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 …

You will LOVE this Kreative Kiwi machine embroidery design – it’s finished completely in the hoop and is perfect for summertime- it’s fast, easy and looks fantastic!! The best part? It’s A FREE ITH DESIGN!! Thanks, Kreative Kiwi! Head over to Kreative Kiwi and get this design for FREE! WARNING: ONCE YOU TRY ONE OF …

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 …

Let’s keep making FREE Digitizing/Embroidery classes!

Have you joined the facebook group OML Embroidery University yet?  I am so happy with this group – it’s a fantastic place to be for embroidery. I wanted to take a few moments to explain to everyone what I am doing with this group and the youtube channel: I want to explain my goals and …

FREE EMBIRD STUDIO TUTORIALS

First class uploaded today! Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss any free classes. More to come! https://goo.gl/RHvAop

Going Old School, hard work pays off

There seems to be a trend gong on spanning a generation or two, but people have forgotten all about hard work!  It seems that everything should be free, or easy and something that is free or easy is worthwhile? I am not that old, but the way I grew up was following the old sayings …

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 …

Learn How to Digitize: Cute Cat Design

Wilcom Hatch/Janome Digitizer MBX V5 beginner embroidery lesson, beginner level. Learn how to digitize this awesome and cute cat design – learn step by step by step how to digitize this super cute embroidery design.   In this class, we use some different techniques to complete the design and learn a few different ways to …

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 …

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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