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Tag: machine embroidery digitizing

link to Prep and Punch: Drawing and Embroidery Digitizing

Prep and Punch: Drawing and Embroidery Digitizing

Now a big tablet is about 24", far from the blind billboards of yesteryear. Embroidery Digitizing in the Real World Digitizers-in-training justifiably bemoan the lack of a single, clear-cut...

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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 Three ‘Trivial’ Details that made the Difference in my Embroidery

Three ‘Trivial’ Details that made the Difference in my Embroidery

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 known to tell tales about my own time stitching,...

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link to Confessions from Commercial Embroidery

Confessions from Commercial Embroidery

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 where 'perfect’ work is the norm. I admit, an...

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link to Alice Archer Elevates Machine Embroidery

Alice Archer Elevates Machine Embroidery

Embroidery and embellishment are all over Fall 2016 fashion -- see: Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, et cetera. Hand-stitching has been a mark of luxury and prestige for centuries --...

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link to Preventing Puckering in your Machine Embroidery

Preventing Puckering in your Machine Embroidery

"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 no singular solution to this issue,...

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