Embroidery Flops
Christmas tablecloth
Thursday, September 25th, 2008I agree with the rest of you on the placemats – the red borders with the green triangles! That’s my favorite as well.
The tablecloth – This is the first thing I thought of doing with the beautiful borders in this collection. Those large, beautiful borders on that bolt of fabric are just calling for mitered [...]
Screws & nuts; The overlooked factor in machine embroidery
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008A well digitized design, correct stabilizer, proper stabilizing methods and quality fabric and thread are all keys to a great stitched embroidery design. But there is one very important factor that often gets overlooked – the hoop screw and nut. If all the above are achieved, but the screw or nut in your hoop is [...]
When disaster strikes, not once, not twice, not three times, but four times!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Oh…I had such great plans for today(and thankfully the day is not yet over)! Since I had a bunch of computer work caught up yesterday, today my plan was to sew and embroider all day! Exciting, yes I know! Until the first disaster struck…
I hooped my stabilizer, noticing slightly that my hoop screw was starting [...]
Quick Solutions for Embroidery Mistakes
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007This is the sixth and final lesson in our series – Common Embroidery Flops, Causes & Solutions! I hope you have picked up some tips to use in the next design that doesn’t turn out the way it should!
The first step when you are stitching embroidery designs is to eliminate as many possible problems that [...]
Fabric is caught under the hoop! How can that be fixed?
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007This is the fifth lesson in our series – Common Embroidery Flops, Causes & Solutions!
What do you do when you remove your hoop from the machine and discover the fabric is caught in the stitching underneath the hoop? Perhaps it is only a small corner, but sometime it ends up being a huge chunk. Yes, [...]
How can I fix that hole in my embroidery design?
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007This is the fourth lesson in our series – Common Embroidery Flops, Causes & Solutions!
You are watching your machine as it is stitching the design. The design looks fantastic and it is almost finished! You turn your head away and then suddenly hear a strange sound! As your head whips around, you stare in disbelief [...]
Eliminating Puckers Around Designs
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007This is the third lesson in our series – Common Embroidery Flops, Causes & Solutions!
We have all had it happen to designs we have stitched. After the design is finished, there are puckers or wrinkles in the fabric around the design. Sometime it is so bad that the fabric will be tucked in small areas [...]
505 Spray Adhesive Stains
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007This is the second lesson in our series – Common Embroidery Flops, Causes & Solutions!
505 Spray Adhesive Stains
505 is a wonderful spray adhesive to use when sticking my fabric to my stabilizer when I am stitching machine embroidery designs. But occasionally some of the adhesive gets sprayed on the fabric. Sometime it is caused by [...]
How do you fix the white specs in your embroidery design?
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007This is the first lesson in our series – Common Embroidery Flops, Causes & Solutions!
Your two hour design has just finished stitching. You unsnap the hoop from the machine to take a closer look at your newest creation and see little white specs throughout the design!! What are these specs? Why are they there? How [...]
Common Embroidery Flops, Causes & Solutions
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007What do you do when your embroidery design doesn’t look like it should when it is finished? Can your design be recovered when the power is to the machine is lost and your design onscreen disappears? A needle breaks and rips a whole in your fabric; can that be repaired? Your machine was bumped and [...]