Category: Tools and Setup

The tea towel was 28-count linen. The embroidery needle was a size 3 chenille I had fished out of a

Buy a 6-inch hoop. That is the entire answer, and you can stop reading here if you like. But since

I fought loosening fabric for my entire first year. Every twenty minutes the linen went saggy, my stitches went uneven,

In 2019 I bought a 200-piece embroidery kit for $24.99 because it felt like a bargain. The scissors could not

The verdict first, because life is short: buy a good 6-inch wooden hoop now, upgrade to an 8×8 Q-snap when

I cracked my only hoop on a Tuesday night in February, halfway through the border of a sampler, and every