Articles related to: embroidery
1: Quilting - Considering Some Of The Best Books
Whether you are a beginning quilter, or an advanced practitioner of the craft, you will find many books on quilting that will help advance your knowledge. Quilting books fall roughly into several cate..
2: Selling at Craft Fairs: What to Bring and How to Impress
Your items are all made. You have done your research on how to price these treasures you have been working on for so long. Now it is time to get packed up and go! There are some essential and not-so-e..
3: Treat Your Clothing Well; It Will Return The Favor
The clothes you make and the clothes you buy will look nicer and last longer if you care for them properly and intelligently. Listed here are some suggestions for clothing care:1. As soon as you remov..
4: Custom Work Uniforms Enhancing Your Image
There is no reason why you should wear the same old styles of uniforms to your workplace every day of the week, every week of the year, especially when there are so many custom work uniforms to choose..
5: Mending Minor Rips and Tears
Mending can be fun if you treat it as an art and work for careful, durable, flat finishes. Study the weave of the fabric and try to duplicate it. Try to get as invisible a finish as possible except wh..
6: Is A Embroidery Business A Viable Business For You?
One does not have to look far to find some form of embroidery. Embroidery is located on hats, shirts, jackets, and coats which generates millions of dollars each year for the people that embroider the..
7: The Basics For Sewing Beginners
The information presented here is the kind that will later become routine to you. Most of the time, two pieces of fabric are sewed together with right sides facing each other and wrong sides of the fa..
8: The Sewing Machine Explained
Operating a sewing machine is comparatively simple. Anyone can learn to do it well and proficiency is merely a matter of practice. You will get the most satisfaction out of sewing if you own your mach..
9: Essential Sewing Equipment Explained
The cave woman of prehistoric times used a fishbone with a hole in it for a needle, and a tough animal sinew for thread. In like fashion, modern women can sew with only a needle and thread. However, i..
10: The Influence of Cross Stitch on Bookmark Designs
In the early days of the fifteenth century, respect for all books was second only to respect for the Bible alone. Books were few in number and considered valuable due to the fact not many were printed..
11: How to Avoid Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) when Cross Stitching
Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is thought to be caused by work tasks which are performed repeatedly, thereby causing muscular strain and eventually injury. RSI can be defined as inflammation of the te..
12: 5 Things You Must Know When Using Beads in Cross Stitch
Beads can add a wonderful touch to your cross-stitch project. They bring dimension and beauty to any needlework. However, there are some things you need to know about beads so you can make sure they a..
13: What's The Difference Between DMC and Anchor Yarns
There are many different types of cross-stitching and embroidery yarns, and a multitude of companies that produce them. What is the difference between them and their yarns? Let's look closely at two o..
14: How To Clean Your Cross Stitch Pictures
After you spend many hours creating a beautiful cross stitch picture, the last thing you want to do is damage it during cleaning. Many experts suggest you always clean your projects when you finish to..
15: Who Else Wants to Cross Stitch on Plastic Canvas?
If you haven't tried cross stitching on plastic canvas, you should. With plastic canvas, you can create unique cross stitch projects that you can't create with fabric. For instance, because the plasti..
16: Why the Colors of Yarn and Threads Are Such A Calming Therapy
The idea of basket weaving as a form of therapy, traditionally used for patients with mental illness is often laughed at. But in a way, there is wisdom in the use of crafts for having a calming effect..
17: How To Start Creating Your Own Cross Stitch Designs (Part I)
Have you ever searched for ages and not found that particular pattern you've been dreaming about doing? Instead of getting frustrated and giving up, why not try creating your own cross stitch designs?..
18: My Worst Cross Stitch Nightmare: A Cautionary Tale!
I can read. I can count. I can thread a needle... so why did everything suddenly go wrong with a counted cross stitch project I started last year? I began enthusiastically enough. I had planned to sti..
19: Sun, Sea, Sand, and ... Stitching!
Going away on holiday can be a great opportunity to indulge yourself in your favourite pastime... cross stitching, of course! There's the prospect of lots of time to spend on what you want to do, with..
20: The Cost Of Embroidery Digitizing. How Much Is Too Much?
You are enjoying using your new embroidery machine. However, you have several images that you want digitized into embroidery patterns. You've done your research on who you want to have digitize these ..
21: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part V
For more than a year British ships had blockaded Boston and British troops had occupied the hungry city. Americans had fought and died at Lexington, at Concord, on Breed's Hill and at Charleston. The ..
22: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part IV
Only one form of American needlework is wholly American, without root or kin in the Old World; that is our pieced patchwork. Oh, patches are nothing new.Ancient Egyptians sewed fabric to fabric, and i..
23: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part III
In typical Old World needlework, each detail is a particle of the whole; no part of the design can stand alone, whole and complete in itself. The background is solid, the pattern is formal, and a bord..
24: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part II
Three hundred years ago the then colonies in America were inhabited largely by a European hierarchy who'd brought their lower classes with them to do the hard work. There was much mingling and interma..
25: How To Look For Embroidery Digitizers
You are looking for embroidery digitizers online and have a dilemma. If you are going to spend the money to get your embroidery pattern digitized, you want only the best there is to do the work for yo..
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