Machine Embroidery
CategoryLet Nancy Zieman help acclimate you to your Baby Lock or other Embroidery sewing machine. We have many different projects at all skill levels of machine embroidery. Jump in and give machine embroidery a try.
Simple to Chic T-shirt Remakes
The machine embroidery designs you’ll see below not only decorate, but transform an everyday knit shirt into a wow shirt. Eileen Roche, the brainchild of this technique, joins Nancy on Sewing With Nancy to take embroidery to the next level. The second of a 2-part series, Simple to Chic T-shirt Remakes, focuses on in-the-hoop T-shirt … Continue Reading
Machine Embroidery in Six Easy
Six lessons, it’s usually a great start in learning a new skill set—be it dancing, Zumba, or hang gliding! (Anyone hang glide?) That same 6-lesson approach can easily be applied to the creative skill that Sewing With Nancy guest has mastered. Eileen Roche, editor of Designs in Machine Embroidery Magazine, joins Nancy in this week’s online featured … Continue Reading
Machine Embroidery in Six Easy Steps
Machine embroidery could possibly be your passion, or maybe it’s something you’d like to try. If you’re a newbie or want-to-be embroiderer, Eileen Roche, Sewing With Nancy guest and friend, along with Nancy Zieman show you how to learn Machine Embroidery in 6 Easy Lessons on this two-part series. The embroidery process comes down to … Continue Reading
101 Renegade Sewing & Quilting Tips
Team Nancy Zieman is always on the lookout for new tips such as treating a bee sting or prompting a cactus to bloom. When it comes to sewing & quilting tips, the interest level rises to new heights. Over the years we’ve gathered and discovered unconventional tips to use in the sewing room. Some hints … Continue Reading
Machine Embroidery for Coordinated Baby Gifts
Fabric coordinates make it easy to design and sew a quilt with a variety of print sizes and color combos in one collection. The same principle applies to the way Team Nancy Zieman creates embroidery designs—a single motif, a grouping of that same motif—large and small, or an embroidery ideal for a border. Yes, coordinates … Continue Reading
Projects You’ll LOVE to Sew
Love is in the air! It seems most holidays have colors associated with them. Thankfully, the sewing community is a very visual group, so colors are a welcome jumping-off point for many design ideas. This season, we rounded up a few of our favorite RED sewing projects from the blog. Find them all linked below. … Continue Reading
Next Level Quilting with an Embroidery Machine
February is National Embroidery Month! If you own an embroidery machine, most likely you’ve added monograms to towels or a cute design to baby clothes. But, did you ever think that your embroidery machine’s hidden talent was to quilt layers of fabric with remarkable finesse? Welcome back embroidery and quilting expert Eileen Roche, who will … Continue Reading
Quilt With an Embroidery Machine in Eight Easy Steps
The art of quilting often combines techniques. Traditional quilts are frequently appliquéd, then pieced, and finally all the layers are quilted. If you have an embroidery machine, you can streamline the processes with the touch of a button—the brainchild of my guest Eileen Roche. The quilting technique is practically hands free! Watch as Eileen shares the … Continue Reading
NEW! I Sew For Fun: Amazing Designs Cute Key Fobs Collection
Experience machine embroidery with the youth in your life with this NEW! I Sew For Fun Cute Key Fobs Collection by Nancy Zieman. Nancy designed the I Sew For Fun Cute Key Fobs Collection to introduce her granddaughters to machine embroidery. Enjoy the experience of stitching the designs as a team. Choose from 15 cute … Continue Reading
TOP 10 Tutorials of 2017
Tis the season to see our top 10 sewing, quilting, and machine embroidery tutorials from 2017. Not only are these links some of our own personal favorites, they are yours, too. In fact, we used one-year’s worth of data to determine the list. Join the NZP Team as we count down the most popular tutorials … Continue Reading
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