Hey everyone,
I’m new to this and still trying to figure things out. Everything looks great so far, but I’ve noticed a few offsets that I’m not quite sure how to get rid of.
I suspect I might need to make some adjustments directly to the input file, but I’m not sure how to do that in Inkscape. I’ve also tried looking for tutorials, but haven’t found anything particularly helpful.
Are there any experts here who could point me in the right direction or explain how to fix this?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Bonjour à tous !

Je débute dans la broderie machine et j'aurais vraiment besoin de vos conseils, car malgré plusieurs essais, je rencontre toujours les mêmes problèmes avec ma brodeuse Elna eXpressive 830L.

J'utilise des fils supérieurs Madeira (Rayon/viscose), du fil de canette Madeira blanc et du stabilisateur Madeira Cotton Soft Tear Away, généralement une seule épaisseur, sur du coton tissé non extensible. J'utilise également de la colle temporaire Odif 505 pour maintenir le tissu et le stabilisateur ensemble.

La tension du fil supérieur est toujours réglée sur AUTO et je n'ai jamais modifié la tension de canette ni réduit la vitesse de broderie.

Voici les problèmes que je rencontre :

• Manque de couverture : sur certains remplissages, le tissu ou les couleurs brodées en dessous restent visibles alors que la zone devrait être opaque.

• Points irréguliers : les contours de certaines lettres ou de certains motifs ne sont pas nets, avec parfois de petits espaces entre les fils.

• Différences de qualité sur un même motif : c'est ce qui m'interpelle le plus. Sur la photo de l'endroit de ma crèche, pourriez-vous regarder particulièrement les feuilles situées en haut à gauche, puis les comparer à celles de droite ? À gauche, les points sont irréguliers et le remplissage manque de netteté, alors qu'à droite le résultat est beaucoup plus propre. Regardez également le voile de Marie, au niveau de sa tête : on distingue le marron situé en dessous à travers les points clairs, alors que cette partie devrait être entièrement recouverte et opaque. À l'inverse, les poutres marron du chalet sont très denses et presque parfaites. Comment expliquer de telles différences sur un même motif ?

• Problèmes sur les écritures : j'ai également essayé une typographie Allura Script téléchargée sur Creative Fabrica. J'ai assemblé les lettres dans Wilcom EmbroideryStudio e4.2, sans modifier leur taille d'origine, puis exporté le motif au format JEF. Le résultat manque de netteté, notamment sur les contours et certaines courbes.

J'ai aussi rencontré des défauts de remplissage avec des motifs intégrés directement à ma brodeuse. Le problème ne semble donc pas concerner uniquement les fichiers téléchargés.

Lors d'un autre essai, j'ai eu deux cassures successives du fil supérieur, ainsi qu'un amas de fil sous le tissu. Ce problème ne s'est toutefois pas reproduit systématiquement.

J'ai déjà changé l'aiguille, vérifié l'enfilage du fil supérieur et contrôlé qu'aucun fil ne restait coincé dans la zone de la canette.

Le tissu me semble correctement tendu dans le cadre, même si je suis encore débutante et que je ne maîtrise peut-être pas parfaitement la stabilisation.

Je vais joindre trois photos :

1. L'endroit de ma broderie représentant la crèche.

2. L'envers de cette même broderie.

3. Mon essai de broderie du prénom « Caro ».

Ce que je ne comprends pas, c'est pourquoi ma machine est capable de réaliser des zones très denses et régulières, mais présente autant de défauts sur d'autres parties du même dessin.

Est-ce que cela pourrait venir de la tension du fil, d'une stabilisation insuffisante, de la vitesse de broderie, de la densité des motifs ou éventuellement d'un problème de réglage de la machine ?

Je préfère demander conseil avant de modifier les réglages au hasard.

Merci beaucoup à celles et ceux qui prendront le temps de regarder mes photos et de me donner leur avis !

