Why does my embroidery pucker? A common problem that you may have come across when you’re stitching is that the fabric starts to pucker. So frustrating! There could be a …
Can You Wash Hand Embroidered Clothes? Over the years, I’ve gotten this question a lot. Occasionally, I’ll embroider a piece of clothing or stitch a pet portrait on a sweatshirt …
The most commonly used embroidery floss is 6-strand cotton floss. This floss is great for surface embroidery and cross stitch because of it’s divisible strands of thread. A frequent question …
You’re all done stitching, and now you’re wondering what to do with your finished embroidery project! The most common way, of course, is to keep the embroidery in the hoop …
The woven Picot is an embroidery stitch that is commonly used in stumpwork or raised embroidery. The base of the picot is attached to the fabric, but the thread is …
How To Keep An Embroidery Hoop Tight When I first started embroidery, I would get really frustrated when my fabric would slip and become loose in the hoop. Over the …
Several years ago, I started stitching pet portraits on hats and found them to be a bit challenging because the fabric is not flat like a normal piece of fabric. …