Love Embroidery

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GETTING STARTED

Prepare your sewing machine by attaching a freemotion embroidery (AKA darning) foot. Next, drop the feed dogs – the mechanism that grips and pulls fabric through your sewing machine. Your machine manual should tell you how to do this. This project is stitched without a hoop as a stabiliser has been used to give support to the fabric. Start by stitching using a piece of test fabric and

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