Archive for March, 2010

How to Stabilize Embroidery Designs

Stabilization is a tricky and complicated part of machine embroidery; but it is also the underlying foundation of good embroidery. Without proper stabilization, designs may pucker or sag and outlines may be off, stitches may sink into the fabric or fabric might poke through the stitching. Stabilization is the one area of embroidery that causes [...]

Cutwork Embroidery by Machine

Cutwork embroidery is a beautiful form of needlework where portions of the background fabric are cut away and discarded, with the edges worked over in satin stitching. There are many kinds of cutwork. The simplest form of cutwork is that which contains small open areas, such as eyelets, with no connecting bars.  Richelieu embroidery is [...]

Machine Embroidery Tips and Tricks

If you are a new embroiderer or perhaps consider yourself an “expert” there are always tips and tricks we can learn to perfect our machine embroidery techniques.   Prewash Fabric Always prewash your fabric whenever possible. If the fabric content is 100% cotton and you embroider on it before it is washed, the fabric will shrink [...]

Computer Tip – Save Web Pages as .PDF Files

Have you ever been surfing the web and found a web page that you would like to save just as it appears on your screen? Usually you will either click on the print button, saving a hard copy to your computer or would copy and paste portions of the page to a Word document, spending [...]