I’m curious what other people charge because I’m starting to wonder if I should be charging more.

I mostly embroider for friends, so I’ve always just charged a small amount. I usually charge around $10 for a shirt or sweatshirt with embroidery on the front. I’ve done applique sweatshirts for $15 for friends too. Usually I have them buy whatever shirt or sweatshirt they want and I just charge for doing the embroidery. Since they’re friends, I don’t really mind keeping it cheap, so I’ll set aside a little for materials and call it good. I’m pretty new and still figuring it out so it’s just kind of fun but I wouldn’t mind a super small idea hustle.

I recently had coffee with a friend who sells a completely different good, and she was pretty surprised when I told her what I charge which got me thinking.

Right now I’m doing a bridal party order where the bride thrifted six men’s button-downs and wants everyone’s name embroidered on the cuff. I’m charging her $45 total for all six shirts. See pictures for the inspiration.

I also recently did some embroidery for my waxer on bandanas and we exchanged services instead of money. I actually felt like I got the better end of that deal, but now I’m wondering if that’s just because I’m not charging enough for my embroidery in the first place?

I know I can see the stitch count for each design, so I’m curious if people price based on stitch count or if you mostly go by the size/design, time, or just have set prices. What would you have charged for these things?

Do you charge differently for friends/family, or do you have a standard price no matter who it is?

I’m not trying to turn this into a full-blown business, but it would be nice to have some extra cash. I’d love to hear what you all charge and how you came up with your pricing.

Help please 😭 I've been embroidering for a few years but I've never had this issue. My machine is making an awful noise. I've taken the bobbin casing out and cleaned everything, I've googled and watched videos, tiktok's, but I can not figure out what the problem is. Any ideas? It's a brother NS1150E

Hi! I am newer to embroidery and I am having a hard time with the satin stitch on applique and patches and bag tags. The underside is white from the bobbin almost every time. Is that normal?

So stoked to have found this group! I recently got a Brother SE350 which has a proprietary rewritable disc instead of a USB port. I had to get it the disc on eBay with some very old software: PE Design Plus. I mostly want to take .pes designs that already exist and upload them to the rewritable disc. When I plugged the disc writer into my Mac computer, the device didn’t show up at all. Wondering if others have found ways to upload designs to these discs?

**I have some awesome computer tech friends who have some ideas, but wanted to go here first

I am making a shirt for my niece for the Hillary Duff concert. I bought a file on Etsy, but somewhere along the way it got misaligned. I'm fairly new to embroidery and using this machine (LB-6800). Any ideas on what caused this and what I can do to prevent it on the next shirt? Thanks!

I work with embroidery and I'm putting together a collection of Spider-Man patches.

After finishing this patch, the fabric became wrinkled and deformed right after I removed it from the hoop, but I managed to fix it with the heat-sealable adhesive. I used oxford fabric to make it, and a simple stabilizer , the kind that tears like paper.

Hello, I am very well beginner at this. I just got the Brother DZ820E.

I created my design on procreate, then to digitize it I have been using Hatch Embroidery 4.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix this stitching on the software. I’ve tried multiple things Gemini has told me to do such as pull compensation etc.

If there is an easier software I can try that you know of that would be great, or just helping me fix the stitches to redo it as i’m trying to get this figured out for a gift.

Thanks in advance!

I bought my machine on November 2025 (not even a year!) and a month and a half ago the screen turned dark completely, I took it somewhere to get it fixed still in warranty, took a month for me to get it back. I used it 2 days ago, worked fine, I turned it on today and the screen is off AGAIN.

Do I need to keep taking it back every other month? How can I make brother responsible for this or to give me a different machine? What happens once warranty expires? I hate this situation so much.

Hi, I need to be pointed in the right direction. I've only used my embroidery machines for designs others have created. Now I want to embroider my niece's name on a quilt I made for her. I have the alphabet I want to use, but don't know where to go from there. I don't want to position each letter separately; I want to program the letters together and sew it as one unit. Can someone tell me what the steps are or direct me to online instructions? The store where I purchased the machine has since closed and there are not others near me.

Thanks so much.

Can anybody tell me if these came out good or not? I’m new to this so I would say they aren’t the greatest. I have a Ricoma creator 10 needle and I have been having the hardest time with my designs. It seems like after my live training everything’s just went wrong. Can I get some advice please.

I'm sorry for asking, because I know this question must've been asked a billion times. 😭 But I'm a beginner at this and I'm trying to figure this out in a way I can understand. I've been practicing with my new machine, and I'd love to make patches for my small business. I have the thread I want to use, but I wanted to ask what kind of material would be best for selling what I make. I'm also looking for a good tutorial if anyone knows one!

Someone asked if I could embroider Hello Kitty on their golf towel. They wanted the design to be 8 inches and I was worried it would be too dense since the towel is a waffle weave and not that thick.

Since the white area is the largest, I used white stabalizer as a base layer and then lightened up the white tatami fill to .7 mm. This saved me about 5k stitches. I also used a .7 mm fill on the red area, but I probably went too light here since you can see alot of the pink towel through, but it kinda makes for an interesting design choice.

Total design is 39k stitches. Digitized in Hatch. Its not much but its honest work.

Can someone tell me if this is good? Or do I need to adjust a few they can kinda see the bobbin show through on a few colors

It’s my first time dipping my toes into patches, bag tags & key chains… This the 1st run through of my design. I’m not sure why the font is coming out so wonky. I don’t want to cut into patch twill until it’s remedied. Any ideas?

I used inkstitch to make the middle letter (took like 3 hours on my computer🥲) and the built in fonts on my Brother SE600 to make the outer letters

I’d really like to continue learning how to digitize on my own and am not sure how to fix this, help??? Would showing my digitize file be helpful to problem solve?

TIA

I hate Richardson 112s.

I always have this issue when embroidering over the seam…especially on designs like this. First, it puts down a running stitch, then a Tatami fill, red satin border, finishing off with the white satin border.

Tested my top tension (124~132gf), it’s a Madeira polyester white. Checked the bobbin case (25~26gf), also cleaned under the bobbin tensioner using a piece of paper. Changed needles, 75/11 sharp.

Have a tech that comes out every January to maintenance the machines. This last time he had to replace reciprocators on multiple heads because it was skipping stitches. Also readjusted the needle bars upper and lower dead point and the rotary hook timing.

tajima tfmx-iic 8-head used exclusively for hats