Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs

Covers the whole home-machine embroidery process in one place: choosing designs, thread, stabilizer and needles, then hooping, placing the design and stitching it out. More than 250 color photos and illustrations make it easy to follow at the machine. Useful as a reference for anyone who learned by trial and error and wants the reasoning behind each step. Published in 2001 with a design CD, so check that a used copy still includes the disc.