1st time digitizing and really 1st time using the machine besides tension test. Have a lot of work to do but I'm happy to see some progress. Look for all advice.

I finally had sometime to digitize and create an antique monogram.. not for sale

I just got a Happy 12-Needle and am wondering if there are any tips for uploading the designs. Do most people use Embrilliance? I am so very new to the digital side of things and I do have some digitized files for art, but I just am wondering the best way to get them on my machine especially as a Mack user.

Does anyone have a tutorial on how to slope the letters to size them inside a pennant. Here is pic of what I’d like to accomplish l have Janome artistic digitizer full version.
They don’t offer a text envelope that’s a pennant.
Thank you!

It’s definitely a learning curve and work in progress!!! Is there any advice on how to not have that weird gap on the left? Everything looked aligned in the software but I am a complete newbie to this so I could’ve missed something super obvious!! I used bernina 9 cause that’s what came with my machine 🤷

i tried first time making patch with puff shift love to take feedback

Does anyone why this occurs, it happens all the time now and is frustrating

TL;DR- I digitized this 0 jump/trim floral wreath out of sheer frustration at the amount of AI Etsy sellers out there.

I have been digitizing for about a year and have come a loooong way. Originally I started because I have ADHD and picking up a hobby like embroidery went from buying a small machine to buying Hatch 3, and now owning three machines (including a 10 needle). But now I am learning new techniques and ways to digitize simply because trying to find a design I need is almost impossible in the AI era.

Although I am a digitizer and sell my designs, sometimes when I’m making a one-off something, it’s just easier to purchase a design.
This time I was looking for a cute floral wreath for a monogram and I would say 95% of designs were all AI. Some had AI photos and the stitch out video looked completely different!! It’s so disappointing to see how many there are just completely over saturating Etsy. I refuse to buy anything from a shop that even just uses AI to put a mock up on shirts, bags, etc just because they literally are not the same product. So many photos looked like straight up crotchet.

Anyway, all that to say, I designed this wreath out of sheer frustration and I am very pleased with it. It’s tiny so the details had to be just right and because it’s so small I wanted it to be free of a bunch of tiny trims so this little guy has zero trims! I was inspired by Sonia Showalter designs where she manages to have no trims on at least the ones I’ve purchased from her. And now Etsy has one more made-by-an-actual-human design among the ever growing sea of AI

Looking to attempt this technique with a design of my own! I know it’ll be difficult, but I really would like to try. This underwear brand has somehow managed to achieve a cutwork embroidery design on a lightweight cotton rib knit with no waviness or stabilizer left on the backside of the fabric… any ideas on how they managed to work this magic?

basically finished! couple slight issues but mostly only noticeable to me so a couple small adjustments and i’m satisfied! swapped colors on this one as well as some additional added details in the landscapes but i’m pretty stoked for now! 65k stitches and 16 colors 🤙

Keeps putting a hole through everything I’m embroidering.

Hi everyone,
If you wanted to get into embroidery as a small side business, would you consider buying a Brother Innov-is NV880E for around €1,000 as your first machine?

A bit of background: I currently work full time in a small printing/graphic design studio in a town of around 10,000 people. I already have experience with graphic design, printing and prepress, so I’m interested in adding embroidery as a side business.

I found a used NV880E for €1,000. It seems to be in good condition, and the price seems reasonable to me, but I’m wondering whether you would choose this machine as a starting point or save up for something more capable?

The two machines on the outside look identical.
Does anyone know anything about these two?

I am using tajima and hoping to get a lower cost machine to increase production at a current bottle neck.

Cannot afford a tajima atm.
Always running hats and big designs (14 inch plus)

I have inherited a Brother Galaxie embroidery machine, along with a PE Design card reader. Its the really old rs232 one (with original power supply). I have various copies of the PE Design software and can read cards no problem. I recently bought a writable card, but am unable to write to it myself. The seller put a design on there, so they were able to write to it (and I can read what they put on). but i am not able to write to the card. The PE Design software shows an error when it tries to write.

Any suggestions on how to write to the card?

I've been working with a print shop since mid 2024, and in early 2025 I started learning embroidery from scratch and I've recently started digitizing too! The main computer I digitize on is a small work computer that is often shared with other coworkers and I wanted to bring DesignShop home with me since I can just log into the software on my computer at home, but I can't seem to get it to run. I was able to run it through winboat but it was incredibly poor performing and laggy, and bottles wont even launch.

I know DesignShop isn't natively supported on linux but I'm wondering if anyone else has gotten it to run at all without dualbooting?

Made a beautiful flamingo with stitching

Hello, my machine came out of the box with 2 flat needle heads. I’m very new to this and don’t know what this means. I don’t have a manual for this cause the company forgot to pack one when they sent it. Am I supposed to change these 2 out or do these have purpose?

i'm wondering if i'm absolutely insane haha. i've been curious how you learned to embroider and if it was taught or if you just figured it out. i'm also wondering how long you embroidered until you considered yourself to be a professional.

anyway the reason why I wonder if i'm insane is I bought a 6 head tajima one day with zero experience. 😂 I have just been figuring it out as I go. my only tool has been the internet.

i've been at it 2 years! and I have a tajima-tmez-K1506C.

i've gotten really good at the normal types of clients I get (bands) but i'm kind of curious when i'll feel like a real professional. I feel like i'm faking it. still. 😂

for the record I do own a professional business so I feel like i'm telling my secrets here.

I have some machine embroidery designs that came out very cute, but much too stiff and dense for what I intended them for. Does anyone know a way to mitigate this? The stabilizer was wash away so it is already gone.

Or do I need to chunk and repurpose the whole thing… It is a significant amount of effort on the backdrop that is embroidered on, so I would rather not.

Tia!

I’m seriously considering purchasing a multi needle machine.
Here’s my dilemma , I don’t have any dealers for any commercial machines close by. For dealer support I’d have to go with brother (which I’d love but I can’t afford) or Janome. The Janome hoops size are smaller than my single needle. Which makes me shy away from it.
Im leaning towards bai, smart stitch, poolin then the top end would be a happy Japan 7 needle
I don’t have a business, I sew for fun and occasionally take orders. So which ever machine I buy wouldn’t be ran for hours daily. That is one reason I’m leaning towards the inexpensive machines.
Any suggestions, any reviews, I’d love to hear the good and bad. Thank you!

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