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Free Breast Cancer Awareness Embroidery Designs
October is generally associated with the oncoming of fall, [...]
Machine Embroidery for Beginners | Complete Guide & Video Classes
If you've seen and felt beautiful embroidery, you [...]
Machine Embroidery: What is Embroidery Digitizing?
Over the years, I’ve had literally thousands of people [...]
The 3 Main Fabric Categories Used In Machine Embroidery
With so many different fabric types available to the [...]
A Complete Guide to Machine Embroidery Stabilizers
As any exerienced embroiderer knows, if you're looking for [...]
Understanding Machine Embroidery File Formats
This complete guide covers everything you need to know [...]
Types Of Machine Embroidery Threads And When To Use Them
Everything you need to know about thread when you’re [...]
How to Embroider on Terry Cloth Towels
Machine Embroidery on Terry Cloth Towels The first item [...]
In-the-Hoop Embroidery Ornament Designs & Tutorial
Why Embroider an In-the-Hoop Ornament? If you're anything [...]
Puckering Prevention in Machine Embroidery
I don’t know about you, but when I’m embroidering [...]
Embroidery Hooping: Tutorial, Tips & Aids
"The quality of any embroidery project starts with how [...]
A Complete Guide to Machine Embroidery Fonts
There are TONS of different types of machine embroidery [...]
Understanding Embroidery Underlay Stitches
What are Underlay Stitches for Embroidery & Digitizing? Underlay [...]
Embroidery for Hats & Caps: How to Guide
Written by Steven Batts & John Deer Hats & [...]
4 Ways to Get Creative with Your Embroidery
Whether embroidery is a hobby or a source of [...]
How to Set Up Your Echidna Hooping Station(s)
Congratulations on your purchase of the Echidna Hooping Station! Your hooping [...]
Why Use an Embroidery Hooping Station?
Hooping... It's one of the first and most important steps [...]
Removing Water Soluble Embroidery Stabilizer Topping
If you’re an experienced embroiderer you’ve most likely heard [...]
Reverse Applique Machine Embroidery Tutorial
Reverse applique is a great yet simple technique that [...]
How to Get Embroidery Designs to Your Machine
If you're an embroidery beginner this article is for [...]
Metallic Embroidery Thread Keeps Breaking
Struggling with thread breaks on your embroidery machine when [...]
How to Avoid Machine Embroidery ‘Birds Nests’
What is an Embroidery Birds Nest & Why Does [...]
Machine Embroidery File Formats Explained
What are embroidery file formats? Embroidery file formats are [...]
Needle Know-How: Let’s get to the point!
Let’s get to the point! When that embroidery machine [...]
Contract Digitizers – What you need to know!
What Every Embroiderer Should Know About Contract Digitizers [...]