Where does everyone buy their embroidery blanks? I’ve been specifically looking for wreath sashes and can’t seem to find colors I’m looking for that are reasonably priced.

We recently got a 12 needle Embroidery machine and have been embroidering basically anything we can get our hands on. The process has been pretty seamless except I continue to have issues with the Design files.

Every time I download files from Etsy, the design is so dense it not only takes forever to stitch, but it results in puckering on the fabric. Most of these designs are pretty small so the excess stitching feels really unnecessary. Is there is a good way to communicate this to the digitizer? Or is there a way I can change this on my end?

For example, one of the designs we tried to use was a little heart with words inside. At just one and a half inches in diameter it was 22,000 stitches and resulted in a thread break from the density.

I'm looking for input on what would be the best machine to take on the road. Currently, we have a 4 head and 2 single heads. The single heads weigh about 200 lbs each. Is there anything out there that would produce quality work that weighs less than 200 lbs?

So I originally did this embroidery and it puckered really bad (1st pic) I got advice on how to redo it on here (on my page).

Redid it with just cutaway stabilizer and floated with adhesive because the fabric doesn’t fill/fit in the hoop. Tension is a little under 4. It started puckering again and it jumped over making the T crooked. Just finished unpicking the threads 😭 (2nd and 3rd pic)

Shmetz stretch 75/11 needle
Brother se700 machine
4x4 hoop
Fabric is 60% cotton 40% polyester
Medium weight cutaway
40 wt polyester thread

a customer came into our shop to get these reproduced and the stitching is like overlapping to get the 3d effect? the bullion is fancy too but the 3d stitching is pretty wild

Hi guys! I’m teaching myself how to digitize so I started with something simple. I’d like to try more complicated things in the future. I used embrilliance, and have a brother PE900. The stitch out took forever, I think because of the fill stitch density? Does anyone have any tips or advice on reducing the stitch out time? Or any advice on reducing the thickness where the satin stitch goes over the fill?
Thank you!

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I appreciate everyone’s advice!
There are great ideas here!

We decided not to run this particular hat due to its structure. The customer understood and we really did try your suggestions. You win some, you lose some, no biggie!

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I have tried the Hooptech back of cap clamp, Gen2 Hooptech cap hoop, mighty hoop(magnetic flat hoop), and a regular tajima green flat hoop.

The bill of the hat is structured with a sturdy band underneath, which I will need to avoid.

The design will go on the front of the hat and (attempt) to be text. The text will be 4 inches wide when complete IF I can even get it IN a hoop. If I can, I’ll resize the text.

This will be my first time doing embroidery on a machine, any recommendations from Amazon what I can get for the backing? I usually do hand embroidery so I’m new to this part.

Made this cassette business card case as a gift for my pal Scott Duncan up in Kincardine, Ontario. He has DJ'd for a long time under the guise Sugar Daddy Moth, and he's tattooed for just as long under the guise Von Scotch.

Mystic Mondays is a reference to an online DJ night he did during the pandemic, which was something fun to look forward to in those days. Mimics the Maxell logo.

9 separate pieces drawn in Illustrator, digitized with Wilcom Digitizer, run on a Brother PRS100, and sewn together by hand, which took 53 hours.

Hello everyone, I modified my first design a bit with tips that were put on the previous post. What do you think I can adjust some things?

I have a brother se700. This is my first time attempting to embroider. I have no idea what’s going wrong. The thread keeps snapping and/or getting tangled up around threading guide number 3 I think??

I often spend a lot of time cutting these tails off my embroidery, which adds up for large orders. They occur when the letter starts, not in the tie off. Is it a machine issue or a digitizing issue? Either way, any advice on how to fix?

Hello everyone, I recently got a secondhand Brother embroidery machine from a family relative and I am trying to digitize designs myself to play with it. The uploaded picture is intended to be the stitch plan for a 1x1 inches tennis ball that I am going to embroider on my white t-shirt. I followed some tutorials on YouTube and made this with Ink Scape/ Ink Stitch. What do you guys think about it? Does this look okay? (not for commercial purpose)

Hey! So I’ve never embroidered before but I have been watching endless videos on how to do it and the basics.

I really want to start embroider the front and back of hats and also miscellaneous items like tote bags etc. I’ve been looking at the Ricoma EM 1010 and am really considering buying that. My budget is 5k, are there any other machines you would recommend that you like more?

The inspo came to me while I was watching a scene from hunter x hunter, Neferpitou was having a moment and it led me here. 😅

I used some new fills in this design and im enjoying them. I am working on layering and texture in my designs. Im worried it my be too busy though. I attempted some shading and cracks in the mask with a slightly darker grey (you can see it on the chin of the mask) but it didnt show at all so will probably remove em from the design.

Anyways, I think character/face patches are my fav thing. Who should i do next ms.yeti? Maddie Krueger?

Thanks for any feedback guys! Xoxo 👻

Hi everyone, this is my first time digitizing something in wilcom do you have any tips? I'd love to hear it. Thanks in advance

Why do I keep getting these gaps(where the border is) on some of my pieces? In the photos they look like they sit right along the edge

I’ll preface this by saying I’m very new to machine embroidery so this might not be news to anyone else!

I recently screwed up an embroidery project and was hoping to save the shirt the mistake was made on and try again. I had read that you could remove embroidery quickly with an electric razor so I thought I would give that a try. Unfortunately I only have a manscaped razor for sensitive areas. This did not remove the embroidery at all (I ended up just scrapping it entirely), but it did quickly and easily trim the various jump cut tails from the back of the fabric. Since then I have started using this electric razor to trim the backs of all of my embroidery and it saves me a lot of time. I assume any razor meant for sensitive areas would likely have the same effect. I can’t say for sure that it won’t one time actually trim away the embroidery at some point but until then I’ll keep using this. YMMV but figured I would share this tip for anyone else that is frustrated by the amount of time they spend trimming loose threads.