I have been reading and talking a lot about embroidery machines and how they work and have gathered some gems of wisdom from experienced people who work daily with machine embroidery (and from the mishaps and failures I have had at my own machine). Embroidery designs You can use any of the stock designs available … Read more
An embroiderer is an artist who re-creates beautiful pictures with embroidery thread. The resultant work is as worthy as any other artwork and a source of great admiration. When you have invested a lot of your time and creativity and made a work worthy of your passion and time, you have to have it displayed … Read more
You do not need much to transform any piece of clothing from blah to wow. Just some embroidery thread, needle, hoop, a suitable method to transfer the image to the fabric, and some hours to spare and the patience of Buddha – just kidding. Embroidery uses wonderfully vivid colored threads to depict beautiful designs on … Read more
Wearable Art! sounds so lofty, but what if I tell you that you can easily do it yourself – through Tshirt painting? A T-shirt is your blank canvas, and with some fabric paint, brushes, and a plain Tshirt, you can go berserk and be the artist and then wear it yourself. When it comes to Tshirt … Read more
Some rules when making any one of the yoyos given here: The circle you cut should be twice the diameter of the yo-yo you want to make plus 1/8 inch. The longer the running stitches you make for gathering the edge, the larger the opening at the center. If you make small running stitches you … Read more
Do you want to own your fabric? Like, really totally own it! With your own images which you have seen and loved in a magazine or maybe photographed it yourself or created it in your computer with beautiful images interspersed with lettering and graphics like on this Next t-shirt. Transferring photographs or picture or any … Read more