Library
Books, podcasts, videos and guides chosen for people who make and sell customized products — each with a note on why it's worth your time.
Sulky
Part of Sulky's beginner machine embroidery series, this episode explains what the main types of stabilizer do, how to choose one for a given project and the different w…
Angela Jasmina
Baby bodysuits and small t-shirts are fiddly to hoop, and they are staple products for many Etsy embroidery sellers. Angela Jasmina shows how she hoops onesies and t-shi…
Angela Jasmina
Angela Jasmina, who built her embroidered-apparel business from home, covers the basics she believes you need before starting an embroidery business of your own. It suit…
Ricoma TV
In this Embroidery Hub episode, Willy from Ricoma explains the key differences between digitizing a design for flat garments and digitizing it for caps, and then demonst…
Ricoma TV
Carl from Ricoma walks through the entire process of embroidering custom patches, step by step, using the company's Creator machine. It is pitched at beginners as well a…
Ricoma TV
The Richardson 112 trucker is one of the most popular caps in decorated apparel, and getting clean embroidery on it takes some care. In this Ricoma video the team breaks…
Melco Embroidery
Josh from Melco's applications team demonstrates making custom patches with the appliqué method, in which a piece of fabric forms part of the design instead of the whole…
Melco Embroidery
For shops running Melco machines with the Wide Angle Cap Frame, this video shows how to hoop a cap on that frame. Hooped the way it demonstrates, the cap can take a desi…
Melco Embroidery
A short Melco lesson on how hoop tension and hooping technique affect the quality of the finished stitch-out, with recommended practices for hooping garments. Worth watc…
Madeira USA
Left-chest logos are everyday work for most embroidery shops, and they need to land in the same spot on every shirt. This Madeira USA guide shares left-chest placement t…
Madeira USA
Jeff from Madeira USA takes a 3D puff cap job from hooping to finishing. You will see how to hoop a structured cap so it stays stable, align the design with the seam for…
Madeira USA
A plain-spoken conversation from Madeira USA's Nancy and Jeff about what matters most with embroidery thread. They explain why setting tension is the core skill, why the…
Madeira USA
Nancy and Jeff from Madeira USA explain the stabilizer rule they repeat most often: the layer touching the fabric matters most. You will learn to treat backing as a prim…
Hatch Embroidery
For Hatch Embroidery users who already know basic digitizing and want to add appliqué. The lesson shows that creating an appliqué object works much like digitizing any o…
Hope Yoder
Hope Yoder, who has worked in embroidery for 30 years and runs her own personalization business, built this show for people turning an embroidery machine into a paying b…
Adrian Vonarx & Carlos Colon · Print On Demand Podcast
For online sellers thinking about adding embroidered hats to a print-on-demand brand. Host Adrian Vonarx says embroidered hats have brought in more than $1 million acros…
Dina Anaya · The Maker's Money Podcast
A pricing method for home embroiderers who run more than one machine but still do the hooping, finishing, packing and shipping themselves. Dina starts from the hourly in…
Dina Anaya · The Maker's Money Podcast
For Etsy sellers whose most popular personalized item keeps them busy but not paid. Dina Anaya describes discovering, only after reading her profit and loss report month…
Hope Yoder · Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder
Aimed at shop owners who approve designs with customers. Hope explains why she does not send clients an on-screen digitized rendering and instead tests the design on scr…
Hope Yoder · Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder
New to machine embroidery and lost in the jargon? Hope defines the words you will hear from digitizers and customers: throat plate, bobbin and tension, backing versus to…
Hope Yoder · Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder
A practical listen for embroiderers who want steady business customers rather than one-off gift orders. Hope explains how she uses networking groups such as BNI to reach…
Hope Yoder · Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder
For new embroidery sellers who freeze when a customer asks for a price. Hope covers thinking like a retailer instead of a hobbyist, wholesale versus retail pricing, setu…
Hope Yoder · Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder
If your designs pucker or look tired after a wash, start here. Hope explains when to use tearaway or cutaway stabilizer, why polyester thread tends to outlast rayon, how…
Hope Yoder · Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder
Planning to buy your first embroidery machine, or wondering whether you have outgrown the one you have? Hope Yoder walks through the options, from single-needle flatbeds…
Mary Mulari
A short project book for machine appliqué that goes beyond the basic method. It shows how to work with altered fabrics, overlays, backgrounds and layering, across 13 pro…
Irem Yazici
Small-scale hand embroidery for making your own patches, badges, pins and buttons. The book offers 50 motifs and 20 beginner-friendly projects with step-by-step instruct…
Juliette Michelet
Ten short lessons for first-time hand stitchers. They cover transferring a motif so it sits exactly where you want it, starting and finishing neatly, the essential stitc…
Betty Barnden
A hand-embroidery stitch dictionary with more than 200 stitches, from basic chain stitch to Florentine canvas work. Each stitch gets step-by-step instructions, a diagram…
Bonnie Nielsen
A digitizing book by a professional puncher with more than 25 years in the embroidery trade, written for people who create stitch files for industrial embroidery machine…
Elizabeth Keegan
Aimed at sewing-machine owners who stitch ready-made embroidery designs. It explains the types and file formats of designs, how to get a downloaded design onto your mach…
Lisa Archer
Written for people just getting started with an embroidery machine. Step-by-step instructions cover stabilizer, thread, fabric and hooping, then move on to appliqué, cus…
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…
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…
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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