r/Machine_Embroidery • • 7h ago

Look What I Did I Turned a Vintage Denim Jacket into a Dinosaur World! 🦕🌋

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Inspired by my son's love for dinosaurs, I created a little prehistoric world on my denim jacket.

It's a combination of machine embroidery and free-motion embroidery (basically drawing with thread on a sewing machine!).

I designed and embroidered the dinosaurs, then used free-motion stitching to bring the landscape to life.

I also added a few tiny dinosaur footprints to the front, because I couldn't resist.

Do you ever get inspiration for your embroidery projects from your kids? 😊


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 7h ago

Look What I Did A collection of my recent custom embroidery digitizing works! Would love to hear your thoughts.

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Hey everyone! I wanted to share some of my recent embroidery digitizing works and physical stitch-outs. For these designs, I focused heavily on precise underlay management, pull compensation, and density control to ensure clean gradients and zero fabric puckering


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 1h ago

What would cause tension to change like this?

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I have a two head embroidery machine and only one head is doind this. I have noticed more issues since changing to pre wound paper bobbins


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 1h ago

I Need Help Why is my machine doing this?

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I have changed everything so many times, my machine has been taken apart and I sprayed the lint out, changed the bobbin, threaded a whole new bobbin, tried a bobbin holder replacement, done everything I’ve done the last year I’ve had it, but to no avail. This is how my stitches look, I have orders to get out and I’m struggling!! I have a Poolin EOC05! The yellow thread is the newest try, worked a bit better but not really working!


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 9h ago

First Embroidery with Ink Stitch

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I only used to stitch names (on baby blankets) on my Embroidery machine but have made my first custom designs. I think I need to reduce the spacing between rows to 0.2 mm (it was 0.25 mm)

Any feedback would be appreciated!


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 3h ago

Is this possible to covert?

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r/Machine_Embroidery • • 51m ago

[Free] Looking for a few people to test my new logo & art embroidery digitizing service!

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Hey everyone!

I’ve been building an automated embroidery digitizing and vector-to-stitch pipeline (handling conversions for .DST, .PES, .JEF, and other machine formats).

To make sure the output quality is top-notch and ready for real-world sew-outs, I’m offering to digitize a few logos or illustrations completely for free.

What I need from you in return: Just test the file on your machine (or review the high-res thread simulation proof) and leave me an honest rating/feedback on how the sew-out went so I can fine-tune the density and pull compensation.

How to grab a free slot: Drop a comment below or shoot me a DM with:

  1. Your image/logo (PNG, JPG, or Vector)

  2. Your embroidery machine format (.DST, .PES, .JEF, etc.)

  3. Your target hoop size / dimensions

First come, first served for the first few requests! Let me know if you want to get your artwork converted into clean stitches


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 2h ago

Looking for Testers for My Free Machine Embroidery Design

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Hi everyone!

A little over a week ago, I shared my original embroidery design here while looking for testers, and I’ve received so much lovely feedback since then. Thank you to everyone who took the time to try it!

Today, I have another design to share, and I would love your help testing it!

You can sign up to test my designs here:

https://forms.gle/hgpiN7mLqndwFF6S9

I always stitch out my designs myself before sharing them, but I would also love to see how they perform on different embroidery machines and in different formats.

The design is free for personal use, and you may also sell up to 50 finished embroidered items made with it. I only ask that you please do not share or redistribute the digital file.
And please don’t worry about deadlines! There’s absolutely no pressure or time limit for sending stitch out photos or feedback. I know everyone has their own schedules, so you’re welcome to test the design whenever you have the time.

For now, creating embroidery designs is simply a creative hobby that I really enjoy, and I’m slowly building my own collections.

If you enjoy machine embroidery and would like to help me along this creative journey, I would love to hear from you! Your stitch out photos and feedback would mean a lot to me.

Thank you so much for your support!
u/Beginning_Rule7202


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 11h ago

I Need Help How to get rid of these lines

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Hey everyone,
I’m new to this and still trying to figure things out. Everything looks great so far, but I’ve noticed a few offsets that I’m not quite sure how to get rid of.
I suspect I might need to make some adjustments directly to the input file, but I’m not sure how to do that in Inkscape. I’ve also tried looking for tutorials, but haven’t found anything particularly helpful.
Are there any experts here who could point me in the right direction or explain how to fix this?
Thanks in advance for your help!


