Beginner Embroidery Lessons

Beginner embroidery lessons to get you started with Embird and Embird Studio

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Do you speak embroidery?

Embroidery Lingo Let’s talk embroidery!  Do you know the lingo?  There are quite a few embroidery terms, short forms, and verbs that we need to be using properly to speak the embroidery lingo properly.  Using the correct terms will help everyone understand your comment or question better, and it will also help you make more […]

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Part 4 of the Dream Machine 2 + Scan n Cut DX225 series – the grand stitching finale!

This was a fun project to work on!  It’s so creative, and the sky’s the limit!! In the first video, we created an applique design from an existing design on the Dream Machine – we did some outlines and some satin stitches offset so we don’t cover up the beautiful embroidery AND we put it

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Stabilizer: How important is it?

VERY IMPORTANT. Knowing what stabilizer to use is very important when you are creating or completing embroidery.  You need to know the correct one, every time.  When I first started doing embroidery and digitizing many years ago,  someone said this to me: You are only as good as your hooping skills. That didn’t make a

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Beware of some Youtube Videos

This blog post might be a bit of a rant, but also somewhat of a warning, too.  I was trying to do some research on some new techniques for embroidery (reverse applique and the ever intriguing cross stitch), and I came upon some videos that shocked me. OK, let’s start by saying that I do

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Class 5: Digitizing from a Photograph with no copyright issues.

This is the newest class released just yesterday: Digitizing from a Photograph. While it was recorded using the Hatch software, it is going to be applicable to ANY embroidery software. Yes, I have instructions with Hatch, but you can easily translate them to the software that you use. And why would you do this? because

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