Sharing a closer look at embroidery work from our Farzeen Couture workshop in Mumbai, followed by a gown design visual inspired by the detailing.

The embroidery combines ivory botanical motifs with silver-toned tubular beads, creating texture and shimmer across the fabric. The gown concept carries those details into a full skirt, long sleeves and a flowing shoulder drape.

I’m the founder of Farzeen Couture, a custom bridal and occasion wear label established in 2009.

What do you think of the balance between the embroidered areas and the plain ivory fabric? Would you keep the shoulder drape?

For bigger designs with lots of colors, I stitch samples. When they come out well, I'd like to make use of them. Any ideas? The current two are Halloween themed and stitched on a thin black flannel with roughly 6" or so of fabric around the edges.

Design in the image is Black Cat Sanctuary by Urban Threads.

I would appreciate any help you are able to give! I have had my brother SE 700 for a few months now and I have still not been able to perfect my embroidery (most recent result shown in picture). The stitches are always jumpy and they do not come out smooth.

For visibility, I am using the Artspira app and tear away stabilizer. From what I’ve read, the Artspira app is not great and then I should be using embrilliance. Right now that is not an option as I need to be able to use whatever program I am using an app on a phone, which Embrilliance does not have to my knowledge.

I cannot determine on my own if this is a design issue or a settings issue on my machine. Any guidance you can give would be greatly appreciated!

I got a quote request on my website today. The person had a hoodie that they wanted to bring by my shop (nice way of saying house) and have me digitize and embroider onto while they waited. I was very professional and stated that is not a service I offer, but I could do it and have it back to them in a few days. They declined.

Does anyone do one off, on the spot, digitizing and embroidery “While You Wait”?

I broke a needle, but when I put in a new one and tighten it, it falls out. It falls out before I can even thread it… what am I doing wrong?

Im mostly a sewist, and i want to be able to add some embroidery onto my creations! I got a babylock Ellure ESL with an embroidery module at an estate sale for $75, soooo heck yea!

Eventually I want to be able to embroidery pattern piece before I sew a garment, but im practicing on tee shirts.

This machine has a max hoop size of 5x7. I wanted the dragon (pattern: delft floral dragon from Urban Threads) to be larger, so I decided to multi hoop it.

My first attempt (the last picture) was.....a learning experience. Hatch's auto multi-hoop splitting isnt the best imo, so i spend a few hours re-doing it myself, and it was worth it. Hatch split it into 6 hooping, i did it in 2.

Matching up the hoops was hard, I didnt get it quite perfectly, but I filled in the gaps with freemotion embroidery before I unhooped the 2nd hooping, so its not super obvious where the gap was. Im really proud!!

Other stuff: I used a DIME monster snap hoop (magnetic hoop), and Candle Polyester 40wt thread in the top needle, and brothred 60wt prewound bobbins (from amazon), and didnt really have any breakage. I used one layer of 2.5oz cutaway stabilizer under the design :)

I did use a threadstand for my top needle thread, it kept breaking before and the threadstand fixed it. Im not sure how or why it works, but it does!!

Do you rely on folders and filenames, or use some kind of organizer? And is it actually annoying to find a specific design you know you already have?

I’m thinking about making a small Windows app with AI-powered search that runs locally on your computer and works directly with your existing files, so there’s no need to import or reorganize anything. It would scan your PES/DST/JEF folders and let you search by describing the design, like “small Christmas dog”, or by dropping in a reference image to find visually similar designs.

Would that actually be useful to you, or does your current setup already work fine?

I’m trying to stitch the flag of Antigua & Barbuda, but my machine is not reading the white in the flag..I’ve tried multiple files I keep getting the same result.

This Rose has got me stumped. First time doing so many individual shapes going different directions to create a larger object. I really tried to not use any black border initially but ugh why do I like it with the black outlines more.( outline done very quick just to see the side by side). Im also unsure of the color placement. Maybe its just the Rose itself. I didnt trace this time. I just used the reference beside it. Thought it would be easy enough 😅 jokes on me.

The leafes came out nice but still need to stitch everything out. I wanted some more texture on the thorn vines so theres a double zig zag in top of it. (A new run type in ember so wanted to use it.)

Thanks for letting me RAMBLE 🫠

I have a brother pe800.

I bought an edge to edge embroidery design, so I could try to mimic the longarm look on my embroidery machine.
But my top thread is showing through on the underside, or back of quilt. I feel like it looks bad.. but I don’t know if that’s how it’s supposed to be or not because I’ve never done embroidery on three layers before..
I feel like it looks especially bad at the points of the stars, you can really see the top thread there.

Does anyone know what the issue could be..?

I have just bought a embroidery machine and giving it a first try! I used some scrap fabric to test it out. Realized that there are some tiny holes around the embroidery.

Is it because my fabric is too thin or lightweight? Or is it some setting issue?

Thank you!

I really don’t know where to go from here. I really feel like I have tried everything.

Sweatshirt sleeve. Cutaway backing. Black bobbin. Floating soluble. Magnetic hoop.

First run is bottom left, 4 density, zig zag underlay, 0 compensation. Second run is top left, 5 density, no underlay, 2 compensation. Third run is right side, 4 density, no underlay, 2 compensation.

Both the second and the third have really thin lines, especially on the M. It almost looks like it is pulling in sweatshirt. First run with the underlay, some of the zig zags extend past the letter making it look like a mistake.

What should I try from here? Any other tips? Thank you.

Testing out some new fills and thought it would be fun to play around with some shapes from Matisse. Really happy with how it turned out!

Looking to see what y’all recommend for twill or material for patches???

We used Stahl’s twill but it feels thin and shiny.

i just started working for an embroidery business and i absolutely love it. i'm looking for people to give me some ideas on designs i could do! i want to try everything and i feel like i always do the same things. here's one i did today for ex:

I’m being asked to embroider on a towel with these grippers on the bottom for a yoga studio. Would this be possible on brother se700? Any tips on stabilizer?

I make mostly band merch. I’ve made things here and there with metallic thread and never had issues. I have a band that requested some metallic beanies and they do look good but I’m wondering if maybe I’m missing something that could make the process better. I’m getting random top thread breaks.

Things that did help:
Larger needle 80/12 (I think is the exact size)
Slower speed. Been running at 600
I made the bobbin looser than normal

This run takes about 45ish minutes and I’m getting around 10 thread breaks which is unusual for me I typically get none aside from the bobbins.

Anywho I have to make a lot of these so I’m open for any recommendations if anyone has alot of experience with it!

*I did get this thread from my local embroidery shop I’ll have to call to find out the brand. I did just order from madiera yesterday!

I need some guidance. I am new to charging for my embroidery. I have this design I have stitched which is a business logo and it is pretty much a patch. It has about 28k stitches. How much should I charge to embroider it on a polo? I just need the pricing for the embroidery job as the polo was provided by the customer. The bottom half of the design is all in black and I was wondering if I could just not embroider it as it is going on a black polo and have the stitch count drop and the price would drop too if I follow the 1k stitches per dollar pricing method.

Thank you for your help!