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Sewing tools designed and manufactured by us in Yorkshire. Tools to make sewing more simple and inspire your creativity.

13/07/2026

🎟️ WIN tickets to the Festival of Quilts 2026! 🎟️
Festival of Quilts

4 winners will EACH win a pair of tickets to the NEC Birmingham, 30 July–2 August. Come and say hello at Stand F37 too! ✨

To enter 👇
✅ Share this post (Stories on Instagram / a normal share on Facebook)
✅ Comment which day you'd like to go
⭐ Bonus entry: tag who you'd take with you!

4 winners picked at random on Friday (17th July)

Good luck! 💚

21/06/2026

Hi everyone 👋 Emily here.

I just wanted to come on here today to mention my Dad since today is fathers day.

He is the reason Emi B Designs is still running while I'm on maternity leave. He manufactures every single order and gets them posted. Without him I wouldn't have been able to keep running! So thank you Dad.

I'm sure he will have something to say about his photo 😂

So if you have ordered from me since later October 2025 it's my Dad Graham who's made and sent it!

Show him some love in the comments! 🥰

P.s Happy fathers day to all the dads/dad figures out there today and thinking of those who may find today difficult. Sending love 🫶

19/06/2026

It's official — we're exhibiting at the Festival of Quilts! 🧵✨
Come and see our 3D-printed sewing tools in person at Stand F37 — clamp zip jig, the Boxy Bag Tool, Rivet Ruler, acrylic rulers and loads more. Have a browse, pick up your favourites, and say hello! 💛
📍 The NEC, Birmingham
📅 30 July – 2 August 2026 (Thurs–Sun)
🎟️ Save on your tickets with code EMIBDESIGNS
Whether you're deep into bag making or just love a wander round a craft show, we'd love to see you there.
🛒 Can't make it? Shop everything at emibdesigns.co.uk (link in bio)

17/06/2026

Fabric shift inside a Brother 4x4 hoop adds up to misaligned stitches across every single sock 🧦

That tiny bit of slack is what throws designs off centre, especially on small tubular items like socks and sleeves where there's barely any room to work with.

Our Sock Embroidery Hoop Insert is designed to fix exactly that. The 3D-printed insert drops right into your Brother 4x4 hoop frame and holds the fabric flat, centred, and under consistent tension. Cleaner stitch registration, run after run.

We make it in both adult and kids sizes, so whether you're personalising school socks or stitching up a gift for a grown-up, you've got the right fit for the project.

You can find it (along with our full range of specialty templates and sewing accessories) over at emibdesigns.co.uk 🧵

12/06/2026

We are getting some things booked in ready for Emily's return to work in a few months time.

She would absolutely love to visit your sewing/embroidery groups and bring a pop up shop of Emi B tools and demo them for you!

Please get in touch to book as she won't be working full time so time is more precious!!

12/06/2026

Most sewers reach for one size of acrylic template and call it done. But your nesting hexagon set is quietly capable of so much more ✨

Once you start playing with the full range of sizes together, projects open up in really fun ways. Here are three of our favorite tricks to try this week.

Mix different sizes in a single block. Pairing a large hex with smaller ones around it adds instant visual interest and breaks up the predictable repeat that hexie quilts can fall into.

Use the clear acrylic to fussy-cut applique motifs. Lay the template right over your favorite print, line up the design exactly where you want it, and trace. Perfect placement every time.

Stack, trace, and batch-cut whole quilt blocks in minutes. This is the one that saves real time on bigger projects. Layer your fabric, work through one size at a time, and watch your block pile grow 🧵

The shapes are designed to work together. Once you start combining them, your quilts get a whole lot more interesting.

10/06/2026

Puckered stitches and shifting fabric are what make sock embroidery feel impossible the first time round. If you've abandoned a pair halfway through, you're definitely not alone.

The Brother 4x4 sock hoop insert is what finally made it click for us. ✨

The setup really does come down to three small steps: place the insert, position the sock, check the tension. That's it. No fighting with the fabric, no second-guessing whether it'll hold.

Swipe through for the full walk-through, and keep this one saved for when you're ready to stitch your first pair. 🧵

08/06/2026

Cutting circles freehand always ends the same way. Wobbly edges, mismatched sizes, and a growing pile of fabric scraps you can't quite use for anything.

We've all been there. You eyeball it, you trace around a mug, you hold your breath through the cut, and the curve still comes out a little lopsided.

Nesting circle templates fix that in one pass. Clear acrylic so you can see your fabric underneath, graduated sizes that stack inside each other, and edges that give you the same perfect curve every single time. ✂

Think appliqué dots, quilt blocks, bunting accents, bag bases, ornament backs. Because the sizes nest together, you can scale up or down for a project without digging through your tool drawer for another template.

There's just something so satisfying about a stack of fabric circles that actually match. 🤍 What would you make first?

05/06/2026

Ever cut a stack of patchwork squares, lined them up, and realized half of them are just slightly off? 🙈

It's such a small thing in the moment. A whisker here, a hair there. But once you start piecing them together, those tiny wobbles add up fast and suddenly nothing lines up the way it should. Cue the seam ripper.

This is where a little 2-inch square acrylic ruler really earns its keep. Rigid so it doesn't flex, crystal-clear so you can see exactly where your cut lines fall, and just the right size to sit flat on your cutting mat while you trim square after square with confidence. ✨

It's the kind of tool that makes summer quilting marathons and bunting projects feel a whole lot less fiddly. When every square is truly square, everything else comes together beautifully. 🧵

03/06/2026

A magnetic snap punched just 2mm off-centre on a 1-inch strap puts all the pull force on one side. The fabric tears from that side first, often before the bag has even had its first proper outing. 😬

It's almost always one of three quiet placement errors weakening bag straps:

Off-centre single snaps
Uneven spacing on double rivets
Using a 1-inch ruler on a 1.5-inch strap

That last one is the sneakiest. Eyeballing the centre of a wider strap with a narrower ruler shifts every mark, and the hardware ends up sitting wonky no matter how careful you were at the sewing machine.

Our hardware ruler with guide holes centres each mark in one step. 0.5-inch spacing for 1-inch straps, 0.75-inch for 1.5-inch straps, no maths and no guesswork. 🧵

Which one of these three has caught you out before? Be honest, we've all done at least one of them.

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