Go from plain to personalized with embroidery from Pickle Pie! If you are just getting started with your embroidery machine, this book offers the know-how you need to embroider like a pro and create endless embroidery style. Inside, you'll find detailed step-by-step instructions along with essential information about stabilizer, thread, fabric, hooping, and more. You'll learn how to create fashionable appliqués and custom monograms, as well as amazing in-the-hoop embroidery projects that take full advantage of today's embroidery machine capabilities. Plus, you can get creative with the included DVD of 25 must-have embroidery designs, including three in-the-hoop projects and a complete alphabet. All this, topped off with expert advice from author Lisa Archer, makes stitching professional-quality embroidery as easy as (pickle) pie!