Have you ever had to embroider over a high-contrast, busily printed background material? I certainly have on many occasions. I’ve been called on more than I’d like to admit to provide options to an unhappy customer who has had such done by a previous decorator with no eye for contrast. The poor customer has usually . . . Read More
In December’s Printwear Magazine, I endeavored to help commercial decorators avoid and recover from the most common errors that happen in machine embroidery. In all truth, purely technical disasters are pretty rare. Once in a great while you may break a needle and punch a ragged hole in your garment or fold some part of . . . Read More
In my November article from the always invaluable Printwear Magazine, I tackled one of the most well-known forms of embroidery in the world- Monogramming. Rather than dance around the always popular, but seldom enlightening topic of which letter goes where in these typographical triads, I instead covered customer interactions in general around monogramming, forging on . . . Read More
Those of you who may have wondered why I named my stock design collection ‘The Only Stitch’ will finally have a proper answer. (Provided you didn’t look at the About page over at TOS already…) In the latest installment of ‘Ghost in the Embroidery Machine’ on the wonderful mrxstitch.com, I recently discussed the three most . . . Read More
My latest post is up over at the impeccable Mr. X’s site, and this time I’m talking all about Push Distortion! Ghost in the Embroidery Machine – Distortion in Digitizing Part 2 – Push In the post, I not only cover why your letter ‘I’ gets taller and your letter ‘E’ threatens to crowd over . . . Read More
I originally posted this piece at my blog for Stitches Magazine on Sept. 9th, 2011. It is still the best explanation of my relationship with the tragedy of 9-11, and what it meant for me and my career. If you’d like to read the post in it’s entirety and to learn about how the tragedy . . . Read More
World-class graphic designer and self-styled ‘drawsigner’ Von Glitschka and Lynda.com recently held a challenge in the form of a 21 day set of drawing exercises made to get anyone thinking and working visually and using drawing to foster originality and creativity. The following are my entries for the Draw 21 Days challenge! Unfortunately, the free . . . Read More
My latest post is up over at Mr. X Stitch– this one defining Embroidery Digitizing and giving a peek into my own concepts of what it takes to digitize successfully and to do the best digitizing you can do. In this post, I break digitizing up into the ‘science’, meaning all of the measurements, technical . . . Read More
My latest article for Printwear magazine covers a subject near and dear to my heart, the style of machine embroidery digitizing that I call ‘dimensional digitizing’. In this month’s Printwear, I present a ton of tips for how to use stitch types, stitch angles, texture and layering to achieve depth in your embroidery. For those . . . Read More
More big news on the publishing front! I’ll be writing a new monthly column for the kingpin of contemporary embroidery, Mr X Stitch! It’s entitled Ghost in the (Embroidery) Machine and will have a slightly different flavor than the writing I’ve done for the commercial embroidery industry, but I’m hoping it will prove enlightening for . . . Read More
