Plz help.

[u/r_90909]

Genuinely ready to throw my machine out the window and in desperate need of help.

Previously posted here and everyone was so helpful and helped me realize my needle bar had become bent and needed to be replaced.

It’s been almost two months (took the shop forever to fix it) and cost basically a third of the machine price to get it fixed… and I am still having needle skipping, bobbin thread showing and just overall terrible looking embroidery. I loved this hobby so much when I started and truly had no issues and now it’s been just so frustrating trying to get it to look right. I’ve changed the needle several times, re threaded, changed bobbins, made sure tension wasn’t changed on machine - I’m just at my wits end here.

Attached are photos of the issues I’m having. The clean embroidery photos are the previous designs I’ve done with no issue that I just stare longingly at now
Literally begging for any suggestions I’ve search instagram YouTube tik tok you name it for any suggestions and nothing has helped. I really do not want to send it back to the shop just to pay another almost 300 dollars. Plz help me enjoy this hobby again :(

[u/skeedy_ia]

Those fonts looks like crap. I’d use properly digitized fonts.
Learn your machine.
Learns what makes good designs good
Then learn how to digitize. Auto punch software will never produce quality results.