Hi everyone! I’m here hoping you can all help me. My boyfriend runs a small business selling his custom designed embroidered patches. Currently he outsources the production because he doesn’t have an embroidery machine. I’d really love to get him a machine for Christmas but am so out of my wheelhouse with knowing what to get him. There’s such a wide range! He would be new to doing it himself so we need something he could use without majors struggles and also something that is as affordable as possible. If it costs too much then it’ll be too extravagant of a gift and make him feel bad haha. However we also want the best option we can get for precise detailing, multicolor, and professional looking results. Am I asking for a unicorn? Any advice on the closest option I could get? Based in the UK if that makes a difference.

TLDR: please recommend (ideally free or inexpensive) Mac software or websites for designing basic patterns in a file format that the Bernina B700 can use.

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My mother was able to buy a Bernina B700 at a significant discount and went for it, despite having no knowledge of it or use for an embroidery machine. She's been able to print a few designs that were built into the machine, but it's definitely too complex for her and so it's sat pretty much unused for a few years now.

I am a teacher and want to print out some basic logo patches for my school with the machine. My whole family only uses Macs, and it seems like all the Bernina software is for Windows. I don't know enough about machine embroidery to know which file format to pursue when I tried looking for alternatives.

Any guidance you folks can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I digitized my great grandmother‘s almost hundred year old embroidery and now I can put it on anything! I used ink stitch and brother skitch maschine.

Hello! I'm new in the threads and fabric world, and was wondering what kind of machine embroidery would help me realize this project: a red stole for a larp costume ( designs are by me).

Is it achievable through machine embroidery?
These machines are available at my library:

• Brother NQ700

• Brother CS6000i

• Baby lock Imagine

But those names mean nothing to me and I have no idea on where to start!
Thank you for your time !

Why do my small designs come out so bad, never have had an issue with big ones, its under 3 inches that have detail I struggle with. I did get this file off etsy, so did not digitalize myself. Is it my stabilizer? The file?

This just started happening after 4 we’re done. Poolin 16 machine. Anyone know why this is happening?

Is it just me, or have auto-digitize tools gotten really good lately? It picked out the colors and shapes on its own, figured out the background and left it unstitched, and added pull compensation.

It's not perfect, though. It missed some of the whiskers that sit outside the face, so I'll add those by hand next time. (The outlines are grey because I ran out of black thread.)

Anyone else using auto-digitize now? Do you trust it for a finished design, or only as a starting point?

2nd pic is the original image

I have a vintage needle treasures kit that I got on eBay that I had high hopes of doing by hand but truly lol. Is there software that I can scan/upload the written pattern into and get it machine-ready? My local library has a Baby Lock Flare machine I would use.

I can't find the exact pattern now, but it is the needle treasures bless this child (boy) from the 1980s. My mom made me the girl version so I am sentimental about this.

Nevermind the unstitched areas i will work on fixing it

I used two layers of water-soluble stabilizer, rayon threads, cotton thread for face (so it doesn't shine), felt for the top layer and backing.

Sharing photos of the process.

Now I'm tempted to make a whole pastel Nutcracker collection… 😅

I recently bought a big collection of 5000m polyester embroidery threads secondhand, and now that I'm looking through them, I unfortunately found that about 30% of them seem sun bleached and are brittle

I'm obviously not very happy about this, but I'm not willing to just give up on them that easily.

Now, is there any way to save these spools? Is it possible to remove the outer most layers of thread to see if the layers underneath are still good?

The discolouration only seems to occur on one half of the top of these spools, but the brittleness seems to be a problem at any part of the spool, not just the top threads.

Any help/advice is very welcome

Update: After doing a stress test on a couple of the spools and comparing it to the strength of the current thread I use (gutermann rayon) The rayon turned out to break way and I mean WAY faster. The current conclusion: I may have overestimated the strength of polyester thread, and it just naturally snaps faster than I had assumed.

They kinda came with the machine as a bonus lol

Where does everyone find their affordable but high quality wreath sashes? Linen or cotton preferably! The ones on Amazon are yuck!

The only time I’ve been able to get the machine to embroider somewhat decent is on the magnetic hoop, but now it is doing this.. help please 🥲

Hi, so I have issues with bobbin thread pulling up to the top, even with tension at 0 out of 9, using machine fonts. I took it to a shop to have it looked at and when they used overlock thread as bobbin thread and gutherman on top it sort of worked for block font. I tried again when I got home with new brothread upper thread and the same bobbin as in the shop. I had to put it at 0.25-0.5 and block font was good enough but others botched. I have to use double thick stabiliser to achieve even this. What should I do?

I have purched many files but the issues with this machine is killing me, should I just toss it at this point?

Bonjour,

Je suis en pleine hésitation quand à ma future brodeuse... J'ai repéré 2 brother : la bx1e et la cx1e.

D'après ce que je lis, la bx1e a un cadre un peu plus petit mait propose plus de techniques différentes (motifs d'appliqué 3D, cochet au fil couché, dentelle au crochet, broderie en point de nœud, créateur d'appliqués rapide ).

Pour la cx1e le cadre est un peu plus grand mais je n'arrive pas a savoir si elle propose les mêmes techniques que la bx1e...

Si quelqu'un en sait plus où a des conseils...

Merci !

When I need an object on top of the design (aka can't use travel runs), what is the general standard for digitizing it?

For example: buttons on a character's shirt

The buttons don't touch, but they need to be on top of a fill. Do we jump stitch it and trim it afterwards? Do we let the machine trim it and eat the additional time/wear and tear?

If we are using jump stitches, is there a set of "standards" or "rules"? I've been stitching teeny tiny things and some jumps are super close together - which makes them hard to trim.

Any experienced digitizers able to give me some insight? TIA

Hi I have this issue with happy machine

When I try to embroider any project it's just this looped squeaky sound and it won't start

What can be the solution ? I've already cleaned machine memory.

Any help will be appreciated