How to solve dye lot dilemmas
Hello! Kreinik Calling! Like the old Avon-Calling, but we’re talking about threads, those beauty products for your soul, er, stitching. Today I want to talk
Hello! Kreinik Calling! Like the old Avon-Calling, but we’re talking about threads, those beauty products for your soul, er, stitching. Today I want to talk
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
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
Are you an adventurous stitcher who loves to combine threads and stitches in projects? Or are you a conservative stitcher who sticks to one-thread-type, one-stitch-type
Have you ever stitched right down to the last inch of thread on your needle? It’s usually not a good idea, but truth is, most
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
“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
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
Some pretty clever stuff for you in this Edge post. Clothing Company Forever21 commissioned the Thread Screen, an amazing device that used 6400 reels of