Turning the speed down helps so you can stop the machine before you get an unplanned needle change.ĭon’t pull too tight on the fabric when hooping. Sometimes when testing a design on higher speeds you discover an issue by sending needle parts across the room lol. I turned down the speed on my machine because honestly this thing will rip itself apart if given the chance. Inkstitch has a simple way to export this. It is a joy to do once you get the hang of it. Anyone who says digitizing is hard or expensive has not done their research. There are plenty of easy to digest tutorials and the program is free. I want to say that it’s important to test out a lot of this stuff yourself and get some hours on the machine starting with the built in designs and moving up to digitizing. Have fun, and ask lots of questions! Someone, somewhere has already torn their hair out trying to solve literally any issue you have! :-D Well, it's nearly all fun, until you've ruined an item and have tried every solution you know and are contemplating tossing the machine out the nearest window! -) Embroidery Library has a nice, complete article on which stabilizer works with which fabric, and many other tips and tricks. Matching the stabilizer to the fabric will give you a MUCH better end result. Your thread size doesn't matter as much as your stabilizer. Each brand has many different weights intended for different uses experiment and find out! This is the fun (and frustrating) part of the journey! You can embroider with many weights of thread, but the lower the number, the slower you should run your machine. Inkstitch is a great digitizing program, with the added benefit of automatically rendering your artwork into a vector format, which gives those smooth lines and edges.Įmbrilliance is another user-friendly digitizing program, with modules you can add to the base program as you get more involved and want to try new things. The thread isn't great quality, and will likely give you more headaches than stitches. The huge, inexpensive thread assortments on Amazon look great, but you really do get what you pay for.
Mine uses Mettler Polysheen, much to the delight of my sewing machine dealer. I know that sounds odd, but the majority of people I know who embroider (go to a few classes at an event, you'll meet and learn a lot!) swear their machine will only tolerate a specific brand of thread. You might find that your machine prefers one brand of thread over another - fewer snags, breaks, just fewer problems in general. Most use the A, but double and triple check. Check to see which variation your machine takes, there is an "L" and an "A", and it's not universal across the Brother brand. I buy prewound bobbins on Amazon, they are 90 weight thread, and they work beautifully on my Brother Quattro 3. *Not associated with /r/MachineEmbroidery
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