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Machine Embroidery 101

Complete Guide to Downloading, Stabilizing, Hooping, and Stitching
Joi Mahon
$24.99 USD
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Product Type: Paperback / softback

Description

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Once a luxury for sewing enthusiasts, embroidery machines have become the norm in the home sewing industry. They’re the next step in the sewing journey once the basics are mastered and even non-sewers can learn to embellish readymade objects from towels to T-shirts with an embroidery-capable sewing machine. Like magic, users can download a digitized design in minutes from the thousands of affordable motifs online or even learn to create their own to stitch out. Joi Mahon’s Perfect Guide covers them all.  From selecting designs for different fabrics, hooping and stabilizing, downloading and transferring, thread and needle choices, alignment, and even embroidery on pre-made or hard to handle items, this handy guide will be every machine user’s go-to, easy-to follow manual offering crucial information at their fingertips every time they start a project.Inside you'll find:• Overview of Sewing Machines with Embroidery Capabilities• Guidance for Downloading and Transferring Designs• Top Threads, Bobbin, and Needle Choices• Stabilizers, Toppers, and Hooping Overviews• How Successfully Machine Embroider a Variety of Fabrics• Design Placement and Alignment• Tips for Embroidering on Pre-made Items• Troubleshooting

Details

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Pages 104
Publish Date 2026-09-22
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Size 7.0" x 9.0" x 0.0"
Author Joi Mahon
Product Form Paperback / softback

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About the Author

Joi Mahon is the founder of Dress Forms Design Studio, LLC, owner of The Sewing Factory Design Studio, an award-winning designer, an expert in fit, and a fashion entrepreneur with a wide array of sewing interests and endeavors. She is a McCall Licensed Pattern Designer, Craftsy instructor, and creator of Designer Joi's Perfect Pattern and Fit Club, a private membership program on Facebook. She is also a brand ambassador for Bernina Sewing Machines & Mettler Thread, and the founding instructor for the 2021 Nancy's Notions Wardrobe Builder Fashion Sewing Program on YouTube. Joi is deeply involved in the industry and attends several trade shows each year with her specialty being fitting solutions. With a passion to convey real sewing and fitting solutions, Joi teaches what really works for the individual body based on her real-life fitting experiences. Ultimate Illustrated Guide to Sewing Clothes is Joi's third book, with her previous publications being Create the Perfect Fit and Designer Joi's Fashion Sewing Workshop. To learn more about Joi and see her work, visit her website (www.designerjoi.com) or her Facebook (@DesignerJoiMahon).

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