Book
Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs
Jeanine Twigg
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Read with a project in mind
- Read the summary below and choose one question you want the book to answer.
- Open the book’s original page to check the edition, contents and access options.
- Keep a short note: the idea, where you found it, and how you could apply it to your next project.
Why we picked it
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.
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