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A screen-capture view shows heart-shaped ITH designs alongside a written color-stop instruction sheet.
A finished fringe-flower heart brooch pinned on a sweatshirt, showing the 3D fringe texture and clean ITH outline.
Hatch 2.0 screen capture showing multiple outline segments being consolidated into a single Redwork object in the sequence view.
A close-up of changing to a 90/14 needle right before stitching metallic “Ho Ho Ho” on the Brother Luminaire.
A close-up screen capture shows a small star-shaped locking stitch pattern being digitized at the start point to prevent unraveling.
The Solaris Vision projector casts the quilting design box onto black fabric inside a large magnetic hoop for precise edge-to-edge alignment.
A bulky white spa robe is suspended and supported beside the embroidery machine so the hoop can move freely without fabric drag.
The finished “Noche Latina” yarn-couched embroidery on a white garment, showing the raised chenille-like texture and clean edges.
The Pfaff creative icon 2 is actively scanning a hooped fabric area while the hoop moves under the built-in camera for precise design placement.
The finished multi-piece Thyroid Cancer Awareness Ribbon set is fully stitched in the hoop on white wash-away stabilizer, ready for trimming and removal.
A Singer Futura stitches a pink flower inside a hoop on brown fabric, showing the machine running in embroidery mode.
A stylus drags a highlighted cat design across the Baby Lock embroidery machine screen to position it on a panel layout.
A cleanly cut red appliqué piece is lifted off a ScanNCut low-tack mat with a spatula tool after a precise cut.
A household steam iron is pressed firmly onto a structured cap front mounted on a cap framing device to soften buckram and flatten the center seam hump.
An overhead view of a Durkee Sticky Hoop with No-Show Mesh stabilizer neatly folded and secured all around the metal frame using multiple Supa Clips.
Lauren sits in her embroidery studio with a multi-needle machine and thread racks behind her, setting the scene for a real-world cost and profit breakdown.
A close-up shows a finger tracing the raised texture of couched yarn stitches on the Deer embroidery sample.
A close-up shows the proven trick of balancing a screw on the short end of an Allen key to reach the stand’s hardest corner fastener.
A close-up shows the metal finger gap tool inserted between the retaining finger and the rotary hook basket on a Melco EMT16X.
A close-up of a smartphone photographing the Brother Luminaire XP3 screen so the full embroidery color list can be referenced at the thread rack.
A bold slide introduces the “Focused Flood of Income” concept as the antidote to scattered, low-profit embroidery work.
CanvasWorkspace screen capture highlighting the critical Flip Horizontal action used to mirror appliqué shapes for fusible-web cutting.
A close-up shows metallic thread being manually guided through the needle eye—an essential habit for preventing breakage and protecting the automatic threader.
A finished raised 3D letter “G” stitched in green on a purple fuzzy sock, still held securely inside a small magnetic hoop.
A wall display of Durkee embroidery hoops in multiple sizes, photographed on the trade show floor.
A finished sparkly red Christmas stocking with a white monogram hangs neatly, showing the clean cuff and professional shape.
A DesignShop v11 screen capture showing a constrained straight preview line used to digitize clean, minimal-point walk stitches.
The Ricoma 10S panel rotate tool is used to flip a monogram design 180 degrees so it stitches right-side up on a hooped towel.