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Pocket Guide to Stabilizers: Carry-Along Reference Guide
Sue O'Very
A 56-page carry-along reference that does one job: helping you pick the right stabilizer. It explains the main types, including tear-away and cut-away, and matches them…
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Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs
Jeanine Twigg
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. M…
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Machine Embroidery With Confidence: A Beginner's Guide
Nancy Zieman
A plain-spoken beginner's course in machine embroidery. It walks through the tools you need, setting up the work area, machine types, choosing designs, positioning with…
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Practical recommendations, not an endless list.
A focused point of view. We choose books that can help a maker, digitizer or customization business solve a real next-step problem.
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