Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs [Paperback]

Twigg Jeanine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2001

Frustrated by the lack of information in your embroidery machine's instruction manual? This book will help you learn how to use your embroidery machine to its fullest potential. From choosing threads to knowing which stabilizer to pair with your fabric, you will find helpful tips and techniques for producing creative designs. Learn to successfully hoop and stitch designs and put these skills to use creating simple projects. This title includes a free CD featuring six exclusive embroidery designs digitized by award-winning Lindee Goodall, owner of Cactus Punch.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A comprehensive guide, and inspirational showcase..." -- Vogue Patterns, October 2001. "An inspirational showcase with helpful troubleshooting section..." -- Sewing with Butterick, Winter 2001. "A comprehensive guide. an inspirational showcase..." -- Vogue Patterns, June 2002 and again in December, 2002. "An inspirational showcase with helpful trouble shooting section" - Sewing with Butterick, Summer 2002 and again in Winter 2002.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873419995
• ISBN-13: 978-0873419994
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeanine Twigg is also the author of It's a Snap! Secrets for Successful Snapping. She has written articles for various industry magazines such as Sew News and Creative Machine Embroidery.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

88 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Bible" for beginners!, July 20, 2003

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L. Richardson "MadMumbler" (SW Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs (Paperback)

I work in a store and teach embroidery & digitizing, this is absolutely THE BEST primer for people just starting out in machine embroidery, and it's a great reference manual for everyone else. It is not machine-specific, so no matter what you've got, you will find information in here to help you out. This is THE book I always recommend to newbies!

80 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only manual needed for an embroidery machine, October 20, 2002

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L. Wimer (North Dakota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs (Paperback)

I was new to machine embroidery and I happened to see this particular book lying on the store owners sewing desk. I browsed through it and was immediately hooked! I had to have my own copy. It has everything you could possibly need to know about machine embroidery. I never did go back and do the classes for my machine...it was all in this book and then some!
The extra CD was a nice touch to the lessons!

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend, February 1, 2002

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"nobeau2" (Waldo, ME United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs (Paperback)

This is a great book for a beginner, as I am, in machine embroidery to start building their library of machine embroidery books on. It provides good concise information for starting this craft in easy understandable terms. It covers a wide variety of the subjects that one needs to know in order to start producing embroidered products. It provides many helpful hints, good pictures, a variety of projects, and a resource section, not to mention the free design CD. It is one of the few books I have bought that delivers what it promises and at a very reasonable price. I have found something useful on just about every page. I highly recommend it.