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Embroidery Busienss Cover from Printwear by Erich Campbell featuring Metallic Specialty Thread Machine Embroidery

Article – Get Creative: Specialty Threads in Machine Embroidery

If you’ve ever wondered what sort of new and interesting effects you could achieve in your machine embroidery with the use of specialty threads, my article in the recent Printwear Magazine is for you. In Get Creative: Enhance your Embroidery with Specialty Thread, I discuss different categories of specialty threads and break down specific types . . . Read More

29 May 2015
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Ginger Ninja Concept Closeup

Navigating Novelty – A primer for logo embroidery on loud prints

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

28 Apr 2015
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When Disaster Strikes – Avoid Machine Embroidery Problems with Proper Communication and Technical Execution – Printwear December

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

20 Feb 2015
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Get Creative – Stretch the Traditional Monogram’s Boundaries – in the November Printwear Magazine

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

01 Nov 2014
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Ghost in the Embroidery Machine -Stitch Types in Embroidery Digitizing : The Only Stitch

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

27 Oct 2014
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Fabric Swatches for Testing Embroidery

via mrxstitch.com – Ghost in the Embroidery Machine – Distortion in Digitizing Part 2 – Push

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

03 Oct 2014
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FDNY Applique Angled

In Continued Memory of Heroes

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

11 Sep 2014
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Erich on the Draw 21 Days challenge from Von Glitschka and Lynda.com

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

01 Sep 2014
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Measuring Files to Learn about Embroidery Digitizing- Wolf Face

via mrxstitch.com – Ghost in the Embroidery Machine – Embroidery Digitizing: The Science and the Art

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

30 Jun 2014
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Dimensional Digitizing - 3 Guidelines for Stand-out Embroidery

Dimensional Digitizing for Printwear Magazine

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

30 Jun 2014
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