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Taking the guesswork out of using a home embroidery machine, this book covers the entire embroidery process from choosing designs, threads, stabilizers and needles to hooping, design placement and stitching techniques. Simple projects are made easy with step-by-step instructions, allowing readers to experiment with their new skills and embroidery techniques. A handy troubleshooting section helps solve problems along the way. Includes a bonus CD featuring 6 exclusive embroidery designs digitized by award-winning Lindee Goodall, owner of Cactus Punch®.

- Includes a free CD with 6 exclusive designs—a $35 value!
- Tips and techniques for stitching decorative designs onto purchased or sewn items
- An inspiring gallery of project ideas

Average Customer Rating:

Worth it!	Customer Rating:
Great for beginners in machine embroidery. Has all the basic info to get started and some great project ideas as well. Good reference guide for use of stabilizers. It's worth it!

Very Good For The Basics

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I am a new machine embroiderer. I needed a book for learning the basics and for immediate reference. There is so much more to machine embroidery than it would appear on the surface. Needles, threads, stabilizers, hooping; there are just dozens of questions. This book answered most of my questions. (The internet is also a good place for this info, but I like to have a book by my side if possible.) Stabilizers are one very important area. If your stabilizer is wrong for your fabric, the design will not stitch out well. This book has a detailed explanation of each type of stabilizer and what to use it for. How to hoop is explained and shown in a series of step by step drawings. So are different techniques. This book came with a CD-ROM with six designs that are featured in the book. This is a very good book for beginners like myself. I have already used it for reference when working on a project. It was well worth the money.

Very Useful Indeed!

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I have been sewing for years and years and bought a top of the line sewing/embroidery machine combo one year ago. I just purchased this book and even though I had been doing lots of embroidery successfully, I think there is quite alot of useful information and techniques which will help me on future projects. I just bought another copy of this book as a gift for a friend who just got the same machine I have. I KNOW she will find it incredibly useful. Sometimes the instruction manuals that come with a machine just don't cover enough detail and this book certainly fills that in.

Interesting Book	Customer Rating:
I have just bought an embroidery machine and so am a complete novice in this area. I have found the book clear, well illustrated and simple to use. It has been invaluable helping me in my first steps of machine embroidery. The results are outstanding and the projects easy to follow.

Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop, and Stitch Decoratine Designs	Customer Rating:
I was very helpful to me. I'm just a beginner with a newer machine. I could not relate to some of the information. But it did help me with the basics.