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.

Every quilter with an embroidery machine needs this book! 6 classic projects.

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.

Award winning designer Ursula Michael brings her popular and heart-warming designs to machine embroidery. Now, you can fill your home with her colorful, fun and imaginative designs in projects created for every season! &break;&break;In this new book, Ursula gives you: &break;&break;38 delightful projects perfect for gift-giving as well as home decorations &break;&break;Bonus CD with 42 charming original designs for machine embroidery &break;&break;Friendly instruction, complete materials and tools lists, spectacular color combination ideas and full-color photos for each project. &break;&break;Whimsical Machine Embroidery will show you how to use your sewing skills to create fun and festive handmade accessories for every season. See how easy it is to embroider a spooky witch's hat banner, ghostly treat bags, chilly penguin ornaments, snuggly snowmen (and snowbabies!), gingerbread boy and girl towels and much more. &break;&break;Sew your way through the year with these happy, colorful seasonal designs. Start stitching today!

Find endless inspiration with this photo guide to embroidery stitches. Discover the 120 hand-embroidery stitches that every embroiderer should have in their stitching arsenal, with clear, step-by-step photos you can come back to time and again! Contemporary needlework teacher Sharon Boggon’s forward-thinking ideas will help you view hand embroidery through a vibrant new lens. Beginners and seasoned embroiderers will gain the confidence to create new patterns by playing with the stitches—manipulating the height and width, making asymmetrical loops, stacking up designs, or filling multiple rows with the same stitch. With so many creative variations and the author’s gorgeous samplers, you’ll be inspired to incorporate new techniques in your own crazy quilts and modern projects. Essential guide to surface embroidery! 120 contemporary stitches, including left-hand stitches, with step-by-step photos See how tiny tweaks to each stitch can take your needlework to unexpected places Play up the possibilities with modern fill patterns, asymmetry, luscious texture, and crazy quilting