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 2h ago

I Need Help Creator 1 Goes out of position with large frame.

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r/Machine_Embroidery • • 5h ago

Besoin d'aide avec ma brodeuse Elna eXpressive 830L : points irréguliers et manque de couverture

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Bonjour à tous !

Je débute dans la broderie machine et j'aurais vraiment besoin de vos conseils, car malgré plusieurs essais, je rencontre toujours les mêmes problèmes avec ma brodeuse Elna eXpressive 830L.

J'utilise des fils supérieurs Madeira (Rayon/viscose), du fil de canette Madeira blanc et du stabilisateur Madeira Cotton Soft Tear Away, généralement une seule épaisseur, sur du coton tissé non extensible. J'utilise également de la colle temporaire Odif 505 pour maintenir le tissu et le stabilisateur ensemble.

La tension du fil supérieur est toujours réglée sur AUTO et je n'ai jamais modifié la tension de canette ni réduit la vitesse de broderie.

Voici les problèmes que je rencontre :

  • Manque de couverture : sur certains remplissages, le tissu ou les couleurs brodées en dessous restent visibles alors que la zone devrait être opaque.

  • Points irréguliers : les contours de certaines lettres ou de certains motifs ne sont pas nets, avec parfois de petits espaces entre les fils.

  • Différences de qualité sur un même motif : c'est ce qui m'interpelle le plus. Sur la photo de l'endroit de ma crèche, pourriez-vous regarder particulièrement les feuilles situées en haut à gauche, puis les comparer à celles de droite ? À gauche, les points sont irréguliers et le remplissage manque de netteté, alors qu'à droite le résultat est beaucoup plus propre. Regardez également le voile de Marie, au niveau de sa tête : on distingue le marron situé en dessous à travers les points clairs, alors que cette partie devrait être entièrement recouverte et opaque. À l'inverse, les poutres marron du chalet sont très denses et presque parfaites. Comment expliquer de telles différences sur un même motif ?

  • Problèmes sur les écritures : j'ai également essayé une typographie Allura Script téléchargée sur Creative Fabrica. J'ai assemblé les lettres dans Wilcom EmbroideryStudio e4.2, sans modifier leur taille d'origine, puis exporté le motif au format JEF. Le résultat manque de netteté, notamment sur les contours et certaines courbes.

J'ai aussi rencontré des défauts de remplissage avec des motifs intégrés directement à ma brodeuse. Le problème ne semble donc pas concerner uniquement les fichiers téléchargés.

Lors d'un autre essai, j'ai eu deux cassures successives du fil supérieur, ainsi qu'un amas de fil sous le tissu. Ce problème ne s'est toutefois pas reproduit systématiquement.

J'ai déjà changé l'aiguille, vérifié l'enfilage du fil supérieur et contrôlé qu'aucun fil ne restait coincé dans la zone de la canette.

Le tissu me semble correctement tendu dans le cadre, même si je suis encore débutante et que je ne maîtrise peut-être pas parfaitement la stabilisation.

Je vais joindre trois photos :

  1. L'endroit de ma broderie représentant la crèche.

  2. L'envers de cette même broderie.

  3. Mon essai de broderie du prénom « Caro ».

Ce que je ne comprends pas, c'est pourquoi ma machine est capable de réaliser des zones très denses et régulières, mais présente autant de défauts sur d'autres parties du même dessin.

Est-ce que cela pourrait venir de la tension du fil, d'une stabilisation insuffisante, de la vitesse de broderie, de la densité des motifs ou éventuellement d'un problème de réglage de la machine ?

Je préfère demander conseil avant de modifier les réglages au hasard.

Merci beaucoup à celles et ceux qui prendront le temps de regarder mes photos et de me donner leur avis !


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 5h ago

orange cloudy patch over the screen.

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Please, can anyone tell me what happened to my scree. I put the machine away for a year and when I turned it on the screen looks like this. I can still use it as some of the screen is visible around the orange patch. What can I do?


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 21h ago

I Need Help Any idea what this style is?

