Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs

by Jeanine Twigg, Lindee Goodall (Foreword)

Embroidery machines are the hottest trend in home sewing, with over 400,000 machines in use. The possibilities are endless when it comes to embellishing everything from kids’ wear to table linens. This guide provides essential information that goes beyond the basic instruction manual for owners of a home embroidery machine or combination sewing-embroidery machine. Taking the guesswork out of using a home embroidery machine, this book covers the entire embroidery process from choosing designs, threads, stabilizers and needles to hooping, design placement and stitching techniques. Simple projects are made easy with step-by-step instructions, allowing readers to experiment with their new skills and embroidery techniques. A handy troubleshooting section helps solve problems along the way. Includes a bonus CD featuring 6 exclusive embroidery designs digitized by award-winning Lindee Goodall, owner of Cactus Punch®. - Includes a free CD with 6 exclusive designs—a $35 value!
- Tips and techniques for stitching decorative designs onto purchased or sewn items
- An inspiring gallery of project ideas

Genres: Sewing, Crafts

144 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

Reviews

[Rebecca Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is the best general overview that I've found for new machine embroiderers. In Chapter 2: Embroidery Products and Chapter 3: The Embroidery Process, Twigg does a good job of introducing newbies to the mechanics of machine embroidery, including proper hooping technique, an overview of different types of stabilizers and their appropriate use for embroidery, and recommended placement of embroidery on common items such as shirts, towels, and linens. The troubleshooting guide in Appendix I is useful as well, and Twigg does address the most challenging aspects of machine embroidery for most beginners, with clear explanations. However, this book was published in 2001 and the entire first chapter covering equipment choices is hopelessly outdated. Floppy disks and proprietary design cards have been dinosaurs for a long time, and because technology changes so quickly, it really should have been left out of the book entirely. The projects featured in the last part of the book are, for the most part, unbelievably ugly and make you wonder why anyone would bother learning machine embroidery in the first place. For that reason, the CD containing the embroidery designs featured in these projects is not much of a bonus, in my opinion.

[Nonnie · Rating 3 out of 5]

2001


This was the first book on machine embroidery I purchased. I had just gotten a SINGER FURTURA first level embroidery machine and was anxious to learn how to use the machine. This book was one of the first of a series of machine embroidery books written by Ms Twiggs. She went through a lot of information that a sewer needs to know to learn how to machine embroider: threads, needles, stabilizers, hooping, placement, you name it the book covers it. This book is and excellent resource for a beginner.

I discovered I DO NOT LIKE DOING MACHINE EMBROIDERY. I would get rid of the book but my Bernina 440Q is capable of doing machine embroidery if I wanted to. I think the motifs are hokey and I do not plan to invest in hundreds of new patterns... so why bother. I am keeping this book for now... maybe someday I will offer it for a donation.


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[Belinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good basic info for getting started.