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Using puffy foam for machine embroidery
After more than 10 years as a machine embroidery enthusiast I finally got around to using puffy foam. It is funny how you put off trying things till you absolutely have to. I had a customer who wanted a baseball cap for a sports team and I needed to replicate one he already had. Not drama on the digitising side of things I can do that with my eyes shut, yes rally I can. I had to make a Halloween spider last year an
How to remove embroidery stitches
The first thing I have to say is that patience is the embroiderer’s best friend. Things will go wrong. That is fine then you will learn how to fix them.
A friend of my recently said, you are not an embroiderer until you stitch something into the hoop. Well I definitely qualify; my best effort at this was to stitch the front of my jeans leg to the back of them with a 10,000 stitch design. I now see that as a v
Australian Animal embroidery designs
I just loved these abstract Australian animal images so I have digitised them all to make a really cute design set. So have fun with my Australian Animal Art embroidery design set.
New Australian Animal design set at Embroidery Allsorts
Or you can get the individual designs at Australian embroidery designs
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Should you download free embroidery designs?
The answer is yes and no. If you are going to download some freebies there are a few things you should be aware of. Are the designs the digitizers own work? or are they giving away someone else’s work? Do they have the right to give them away? I have seen one website where the entire site was freebies and it appeared that the purpose of the free stuff was to get people to the page to see the weight loss produ
Common terms used in Machine Embroidery
Digitizing; Digitizing embroidery is the term used for turning an image into an embroidery design, this requires special software and the process can be anything from fairly simple to quite complex. Some skills and practice are necessary to become proficient in digitizing. This process was once known as punching as the person creating the design would have to punch holes in paper to give the correct instructions t