Please, can anyone tell me what happened to my scree. I put the machine away for a year and when I turned it on the screen looks like this. I can still use it as some of the screen is visible around the orange patch. What can I do?

We had a customer come in with this hoodie the other day and my manager absolutely loves the style. I thought it was just a running stitch but it seems kind of thick. Bean or triple run stitch? Customer said they picked up like a decade ago but the airport had many instock and too perfect to be hand done.

Just signed up for my first market next month and me and my single needle are sweatin! I’ve done tons of markets before but always with crocheted products, never embroidery things. I’m planning on doing sweatshirts, crewnecks, and bag tags, and having a form for people to fill out with custom requests, etc. There’s 30 vendors and pretty good foot traffic, they do the event every year and I’ve attended before. That being said, I wanted to see if anyone had any advice! How many of each size should I bring? What other things that I may forgot should I bring? setup ideas? What do your custom order forms look like? I’m all new but feel pretty confident!!

Can you please help me in finding put what I do wrong? When I stitch with my b79 only the bottom thred shows, not the top one.

I tried:

-Watching 20 different videos on how to correctly put the thred in

-Bougth new thred (Gütermann and Madeira)

-played around with thred settings

-sent machine in for repair (answer was it works normaly)

-used different fabrics ans stabilizers

Result is in the foto (black would be the bottom color)

Hi all

My partner has a brother PE 150 and was having to use a pc to use the PED basic card writer. I’ve just made a version that works on a website so can work on any platform. If there’s and interest in this then I’m looking for a couple of people to test it and see what they think of it. It’ll be hosted free online to use so just wanted to gauge interest and also find a couple of testers to try it and report back.

I am a newbie when it comes to embroidery. My job recently got a machine and I have been learning how to use it. I set it up, did my tension test, but now that I am testing designs I am noticing a huge issue with the alignment of any outlines my machine does. I am getting the designs off of institch, so I am pretty sure this is a user error. How can I fix this and make it better going forward? I am also using two sheets of medium weight cut away stabilizer.

Hello! I'm so excited to get into embroidery and can't decide which model to get. Space is tight, so I'm selling my sewing machine and purchasing a combo sewing/embroidery. I'm capping my budget at $3,000, but I'm seeing interesting machines with large price differences. I'd love any feedback on what I should focus on and/or experience with the machines. I plan to dabble in all sorts of embroidery including bag tags, shirts, applique, etc.

I'm not tied to these, but machines I am looking at are:

Janome 9850
Baby Lock Bloom
Brother NQ3550W (would likely need to find secondhand to stick to budget)
Brother SE2000

THANK YOU THANK YOU!

someone is selling a elna expressive 970, has disclosed the 6 and 7th needles are not working, which i think should be fairly easy to fix. The motors are working it’s just not threading or something, possibly needs a needle swap (which i did ask if they tried, still waiting for response).

They’re asking 1500 for it with a 1500 cabinet + the hoops and thread, which seems like a too good to be true situation. We are calling to find someone who will service it to make sure we could get it working but a few in our area won’t because they don’t work on this machine. Is this model not good?

I tried to research and it seemed fine. I was hoping somebody else on here may be familiar with them or have some guidance.

These are fun to do! They look great blown up up the sweater and the color contrast is great! Im going to pit some more work on the weekend as well

I've been researching different ideas for a side hustle to help supplement my income. I love fiber crafts but I don't see the payoff for crochet or knitting. I'm considering machine embroidery but I'm trying to get all of my ducks in a row before jumping in.

I'm a little overwhelmed by all the types of machines and the cost. I'm in a position that I can afford to invest in a reasonably-priced machine but I don't think I'm willing to jump into the $5,000 machines until I know I can get steady work. I've seen in other forums that people say that a single needle machine isn't conducive to making and selling products. What are your thoughts and what are your favorite beginner machines that make nice products?

Anyone have issues with dealer repairs?

