If you've ever seen a real high-quality sit-down sewing machine, you know it's a thing of beauty. If you're lucky, you might even find one under (or next to) the Christmas tree this year. But even if you don't get your Christmas wish, it would still be nice…
Christmas sweaters have long held the well-deserved reputation for being conspicuously over the top. Rather than rejecting Christmas sweaters, we have embraced the ostentatiously exaggerated holiday spirit they express. Today, crafting Christmas sweater extremes have become something of a holiday hobby. Like decking out the yard in crazy…
For thousands of years, artists have embroidered items to add glory and reverence. Even early works of embroidery involved intricate, detailed stitches -- every one done by hand -- to elevate revered items to their appropriate status. Today, we have elegant machines to do the fine stitching for…
