Embroidery

Embroidery Is Good

Posted on December 12, 2009. Filed under: Embroidery, Fashion, Sewing |

I confess: I have an embroidery machine that I don’t use as much as I used to. I have had terrible luck with getting my very expensive digitizing software to do my bidding. It is no good at doing fabric content labels and Custom Couture name labels because it can’t seem to [...]

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Stitchery at Ravelry

Posted on October 17, 2007. Filed under: Blogging, Business, Embroidery, Fashion, Machine Knitting, Sewing, Working |

Ooooh, I didn’t expect to receive my invite so soon, last I looked there were 5000 people in front of me but
The Stitchery is now Stitchery at Ravelry.
And I’m leaving town today so I won’t have time to play over there with the yarn and fiber friends.
Oh well, since I’m also [...]

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The Real Stitchery

Posted on May 16, 2007. Filed under: Business, Embroidery, Machine Knitting, Sewing, Working |

Today I want to let those new to my blog know that The Stitchery is a little old house that is soley dedicated to sewing, knitting and commercial embroidery. It is located about 20 minutes from my home and I go there every day that I can to sew, run the payroll and other [...]

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Vogue 2894 and Backwards

Posted on March 25, 2007. Filed under: Embroidery, Fashion, Sewing |

I just completed the skirt from from this pattern.

Notice the dip in the hemline? My skirt dipped the same way.

I got very confused trying to sew up this pattern.
Maybe it wasn’t the instructions, just me and my current state of mind, but I had to put the pockets in 4 times and [...]

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Malden Mills Now Polartec LLC

Posted on February 22, 2007. Filed under: Business, Embroidery, Sewing |

Officials with Chrysalis, the parent company of the new owners, Pipeline MMI LLC, say they plan to operate, not liquidate, the company. The company will operate under the name of Polartec LLC although Pipeline will own the name, Malden Mills and “use it where appropriate”.
Malden Mills, a 101 year old firm, manufactures knitted polyester [...]

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A Bit of Commercial Embroidery

Posted on November 5, 2006. Filed under: Business, Embroidery, Working |

There’s been some talk on sewing boards lately about folks wanting to buy a commercial embroidery machine. I’ll share what I did yesterday, for most of the afternoon.

It reads, “Casa Di Mir”, a school’s name. This stitchout is 1 9/16″, or 4 cm, wide by 1/4″, or 7 mm high. It is [...]

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