Looking for a Embroidery Board
 

I am new to embroidery and am looking for a board for inspiration. I know that we have a forum on this board but I don't find that helpful. The boards that I found don't seem to be very active - very old activity. Any suggestions - TIA?

Are you looking for machine embroidery or hand embroidery?

Prism - I am looking for machine embroidery. I am a very newbie.

www.cuteembroidery.com is a nice site---active community --questions & answers...and daily freebies. You can join for 6mo. at a time, or just register and participate.
http://www.sewforum.com/ is another to register and enjoy lots of info (questions answered by other members). Forums are seperated for embroidery, digitizing requests of members, quilting, sewing, lots of interesting subjects here. n embroidery section with lots of freebies as well as the free digitizing or pay digi'ing.

Look for a Yahoo group with your particular machine ir brand of machine.

sewforum does have a lot of machine embroidery. Facebook has groups too.
sandy

I'm glad you asked this question. I've been wanting to know the same thing.

Are you looking for sites that provide free designs or a discussion group?

Cute Embroidery and Sew Forum are wonderful. There is also a thread here on the QB with 288 pages to look through http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...un-t32969.html

I have recently started adding embroidery to my quilt projects, hand embroidery and found some amazing books with delightful designs to use. While I know that machine embroidery is all the rage at the present I sometimes get irritated when the emphasis is placed on using a machine as opposed to using our hands. Guess I'm getting old and grouchy. Hope you find fellow embroidery folks, which I'm sure you will. Until then I will still do my hand work. A recent mug rug swap introduced me to a woman who does the most amazing things with needle and thread that I've ever seen. Plus she does it without a pattern! Give me fabric, needle and thread and I can rule my world.

This is a great site for instructions and all the help you could ever need. It is like having another family and not too expensive.
www.artisticthreadworks.com

Emblibrary.com has lots of inspiration on their projects page. And they have monthly free designs.
Laurel

Martha Pullen also has a forum that has an embroidery link.

Try checking out Mary Corbit's Needle 'n Thread as she has everything for hand embroidery, lots of instructions, info, etc. and there might be something like this board somewhere on her site for embroidery. She does amazing work. Good luck.

After reading your post again I wasn't sure if you meant hand or machine embroidery. If it's hand embroidery then the above site might help.

I looked at sewforum.com but didn't see much action there; the last message I could find was from August. I will also take a look at cuteembroidery.com. I too have been looking for a board for years although I'm a member of several Yahoo groups for my machine. It would be lovely to find another active board like this one to share ups and downs with machines and software. Thank you to Nancy for starting this thread and to Mermaid and others for posting links.
MagaQuilter

I saw the some thing, but once you register you will see recent posts. ��

Absolutely! as I know I have posted or answered a question in the last 2 or 3 days. You are just not allowed to view contents unless you are registered and logged in. It is the best site--or very nearly so! Info on anything you can think of. Knitting, crocheting, hand & machine emb, quilting, crafts, selling digitizing--the list of subjects is whatever you seek.

Re: Sewforum You need to register (free) to see current posts, and it is an active forum. One category is free embroidery designs that the members contribute for other members to use. There's a lot of free designs available there.

Mary's site is wonderful... she has tutorials on lots of stitches and many patterns too. This is for hand embroidery

Thank you to all that responded. Yes, this is a wonderful board! I have found lots of information because of you ladies even about hand work which I have started to enjoy after retiring. I have the time and patience for it now!!