” This question is singularly the most asked I’ve seen in my experience with embroiderers. It’s understandable; there’s
Thread is at the heart of all we create as embroiderers, so it’s no surprise that we look to specialty threads to alter the look
There are three kinds of knowledge a proficient digitizer needs:
– An Understanding Of Materials And Equipment
– Technical Knowledge About Embroidery And Digitizing
– An Understanding Of Software
In a slight diversion from our usual format, I’ve decided to creatively paraphrase one of the many questions from erstwhile embroiderers that I answer every
There’s been so much wisdom and learning shared by our digitizing guru Erich Campbell in the past year that we thought we’d take a moment
As far as I am from my first experiments in embroidery digitizing, I am well aware of the frustration that those first flailing grasps at
In my previous post about stitch types, I revealed the controversial truth the only stitch which an embroidery machine is capable of producing is a
What is underlay? If you’ve been around embroidery digitizers, you’ve heard the term, but you may not know exactly what it’s all about. The word