Insights
Australia celebrates most major holidays differently from the Northern Hemisphere, which gives local crafters a unique opportunity to create distinctive pieces…
Three-dimensional puffy embroidery has moved from sportswear factories into home craft rooms across Australia, and one of the small consumables that makes the…
Quilting with embroidery designs brings two satisfying crafts together: piecing fabric into a quilt top and adding decorative machine stitching for texture,…
Towels are practical, popular, and surprisingly difficult to embroider well. Their absorbent loops can catch on the presser foot, pull through the design, or…
Thread tension problems can turn a neat embroidery design into a messy tangle of loops, bobbin thread showing on top, or stitches that look loose and uneven.…
Choosing an embroidery design is exciting until the download arrives and the file will not open on your machine. A beautiful floral monogram, footy emblem, or…
Hooping a T-shirt for machine embroidery takes a gentler approach than working with a firm woven fabric. Knits stretch, curl and recover as you handle them, so…
The top 10 floral embroidery designs that sell at craft fairs usually share three qualities: they are easy to recognise, adaptable to useful products, and…
Turning a business logo into an embroidery file involves more than tracing an image and pressing “export”. Thread behaves differently from ink or pixels: small…
Embroidery can be created by guiding fabric yourself beneath a moving needle or by allowing a computerised machine to stitch a prepared pattern. Both methods…