Puckers are those nasty little things that appear around the edges of your embroidery designs. Sometimes, if you’re not careful, they can turn into nasty big things – and you always wish that they weren’t there! If you’re working on a project that is…
The majority of pieced quilts are created from square blocks, with the sides of each block being parallel to the sides of the quilt. A great example of this is the Silk Hearts quilt. On-point refers to quilts in which the blocks are placed…
Needles are one of the essentials for machine embroidered appliqué. Using the right one can make a big difference. One of the questions that gets asked is: Do you choose the needle based on fabric or thread? The answer is, it depends! For the…
A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting I used to mark my background fabric directly using various types of fabric marking pen. That is until the time I left a marked quilt in the back of my car and the marking pen got…
A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting When you’re doing machine embroidered appliqué you’re going to generate lint. There’s no way (that I know of!) around it. Lint comes from various sources: thread (even if it claims to be lint free!) fabric stabilizer…
A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Appliqué Kits can be a lifesaver: If you’re short on time and see a project that you love If you don’t have “color sense” and the thought of choosing your own fabrics and threads fills you with…
A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting Jump stitches occur when an embroidery machine “jumps” from one part of the design to a different part of the design. When doing machine embroidered appliqué, they are inevitable if you have more than one appliqué…
A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting Pellon Shape-Flex is my favorite interfacing to use for most of my machine embroidery and quilting projects. Why would you need to use interfacing for a machine embroidery and/or quilting project? In a nutshell, interfacing is…
A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting If you have an embroidery machine then it will come with at least one hoop to be used with it. While it can definitely be said that “the bigger the better” where hoops are concerned, biggest…
A to Z of Machine Embroidery and Quilting The AccuQuilt GO! fabric cutting machine is a great tool for cutting appliqué shapes if you’re cutting a lot of the same shapes and you want speed and precision. The cutter works with specially designed dies…
