Showing posts with label machine embroidery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machine embroidery. Show all posts

12/27/2010

Machine Embroidery Makes the Quilt: 6 Creative Projects CD with 26 Designs Unleash Your Embroidery Machine's Potential [Bargain Price] [Paperback] Review

Machine Embroidery Makes the Quilt: 6 Creative Projects  CD with 26 Designs  Unleash Your Embroidery Machine's Potential [Paperback]Excellant book but, beware! This book's CD designscan not be downloaded to Husqvarna machines using the older reader-writer cards.

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Product Description:
For quilters who want to learn to do more with their machine embroidery, this book provides six classic projects with elegant twists. Quilters learn how to choose and customize designs for all their projects, whether they are embroidering embellishments on selected blocks or an entire quilt. This guide is full of tips on interpreting favorite techniques like applique and embellishment in embroidery.
Patty Albin is a quilt appraiser, fabric designer, and former editor of Quiltmaker magazine. She has won numerous awards for her embroidered quilts, and she teaches quilters across the country to use machine embroidery in their work. She lives in Westminster, CO.

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12/02/2010

Creative Machine Stitching: Special Effects for Quilts and More (That Patchwork Place) [Paperback] Review

Creative Machine Stitching: Special Effects for Quilts and More [Paperback]This book details some stunning embroidery and embellishment techniques that even a beginner can accomplish.Each section includes a project with very clear instructions and diagrams.A complete supply list (including thread weight, needle type/size, what kind of stabilizer to use, which presser foot, how to adjust the bobbin/machine tension, etc.) is provided with each project. I higly recommend this book to anyone who has always wanted an embroidery machine but can't afford it.

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Product Description:
Create shimmering waves with silver thread. Make flowers out of fluffy yarns. Start a snowfall with iridescent threads. Stitch delicate leaves, stars, vines, and much more--no fancy sewing machine required! A world of ideas for easy machine embroidery is packed into this authoritative guide.
- Eleven exquisite projects include quilts, linens, pillows, and curtains
- Learn thread, bobbin, crewel, and ribbon embroidery, plus a host of finishing touches
- Find out how to choose threads, needles, and stabilizers for machine-guided and free-motion embroidery
From the author of Stylish Sewing.

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11/05/2010

Piece in the Hoop: 20 Quilt Projects + 40 Machine Embroidery Designs [Paperback] Review

Piece in the Hoop: 20 Quilt Projects + 40 Machine Embroidery Designs [Paperback]This is an advertisement without the specifics that machine embroiders need.What are the most popular formats; SEW JEF ART ?What is the size of the stitch field required for the designs; 4X4, 6X8, 5X7, 8X8 or other?I have used these techniques with great success from other sources but I would not purchase this without knowing these answers in advance.I have wasted money in the past on designs that were too big for my machine and all the books with design CDs are not returnable.

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Discover step-by-step how to Piece in the Hoop, a technique that allows you to sew precision quilt blocks on your machine embroidery machine. Whether you're an enthusiast of machine embroidery or quilting, this book allows you to expand your skills and make beautiful quilts through this sewing technique. In addition, the book includes 20 embroidery designs, quilt- block outline designs and 20 projects for using your stitch-out blocks to make interesting, attention-grabbing projects. As part of the Create with Nancy series, the book will also include Nancy's Notes and a video with Nancy Zieman and Larisa Bland featuring the technique.

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