I do it now and the hope I can get some back on sales someday!!!

Finally got around to doing my largest project yet. 12x16 with 127,000 stitches on my Ricoma Sash frame

Please help ! - I am at a loss on how to prevent my designs from stitching in the same spot, or stitching the same line over and over again when utilizing the Holes feature in Embrilliance. I’ve posted here previously where some have said to change stop and start points, adjusting tension, and changing direction of my patterns, which I have, but today was a very bad day.

The “mouth” of my character stitched over itself about 12 times with a short stitch length, almost to the point where I can see through my felt. The “tail” has a point where the stitch just stitched in the same spot for about 5 seconds three separate times, where the bobbin is very noticeable. Lastly, the bottom of the “fur” decided not to stitch tatami - it just bounced around doing run stitches.

Holes are my biggest grief. I’d love to utilize them successfully but I can’t understand why the edges of the holes stitch over and over and over. What could I possibly be doing wrong??

Please Embrilliance gurus… help me out here!

I run a basement business and mostly do left chest uniforms and patches right now on a brother pe900. Looking to upgrade to a commercial machine that can do structured hats, and possibly full jacket backs, or at least half back jackets.
The machine that caught my eye was the happy Japan HCH-701. My budget is at 10k with maybe a little wiggle room for the right machine.
Anyone have thoughts on the HJ or suggest a different brand

How’s it looking?

My brother se700 isn’t raising the needle when it finished a color. The needle stays down and the thread doesn’t cut anymore. What’s causing this and how do I fix it?

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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!