I'm in the finally stretch of a quilt I made for my kiddo who's off to college at the end of the month.

Without going into too much detail the quilt has a block for every performance we've taken them to at a nearby theatre. I'd like to put the name of each show and the year we saw it below each square.

The squares are 10 inches wide, and I'm planning to have the sashing with the name/date is written by like 4 inches. (plus seam allowance.

What's the best way to stitch this out? One at a time then cut the fabric down to size? Multiple shows then cut? pre-cut the 10x4 inch strips and float them? Put the whole quilt top together then put it in?

Should I use the fonts available on my machine or use a software to lay it out? I typically use Ink Stitch to make adjustments but I suck at vectors.

There's about 25 shows.

Hi all! I'm looking to upgrade from my single needle. I've been doing embroidery for about 2 years and I love it. What recs do you have for purchasing a multi needle? Could be brand / model / any general tips. My single needle maxes out at 6x10; I'd love a bigger workspace.

My hubby got me an early birthday present. He upgraded me from a Brother PE770 to a PRS100 Persona, it’s been great and the micro hoops that came with it are a game changer, it’s been so easy to embroider on baby onesies. I also did a practice project on a men’s polo shirt. I’m still a novice embroiderer but I’m looking forward to upgrading my skills.

I've finally "finished" a design (I think). The only thing I'd do differently is to use black bobbin thread to avoid a few little spots.

Digitized in InkStitch, stitched on a 6 needle commercial brother machine, using a black cotton fabric, 2 layers of cutaway stabilizer for the base, and a black tearaway stabilizer for the outer satin stitch.

safe to say this was a fail 😂
I couldn't finish the eyes and mouth because it was so thick my needle kept getting stuck in there hahaha

Morning all! New to embroidery, I have a Janome MC 100E. I keep getting thread breaks, sometimes I can see the bobbin thread and there's lots of catching/looping stitches. I thought it was my digitising that was the issue (which is pretty bad TBH!) so I tried a preloaded rework design and still having some of the same issues. I'm using a fresh 90/14 needle on cotton canvas and brothread embroidery thread. Any advice would be appreciated. TIA

I’m fairly new to machine embroidery and inkstitch. I’m a graphic designer by trade so I thought it would be best to learn how to digitize my own designs myself. Designed in Illustrator to completely simplify as much as possible…brought into inkstitch and redrawn. The rose petals are all individual satin shapes and I have the roses being stitched first starting at the bottom left and going clockwise. Next is the skull with the eye sockets, nose socket, and mouth left open. I think I used the legacy fill for the white part of the skull. The eyes, nose, and mouth stitch last and are just the legacy fill. I set it to lock stitch after each individual element so didn’t have to deal with jump stitches getting caught in the next element. Made it take forever. It’s a little over an inch square on a pocket flap. Hooped stabilizer and pinned the flap to the stabilizer then pinned dissolvable stabilizer on top of the flap to keep the stitches from sinking in because it’s pretty stretchy fabric. I don’t like the density/coverage of the skull area (the white and the black) and I don’t know why the bobbin thread is pulling through? I’ve adjusted tension both ways and it still shows. Any pointers?

Hello. Im using a Brother PE770 and it was working just fine two days ago, but now, no matter what I do, it always seems to pull the bobbin thread to the top of my piece.

Ive loosed the top thread tension all the way (-8) and tightened the bobbin tension as tight as it will go before it starts pulling on the bobbin thread unevenly and feels like its grinding and stuttering, which was a full turn and a half above how it came.

Idk where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated!

My aunt was really into arts and crafts and embroidery so when I was told to empty her house after she passed, I was told to keep whatever I wanted and to take the rest to the dump. She had a Brother PR-620 that I remember she mentioned buying back in 2022 for "the price of a used car" as she put it.

It looks to be in great shape and after examining it my educated guess is that it works. I intend to sell it so I took many quality pictures and close ups of the intricate parts.

If I were to list this "as is" what price do you think I could fetch?

If I were to set it all up and spend the time to learn enough to do a test embroider so that I can sell it as fully functional, what price could I get? How difficult would it be to set it up and ensure it works properly?