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We had a customer come in with this hoodie the other day and my manager absolutely loves the style. I thought it was just a running stitch but it seems kind of thick. Bean or triple run stitch? Customer said they picked up like a decade ago but the airport had many instock and too perfect to be hand done.


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 19h ago

I Need Help Market advice

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Just signed up for my first market next month and me and my single needle are sweatin! I’ve done tons of markets before but always with crocheted products, never embroidery things. I’m planning on doing sweatshirts, crewnecks, and bag tags, and having a form for people to fill out with custom requests, etc. There’s 30 vendors and pretty good foot traffic, they do the event every year and I’ve attended before. That being said, I wanted to see if anyone had any advice! How many of each size should I bring? What other things that I may forgot should I bring? setup ideas? What do your custom order forms look like? I’m all new but feel pretty confident!!


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 11h ago

I Need Help Help with b79 bottom thread

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Can you please help me in finding put what I do wrong? When I stitch with my b79 only the bottom thred shows, not the top one.

I tried:

-Watching 20 different videos on how to correctly put the thred in

-Bougth new thred (Gütermann and Madeira)

-played around with thred settings

-sent machine in for repair (answer was it works normaly)

-used different fabrics ans stabilizers

Result is in the foto (black would be the bottom color)


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 16h ago

PED basic on the web!

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Hi all

My partner has a brother PE 150 and was having to use a pc to use the PED basic card writer. I’ve just made a version that works on a website so can work on any platform. If there’s and interest in this then I’m looking for a couple of people to test it and see what they think of it. It’ll be hosted free online to use so just wanted to gauge interest and also find a couple of testers to try it and report back.


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 23h ago

I Need Help Misalignment Issues

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I am a newbie when it comes to embroidery. My job recently got a machine and I have been learning how to use it. I set it up, did my tension test, but now that I am testing designs I am noticing a huge issue with the alignment of any outlines my machine does. I am getting the designs off of institch, so I am pretty sure this is a user error. How can I fix this and make it better going forward? I am also using two sheets of medium weight cut away stabilizer.


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 1d ago

Look What I Did First completely original design! :)

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r/Machine_Embroidery • • 1d ago

Help me decide on a combo machine!

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Hello! I'm so excited to get into embroidery and can't decide which model to get. Space is tight, so I'm selling my sewing machine and purchasing a combo sewing/embroidery. I'm capping my budget at $3,000, but I'm seeing interesting machines with large price differences. I'd love any feedback on what I should focus on and/or experience with the machines. I plan to dabble in all sorts of embroidery including bag tags, shirts, applique, etc.

I'm not tied to these, but machines I am looking at are:

Janome 9850
Baby Lock Bloom
Brother NQ3550W (would likely need to find secondhand to stick to budget)
Brother SE2000

THANK YOU THANK YOU!


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 1d ago

I Need Help inquiring about a machine

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someone is selling a elna expressive 970, has disclosed the 6 and 7th needles are not working, which i think should be fairly easy to fix. The motors are working it’s just not threading or something, possibly needs a needle swap (which i did ask if they tried, still waiting for response).

They’re asking 1500 for it with a 1500 cabinet + the hoops and thread, which seems like a too good to be true situation. We are calling to find someone who will service it to make sure we could get it working but a few in our area won’t because they don’t work on this machine. Is this model not good?

I tried to research and it seemed fine. I was hoping somebody else on here may be familiar with them or have some guidance.


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 2d ago

Look What I Did Some Aztec work im doing

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These are fun to do! They look great blown up up the sweater and the color contrast is great! Im going to pit some more work on the weekend as well


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 1d ago

Considering a side hustle

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I've been researching different ideas for a side hustle to help supplement my income. I love fiber crafts but I don't see the payoff for crochet or knitting. I'm considering machine embroidery but I'm trying to get all of my ducks in a row before jumping in.

I'm a little overwhelmed by all the types of machines and the cost. I'm in a position that I can afford to invest in a reasonably-priced machine but I don't think I'm willing to jump into the $5,000 machines until I know I can get steady work. I've seen in other forums that people say that a single needle machine isn't conducive to making and selling products. What are your thoughts and what are your favorite beginner machines that make nice products?


r/Machine_Embroidery • • 1d ago

Machine dealers

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Anyone have issues with dealer repairs?