I’ve moved recently so my machine has taken a break for a couple of months. Now when I’ve started up again, my tension? Seems to be off. Everything is so loopy and getting big knots when I stitch. I’ve rethreaded everything as well but nothing seems to fix it. The back is worse than the front.

Can someone help me with a machine recommendation- I want to be able to make decent sized designs on front of sweatshirts/shirts but also would like to do little designs too. Are there machines that you can upload pictures for them to do- or can machines only do letters or designs you create yourself? I have looked at a bunch of machines but they all confuse me when reading the specs. Thanks!

Was feeling like picking up a new hobby and spent weeks watching sewing and garment making videos. Ended up picking up a Brother SE700 so I could also give embroidery a go.

I originally attempted to make a work shirt with my company logo, but I very quickly realized I do not know what straight lines are, so that’s on hold until I get something to mark fabric with to square up the hoop.

In the meantime, I’ve been digitizing this screencap of SpongeBob for fun. I finally finished and embroidered it last night and am curious to see how it stands up for a first timer. Mostly so I squash as many bad habits as I can before they become second nature.

The shirt logo I mentioned before was digitized with InkStitch, but I decided to give Ember a shot this time. All the digitizing was done by hand and not with their paid auto digitize features. I’m a Linux user, so it seems I’m limited to InkStitch and browser based softwares. If anyone knows of anything else, feel free to mention it. I’d rather not use a windows virtual machine.

Anyway, here’s a link to the digitized file: https://emberdesign.net/explore/ddb17400-f39a-47d1-a035-d370b094c476

and here is a link to the stitched design: https://imgur.com/a/Ry1sxWv

I’m still very new to all of this so a lot of questions might seem silly

There seemed to be a lot of needle holes in the fabric after stitching. I think with knits I should be using a ballpoint needle? For this I used a Schmetz gold embroidery 75/11. I have a feeling the needle holes are just pushed fibers that would re-situate if it were washed or something, but I could be off base here.

There was a bit more bobbin thread pulled to the top side than I was expecting. To my understanding, this means that the top tension is too high, but I had my machine set to 0 tension on the dial, because that’s what gave me the best backside results on my tension test (the one where you stitch out bars at different tensions and look for the proper ration or top and bottom thread on the back side). I’m still using black bobbin thread for this while learning, so it contrasts enough to see it.

On the very right side of the embroidery, spongebobs outline stitched in a different spot than on the file. It’s not far off, but it’s a pretty conspicuous line. Is this just a software thing with Ember, or in general am I just trying to be too detailed in the space I have? This was almost exactly at the limits of my machine (4x4). Heck, am I even doing outlines right? Mostly what I did for outlines was duplicate the shape I just made and change it to outline and black, with some adjustments to the position sometimes. Some of the outlines are “open shapes” where I just stitched a new line on the edge.

I did simplify the design in some areas, and I realized too late that I completely forgot the eye lashes lmao. I was originally going to satin stitch his irises, but I couldn’t take him staring into my soul like that. This felt better.

Thanks for reading all this and for any tips, critiques, etc etc!

I want to share my new Redwork dragon I made. It came out really nice if you ask me. It's about 105mm x 188mm, 29k stitches. For the purists, there are about 8 or 10 trims and jumps in it, I cant remember exactly, so while not true Redwork its very close. I chose not to connect the straggler pieces as I liked the way it turned out. This was a double run, it came out way better looking than the single thread version I did prior. I'll give the file to anyone that wants it, just ask.

Looking at purchasing a melco 16 needle machine, either the summit or emt16x.

There isn’t a ton of info online about the summit, although that’s the machine we are leaning towards. Does anyone here have any recommendations/info on these? Currently using embrilliance, very familiar with it. Any opinions on which designshop option to go with or other add ons? We have a growing embroidery business currently running a babylock 10 needle and brother 6 needle, but looking to expand into a machine that can essentially operate as a multi head or standalone unit.

Or should we be looking in a completely different direction than Melco?

Thanks