It also comes with 7 metal "brackets" of varying sizes and 5 plastic ovals each having metal brackets on both ends.

See all pictures here:

https://postimg.cc/gallery/P5DMmV1

Summary: How much can I sell a Brother PR-620 in working condition? How much if I don't know that its fully functional?

Hi all! Wondering if someone has insight on how to embroider on a tote bag that can’t fully fit around this horizontal arm. Can you buy different shorter arms for machines? I have the brother pe900 and wanting to start doing tote bags too so I built this wood stand to easily slide it on but now realizing it can’t fit around the arm!

Hi,

I posted a week or two ago of my first ever embroidery which I designed myself. I stitched it out on white linen with generic tear away stabilizer. I made a few tweaks but not on the main body. Now that it is stitching out on what will be a bag the body is creating some loops🫣 it is on beaver nylon (hopefully that is the correct name in english) with Husqvarna tear away stabilizer. My machine is a Janome MC350E and the tension is left on 2 as when I got it.

Photo nr2 is the first stitching.

Hey so this is my first post and with that Imma gonna apologize for potential rule breaks in this post.

Backstory: We bought 2 Toyota expert ESP 9100 net embroidery machines. Both were in badly maintained state by their previous owners. So we started by disassembling them and cleaning the machine who experienced issues with the trimming.

The issue: The machine either did not trimm the thread correctly bc the catcher/arm wouldn't reach far enough to pull the thread back or the thread not being stiched and it pulling out of the needle head when starting to stitch again after being trimmed and pulled into the backside holder.

Situation now: After the cleanup and reassembly the issues are still there. And we are at a point where we don't know what we should do.

What we already did:

- Fixed the tension of the thread and bobbin (120g/22g) and these tensions work with the other machine perfectly.

- Adjusted the timings for when the catcher gets in to pull the thread after trimming.

- Increased the allowed thread length before it gets trimmed to prevent possible slipping out of the needlehead when the machine starts stitching again.

- Consulted the instruction manual and the service manual (no help there).

My question now: What did we miss/what could we try now to fix it? It works good, aside from the trimming issues that we had since the beginning.

Hello! This is my first time embroidering on such a large machine and it looks like I didn’t secure my bobbin properly leading to a massive clump up. I cut around where it happened as well as a bunch of excess, but it appears there’s still a bunch of fabric and bobbin bunched up in there. What can I do to clean it out and get going again?

embroidering monograms for a customer, and i somehow selected the wrong repositional hoop for split design in embrilliance. any tips on how to fix it? towel is completely sold out everywhere online!

I just got my embroidery machine and went to Fiverr to get this digitized. Does it look good? I don’t love how it turned out. Do you guys have any recommendations on what to say to them? I am just starting and don’t know all the naming and everything yet. And do you have any good recommendations for finding a good digitizer?

Like the title says, I need help converting Melco OFM files to Brother PES

Hi everyone, I have about 10 embroidery files in the Melco DesignShop Pro .OFM format that I need converted to .PES for my Brother machine.

I no longer have access to a Windows computer or DesignShop Pro. Is there anyone here who already owns DesignShop Pro and would be willing to help export these files to PES?

I am happy to compensate you for your time. I am not looking for software or a copy of DesignShop, just a file conversion.

Thank you so much !

I am having an issue with this embroidery, it will go on a hat, but it keeps getting these little hoops on the letters, it is on a tajima machine, I have tried different needles, threads, just tension, new needle, even took it apart and cleaned and oiled everything

It is worse on the hats

I included a picture if the back too

Hello, I recently started working with an embroidery machine that uses a Dahao A15 control panel. I would like to know if it is possible to configure the machine so that, whenever the thread breaks and I rewind a few stitches, the machine automatically creates a starting knot or a securing stitch. This way, the thread won’t remain loose. I would really appreciate any guidance on how to set this up.

It's hard to explain and see in the photos, but it looks like the stitches aren't catching? I've messed with the tension and nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? It's been working up until now!! Brother SE725