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Hello from Nicole and Jacques! Thank you for checking out our story and taking a few minutes to read this. As you may know, I design all the embroidery patterns on Tattered Stitch myself, and I put a lot of heart and effort into both my designs and my company. But why did I decide to leave a successful graphic design career and start my own business? Well, there are a lot of great reasons, but the main one is Family! Jacques and I met just after of college, had our first date and hav …

There are so many projects we have thought to do with our sassy little Sugar Skull. We have thought about putting onto a denim jacket, the pocket of jeans or on a t-shirt. They would all be perfectly good places to embroider this little gem. But we decided that our pet Daisy needed a little bit of wardrobe for herself. So we made her a pink bandanna that shows off the Sugar Skull!Here Are The Items That You Will Need...Sugar Skull embroidery patternFat quarter squared offMedium weight cut away s …

I have a girlfriend who's birthday is just 12 days after mine...We love to exchange fun kitchey types of gifts for one another. This year she gave me some beautiful salad tongs with pretty little metal pineapple's on top. So this got me thinking on some of the fun summer get together’s we've had in the past, and the got me contemplating about what kind of gift I would give to her for her birthday. Beautiful embroidered place mats came to mind for those backyard barbecues. They will lend a little …

A headband slider is a very simple yet amazingly cute way of customizing that hair retaining device we've all come to know and love!In it's purest form, a headband slider is simply a crafty attachment that literally slides on to your headband, along with enough friction to help keep it in place.In the following tutorial we are expanding that definition by including that wonderful craft we all have grown a passion for... embroidery! For this example, we are going to use a machine embroidered desi …

Hand embroidery today is more popular than ever! With the ability to download a digital file of a pattern, you can print it out and then start stitching in no time at all! This only makes creative hand projects such as ours that much more easy and fun!For some though, the idea of transferring an embroidered pattern might seem a bit problematic or difficult. Thankfully there are a number of easy techniques listed below that work quite well, and don’t require any elaborate tools on your part.CHOIC …