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Embroidery Basics: Marking and Hooping Your Project

As I travel around the country, I find that I am often asked about hooping. Hooping is the most essential – but probably the least understood – component of embroidery. A lot of the embroidery “mistakes” that we tend to blame on stabilizers or designs may actually be a result of improper hooping techniques. One of

Top 5 Tips for Successful Free-Motion Quilting

We’re sharing our top five tips to more successful free-motion quilting!

Meet the Walking Foot #50

Quilter Jacquie Gering shares some advice about the BERNINA Walking Foot #50. As a home quilter, this foot can be your best friend and open the door to creative quilting possibilities.

Take the Fear Out of Sewing with Knits

Sewing with knit material, even without a serger, can be a fun and pleasant experience so long as you take your time and keep a few tips and tricks in mind.

Crazy Spider Table Topper

I purchased this adorable Spidey Table Topper pattern by Silk Road Creations at a local quilt shop and decided this would be the perfect weekend project — it took less than a half day to complete! The project can be constructed on nearly any sewing machine; all you need is a straight stitch, basic zigzag, and a walking foot.

Holiday Serging & Simple Sewing — Friday, Oct.14

The holidays are only two months away! Have you started your gift-making? Join Jo for “Holiday Serging & Simple Sewing,” a webinar on quick and easy gifts you can make on your serger, along with a few fast sewing and embroidery projects.

Rediscovering Wonder Tape

Wonder Tape — What’s YOUR favorite use for this WONDER-ful notion?

Manual Buttonholes with Buttonhole Foot #3/3C

Learn how to create a buttonhole manually with the Buttonhole Foot with Slide #3A/3B/3C.

“Free-Motion” Couching — by Embroidery Machine!

Here is a fun tip for using embroidery to mimic free motion couching.

Keep a Clean Machine!

Keep your sewing machine clean and happy! Here’s some advice from John Gass at Sandi’s Sewing Connection. He’s been cleaning and repairing machines for many years, and sees the same problems over and over – many of which can be avoided by keeping your machine clean and oiled.

WARNING: These photos may frighten your sewing machine!