'It's the book I wish came with my first machine.' Machine embroidery is so much more than just loading a design into your machine and stitching it out on whatever is under the needle. Just like a recipe for baking cookies, we have ingredients, equipment, and instructions to follow. What ingredients we select - design, fabric, threads - affects other choices such as hooping methods, stabilizers, and needles. In this comprehensive book, Lindee Goodall, founder and former owner of Cactus Punch, the first independent company to design embroidery specifically for the home market, gives you everything you need to know to produce quality embroidery no matter how small and basic or large and fancy your machine. Whether you're brand new to machine embroidery or an old hand, you're sure to find useful tips and tricks you can apply immediately! Included in the book are lots of links to additional online resources. You'll also find a set of designs for experimenting with different threads and techniques as well as checking your thread tensions. Use the handy Design Evaluation form to track your own projects and build your own reference library. Machine embroidery can be fun - and it's even more fun when you know how to get predictably good results time after time! Nothing is more frustrating than spending a lot of time and care on a project and not having it turn out. This book represents nearly a quarter of a century of experience from Lindee, so you can jump-start yours. Foreword by Deborah Jones
Author Biography:
Lindee Goodall is the founder and former owner of Cactus Punch, the first independent company to design embroidery specifically for the home market. Combining a degree in art, a lifelong love of sewing and crafts, and a background in programming, Lindee melds the art with the science of creating a smooth running and creative design. With 24 years of digitizing experience, she now owns and operates Lindee G Embroidery, providing quality embroidery designs and educational products. Lindee was an Impressions Magazine 1997 Digitizer of Distinction and won first place for Creative Use of Stock Designs as well as the overall Creativity Award in the 2002 Stitches Magazine Stitch-Off. She also won first place at METS in 1997 for best original digitized design. She is the author of Anatomy of a Design: How to Think Like a Digitizer & Become a Better Embroiderer, the Learn to Digitize Series, and was a contributor to Embroidery Machine Essentials by Jeanine Twigg. Lindee has given workshops and seminars on digitizing, embroidery techniques, and how to make money with embroidery. She has taught at numerous venues including: ISS Shows, Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Creative Embroidery Conference, Houston Quilt Market, Viking, Pfaff, Singer, and Baby Lock Conventions, brother Back to School, Sewing & Stitchery Expo, Martha's School of Art and Fashion, Sydney Arts and Crafts Show, and Echidna Convention. Lindee has been a frequent guest on Martha's Sewing Room, America Sews, America Quilts, Quilting from the Heartland, and Quilting with Shar. She is also a Craftsy instructor with two classes in the embroidery category. She has written numerous articles on digitizing and embroidery techniques for Stitches Magazine, Profitable Embroiderer, Threads, Sew News, Creative Machine Emboidery, and Designs in Machine Embroidery.
