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Before you commit any money to an elaborate sewing machine for doing embroidery, you will always be wise to read as many sewing machines reviews for decorative stitches as you possibly can. These are now much easier to find than they would have been before the proliferation of internet review sites. You can get some [...]

With the upsurge in the popularity and use of embroidery sewing machines, a debate was begun in the creative community that hasn’t yet subsided, and shows no signs of doing so for a long time to come. With embroidery handled by the machine, the big question is whether embroidery done by a machine is just [...]

These days you can add fancy machine stitching to the edges of tablecloths, towels, napkins and many other household items. You can add designs around the cuffs of blouses, or even embroider quite elaborate designs on the shoulders of a shirt. In the past, the only way you could get such designs on your clothing [...]

Sewing your own curtains, linens and even clothes can be very rewarding. Sewing machines have made the process easier than ever before. And even the products you create can now be just as embellished as the items you would buy from a store. The secret is decorative machine stitching. It adds a bit of flair [...]

If you’re starting a quest to find a sewing machine, then you’ll have several options open to you, each with different strengths and capabilities and, often just as important, in different price ranges. There will be certain crucial differences from one creative machine to another, making one only usable for embroidery, for example, while another [...]

Sewing machines with decorative stitches didn’t start out as quite the same things as embroidery machines, although they clearly provided the seeds that grew into those much more elaborate machines. All that was looked for, in the early days of decorative machine stitching, was a way for sewing machines to reproduce a few fairly simple [...]

Machine quilting runs into the same sort of argument that circles through the embroidery community and other artistic groups working in the fabric and thread arts. That question is whether the genuine human creativity and artistry of the quilting process is lost if quilts are sewn by machine rather than by hand. Many traditionalists feel [...]