Making Machine Embroidered Cards

Aug 26, 2020Aug 27, 2020 toomanystitches10 Comments

If you are into machine embroidery and haven’t seen Machine Embroidery Geek’s website, I really recommend taking a look. There’s lot of great resources but definitely my favourite part is where she justifies the cost of buying an embroidery machine with ‘how much you will save on gifts’. Perhaps I am a particularly miserly and uncharitable soul, but this seems like a very weak justification for which the maths does not add up, unless you attach a monetary value to the fun and joy that comes with making gifts on the machine.

May Madness and Machined Cards

Jun 9, 2021Jun 8, 2021 toomanystitches9 Comments

If April is the cruellest month, then May is the month of utter madness when the weekends become extensions of the working week and thriving is renamed surviving… I am tired. Still, it has passed, many totally uncrafty things got done, but a few crafty ones snuck in there as well.

Machine Embroidered Organza Rose

Jan 27, 2021Jan 23, 2021 toomanystitches13 Comments

Machine embroidery isn’t all greetings cards and monogrammed towels. It turns out you can make some rather complex things with it! I’ve been really interested in doing some stumpwork for a while, and made a start on a project, but doing hand embroidery of lots of small fiddly pieces, to go through the heartbreak of cutting them out and risking nipping a few threads is a rough way to learn!

…and now for something completely different

Oct 6, 2021Oct 5, 2021 toomanystitches9 Comments

We’ve seen a lot of things on this blog. Bobbin lace, saori weaving, an infinite number of embroidered cards… but they’ve all had at least one thing in common – thread. It’s true that I enjoy far too many different crafts, and one of the joys of that is finding how they all feed into each other, but today we have something of a first, a craft that involves no thread!

Goodbye 2021!

Dec 29, 2021Dec 28, 2021 toomanystitches8 Comments

It seems fitting that the post to welcome in 2022 will be my 222^nd post! Some good accidental number matching there especially as my posting has been a bit erratic over the last few months. Let’s take a look back over what 2021 had to offer…

Goodbye 2020!

Dec 30, 2020Dec 28, 2020 toomanystitches13 Comments

Traditionally, my first post of the new year is a chance to say welcome to the new year. This year I think I’ll break with traditional slightly and the new year’s post will be a chance to say goodbye to the old one! Well, 2020, what can I say?

Digitising Monograms

Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020 toomanystitches9 Comments

Monograms are incredibly popular motifs with machine embroidery. With the speed of digital embroidery, it’s a quick way to transform a boring generic item into something a bit more special and personal. I absolutely love illuminated letters and fancy lettering too and really think they can easily be a work of art in themselves.

Digitising Sampler

Sep 23, 2020Sep 15, 2020 toomanystitches3 Comments

Machine embroidery is a lot of fun and there’s a huge wealth of designs out there that come both with the machine and are available either for free or a small price. As I did for my previous monogrammed card, these designs can be combined either on the machine itself or using some embroidery design software.

Revisiting Dongdaemun Market

Sep 4, 2019Sep 4, 2019 toomanystitches

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My visit to Dongdaemun Fabric Market in Seoul last year left me with the impression that this was one of the best fabric markets in the world. Having the chance to revisit it this year, I’m pleased to report that it is just as fabulous as ever with plenty to see and do.

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