Do you love your embroidery machine? Of course you do! Have you ever wondered what else that talented piece of equipment can do? Yes? Then this course is for you! Explore how easily your embroidery machine can become your best sewing room helper, tackling those sometimes aggravating and stressful tasks like zippers, buttonholes and pockets. Find out just how quickly you can accomplish complicated projects like paper-piecing and stippling – right in the hoop, and see for yourself how easy it is to create original and unique projects that pop right on up out of that hoop!
Simple sewing tasks can sometimes seem daunting, but they don’t need to be because you have an embroidery machine waiting to help you! Let Evy show you how to create simple designs with basic digitizing software to make buttonholes, pockets and zipper placements. Explore some onboard tools your machine may have that will allow you to create the same techniques on your machine, no software involved!
Who doesn’t love a nice quilt, especially a beautifully pieced and stippled quilt, but oh my, what if your time is limited to hours not days for the making of it? Let your embroidery machine do it for you! I’ll show you how to digitize a quick paper-pieced block with basic digitizing software to get you started. Then we will explore how to add stippling – even character stippling – to be added right in the hoop. Next you’ll check out how easy it is to create all-over stipple patterns either with digitizing software or with onboard tools your machine may have. Evy will show you her favorite tools, supplies and lots of tips and tricks to create beautiful quilted projects. It’s so easy and so fast!
If you’ve ever wanted to put embroidery on things you can’t possibly get in the hoop but were uncertain about how to go manage that, join Evy as she shows you how much fun that really is! Explore substrates, glues and fabrics, stitching techniques and tools. What about 3D embroidery even if you don’t have 3D designs? See your design stash in a whole new light as Evy checks out embellishments that pop up off the fabric and also projects that pop right out of the hoop!
Your embroidery machine will not only save you buckets of time and reduce your stress level; it will make sewing more fun than ever! Embroidery designs are included with the class so you can follow along right in your own sewing room, making pretties with Evy as you explore all the wonderful possibilities of the embroidery machine!
All Start Anytime courses, are self-paced, and you can begin the moment you register, viewing the course anytime that is convenient for you. Many students watch it through one time first, and then go back to work alongside the instructor with their own project activities.
Evy Hawkins delights in creating original and unusual designs, projects, patterns and tutorials for the wonderful world of stitching! She has had her fingers in the sewing trade since high school and began her sewing career as a couturiere. A firm believer in the craft of embroidery, she delights in inventing new ways to use her embroidery machine.
Known for her work on Baby Lock’s Sashiko, she is happy to be spokesperson for that very clever machine. Her articles have been featured in Classic Sewing, Belle Amoire, Creative Machine Embroidery, Designs in Machine Embroidery, FlairUK, Sew Beautiful, Sew News, Threads and Stitch publications.
Evy has appeared on Martha Pullen TV, taught at the Martha Pullen Art Fashion Schools, and on Sew At Home Classes with Baby Lock. Currently, Evy travels and teaches at dealer and vendor events in the USA.
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