Creative Machine Stitching: A Must Try!

If your sewing machine isn’t equipped to do decorative machine stitching, then it really won’t matter how many sewing magazines you read to learn tips and tricks. You can keep a file of all these ideas, and dream of one day being able to embellish your linens with beautiful and creative machine stitching, yet if you can’t afford one of the more complex machines, then you may be discouraged about ever managing to create these projects.

You may own a sewing machine that’s fairly ordinary and rather simple; one that perhaps has been programmed with a few basic creative stitching patterns, but nothing much more than that. It’s never going to produce the effects you really want. Or is it? A book published in 2003 may magically turn your ordinary machine into the virtual equivalent of a more complicated embroidery machine. At least, that’s the claim that’s been made for “Creative Machine Stitching,” written by Patricia Nelson, and a few www.amazon.com reviews from people who have used the book seem to support the claim.

The idea that appears to be behind “Creative Machine Stitching” is fascinating, being that you can create stitches that look very elaborate and complicated, without having a programmed machine to rely on. Instead, according to Nelson, you can create fine art stitching by using different thicknesses and types of threads, different needles and fabrics, and controlling the movements of the machine to create effects it hasn’t in fact been programmed to make. Nelson gives such precise directions, even about bobbin and machine tension, using the presser foot, and so on, that some Amazon reviewers think that a beginner really can’t go wrong.

In a way, “Creative Machine Stitching” is an answer to the idea that using a machine reduces the creativity involved in these fabric crafts. This may still be true for the machines that run programs in which the sewer hardly needs to do more than watch. But Nelson’s book allows you to use a less elaborate machine and inject your own skill and creativity to make pieces that are as decorative as anything produced by other machines. This means that you don’t have to feel limited by the absence of a really complex machine.

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