Whether you’re using machine embroidery, free-hand embroidery, or another method for embellishment, it’s likely you’ll have to work around darts. Modern Irish dance costumes are quite fitted, and darts (or princess seams) are what help us get that precise fit! However, we don’t want to see out beautiful embroidery disappear into a dart or end …
If you haven’t started with Part 1 of this post, please read that first! It discusses a lot of the concepts we’ll use here which may be confusing without the background and details in Part 1. In Part 1, we discussed how to plan your hoopings and create guides to aid in aligning designs over …
Hello! Today I want to talk about digitizing for machine embroidery. Computerized embroidery machines run off files that tell the machine where to move their hoop in order for the design to stitch out correctly. Think of it as a “connect-the-dots” game with 30,000 dots! Embroidery digitizing software provides us, the artists, with an interface …
I hear all the time from sewers who have been enlisted by a friend or relative to build an Irish dance dress and have no idea where to start. They often feel like they don’t know what they’re getting into, and even parents who’ve spent years going to feisanna often have questions (“what’s going on …
Hello! We’ve had some requests to make a tutorial for our tiara and headpiece embroidery files…so here you go! This method could work with free-hand embroidery too, or with any design that you digitize yourself. Supplies: – Fabric for background – anything opaque including gabardine, satin, and velvet. – Dress stiffener or extra-heavy interfacing. We …
