Learn to bring flare and sophistication to your clothes and accessories with this guide to machine embroidery by an award-winning designer. Bobbi Bullard is known for her unique and elegantly crafted embroidery designs. Now she shares her tips and techniques for turning hand-sewn or store-bought clothing into wearable art that you can really wear. Bobbi shows you how to use basic design principles to get professional-looking results with any home embroidery machine. Artful Machine Embroidery includes a complete supply guide to ensure your work is successful. Whether you’re embellishing hand-sewn or store-bought clothing, you’ll learn how to add sophisticated designer style that is uniquely you. This eBook edition includes a link to 20 downloadable designs for borders, motifs, applique, Richelieu, and lace.

Simple Steps to Beautiful Results from Your Embroidery Machine. Learn to use machine embroidery to enhance your projects. For all sewing machines with embroidery attachments-and every embroidery design. Add special touches to quilts, garments, accessories, home décor, and paper crafts! Patty takes the mystery out of stabilizers, threads, and tools. First-time embroiderer? No problem! Patty includes lots of photographs and detailed instructions with every step. Exercises will help you advance your skills. Experienced embroiderers will be inspired by Patty's ideas for combining embroidery with techniques like appliqué, fabric painting, and embellishment.

Broaden your repertoire of original machine embroidery techniques and develop your own designs and unique pieces with plenty of practical instructions and creative inspiration. Lovely full-color photos and diagrams, expert guidelines, tips and hints, and a variety of sampler projects help you to make the most of your sewing machine and produce breathtaking results. Using fundamental design concepts such as lines, grids, and borders, this must-have resource takes you from the basics to beyond.

Filled with exciting projects, this book is a how-to guide for textile artists looking to learn all the methods and techniques they need to begin "painting with threads" using their own home sewing machine. This is destined to become a classic handbook, with chapters covering all the basics, including tools and materials; methods and techniques; using your sewing machine; experimenting with threads, fabrics, and colors; and creating your own designs and presenting your work. It will inspire enthusiastic beginners with limited textiles skills, as well as engage more experienced textile artists who wish to understand and adopt new techniques. The book is like taking a series of technique-based master classes, with step-by-step photographs to illustrate each stage of the process.

An invaluable reference guide to the latest machine embroidery techniques, materials and equipment, all in handy A-Z format. Entries include correct tension settings, digitized motifs, enlarging patterns, fabric sculpture, gold thread, hand embroidery machines, interlaced machine stitches, lace techniques, multi-head machines, overlockers reverse stitching, smocking, understitching, whitework and many more. Embracing both free motion and computerised embroidery, this book contains all you need to know to make the most of your machine.

Pamela Watts explores all the techniques with infectious enthusiasm, showing how to work the stitches, adjust tension, layer fabrics, develop surfaces, build up texture, create lacy effects with water soluble fabric and more. Step-by-step photographs accompany a series of projects which are designed to improve skills and the book is packed with expert advice on all aspects of machine embroidery. A final section takes you beyond fabrics into using metal, mesh, handmade paper and more. Vibrant and exciting designs can be created easily using these materials. The effect is stunning when they are combined with soft and transparent fabrics, and lustrous threads.