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C&T Publishing is sharing instructions for embellishing paper with stitches, an excerpt from its publication  Unforgettable Invitations by Melissa Collette Giles. According to C&T’s blog, it “includes instructions for machine sewing on paper, hand sewing on paper, hiding the back of your stitches, and…

Karline of Urban Threads alerts us:

Urban Threads has released a fun new freebie to explain your crafty disposition once and for all! This embroidery design utilizes the 19th-century science of phrenology to map the crafty brain, correlating the skull’s unique lumps and…

Here’s something tasty from Urban Threads. Karline says,

Pi Day is March 14, and Urban Threads has released a mathematically marvelous FREE embroidery design to celebrate! “Pi Equals Delicious” will be yummy on creations for math teachers and number-crunching mad scientists of…

The Design Threads feature is back on Urban Threads. UT says,

This is the blog series where we showcase a hot style trend and then show you how to achieve it in your own embroidery. This week’s trend is for the rockers…

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has converted the Arecibo Message into free patterns for hand and machine embroidery. What is this message? One of the most famous messages transmitted as part of SETI: “Hi! We’re intelligent! We’re made of meat! Here’s where we live!”…

The SWAKembroidery.com newsletter says,

Want to know some great tips and techniques for embroidering on towels?…Michelle of Abigail Michelle Designs shares some time-tested tips for how to do this!

Check it out here!

This week’s Urban Threads newsletter says,

Treat yourself to a fun little design on us! This Crafty Like a Fox design will be adorable on project totes, tees and hoodies, and plenty more. Consider it a little “just because” celebration of cleverness and…

This Winter Rose for machine embroidery is a free download from Loralie Designs. Sweet! Get the design.

And many thanks to sewforless.com for pointing out this excellent freebie!

Here’s a great heads-up from SWAKembroidery.com:

If you loved making the peppermint sucker wrappers at Christmastime, you’re sure to love this one just as much!

Easy to make and step by step instructions are included. Great for class parties, grandchildren treats, or…

This little art quilt made me squeal out loud with delight. Gunnel of Gunnel’s Blog transferred a vacation photo to fabric and then used free-motion machine embroidery to bring out the details of the image. What a perfect blend of art/craft and…

This darling rubber-duckie design for filled machine embroidery is free! Produced by Lil Rascals, the 4″ x 4″ design is available from SWAKembroidery.com in eight formats for instant download. While it can’t be used for bulk manufacturing, you can use it…

Karline of Urban Threads sends us this heads-up:

Urban Threads has released a sweet new bird-and-love-letter design, FREE through Valentine’s Day! This pretty Victorian-style design can be downloaded for free in formats for machine embroidery, hand embroidery, and digital stock art, so no…

You might already love the work of Marisa Hopkins, aka Elegant Snobbery and Elegant Bloggery. Her online adventures as a working artist/mom of preschoolers make good coffee-time reading for me every day. And her bright, sweet, clever illustrations not only warm…

Check out this news from Karline at UT:

Urban Threads just released a new free embroidery design that’ll crank up the volume! A little volume knob that goes all the way up to 11 will make a rad addition to messenger bags,…

Leah Day (365 Days of Free Motion Quilting Filler Designs) shows us how to mod an inexpensive darning foot to get 360 degrees of visibility around your needle. She says,

How much visibility you have around your needle will directly effect how…

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