Creative Beginnings In Machine Embroidery

Simple Steps to Beautiful Results from Your Embroidery Machine. Learn to use machine embroidery to enhance your projects. For all sewing machines with embroidery attachments-and every embroidery design. Add special touches to quilts, garments, accessories, home décor, and paper crafts! Patty takes the mystery out of stabilizers, threads, and tools. First-time embroiderer? No problem! Patty includes lots of photographs and detailed instructions with every step. Exercises will help you advance your skills. Experienced embroiderers will be inspired by Patty's ideas for combining embroidery with techniques like appliqué, fabric painting, and embellishment.

Add words and phrases to your quilt projects using appliqué and embroidery in 6 different lettering styles.

Filled with exciting projects, this book is a how-to guide for textile artists looking to learn all the methods and techniques they need to begin "painting with threads" using their own home sewing machine. This is destined to become a classic handbook, with chapters covering all the basics, including tools and materials; methods and techniques; using your sewing machine; experimenting with threads, fabrics, and colors; and creating your own designs and presenting your work. It will inspire enthusiastic beginners with limited textiles skills, as well as engage more experienced textile artists who wish to understand and adopt new techniques. The book is like taking a series of technique-based master classes, with step-by-step photographs to illustrate each stage of the process.

An excellent introduction for anyone wanting to learn a portfolio of original, creative machine embroidery techniques. Included are steps to finding and developing designs and themes to be used by the reader in the creation of their own original designs. Step-by-step, the book then leads to the selection and preparation of appropriate fabric and threads, the application of design to fabric, and the working of machine stitches to depict and enhance the selected design.

Fabrics, materials, threads and tools - Image and theme - Stitches and techniques - Samplers - Finishing touches.

Here, quite literally, is the true "cutting edge" of sewing today -- machines featuring computerized programs for stitches that used to require years of practice but now are available even to busy beginners. Whether you already own one of these "miracle machines" or are just thinking what you can do if you buy one, take this opportunity to discover the latest and best project ideas for embroidery machines. You get a fascinating introduction to the full range of new sewing machines on the market, along with dear explanations of the bewildering advances. Complete instructions cover the new sewing machines, scanners, and computerized "sew on their own" embroidery machines. Projects feature home decorations, garments and accessories for your wardrobe, and special gift ideas like personalized Christmas items, invitations, birth announcements, and many other holiday and personalized designs. Find your inspiration to join the computer revolution, as you master many delicate techniques that would have been impossible with even the most advanced machines just a few years ago. Published in hardcover as Creative Sewing Projects with Computerized Machines.