You have just purchased your first embroidery machine and there you are considering it asking yourself how to use it. The salesperson managed to get appear simple in the show room he or she snapped a hoop in place pushed few buttons and created wonderful embroidery designs. In reality, it’s simple but you will require some skills plus some basic understanding to acheive the truly great results out of your equipment.
Before you begin the following is my advice; those of you that don’t read instructions, Read the handbook. You should at the least learn how to thread the machine properly, the way to put in the bobbin. how to fix your hoop, how to clean and oil your embroidery machine. Now, which are you planning to embroider? You might have got a new machine with some patterns built in or possibly you have received some design CD’s with your machine. But, are they what you want to sew? Maybe you might have some project in mind that’s quite different from the typical floral and Disney heroes that include your machine.
If you’re seeking out designs there are heaps of them on the net just type machine embroidery designs into the search engine. Most websites have zero cost designs that you can experiment with. A number of people will say that the number of designs to choose from is excellent, myself think it somewhat mind-boggling. If you are looking for something specially, type exactly what you want into the google , bing and other, for instance. “Embroidery designs ant hamburger”. This will save you a good amount of time hunting through lots of patterns for what you want. Now you have the design you would like to stitch you no doubt know what you will stitch it on, but hang on, don’t do it. test stitch it initial, I know this seems like a ton of work however it if the pattern is just not what you want or it doesn’t stitch well you’ll have to remove the entire embroidery stitches or dispose of the item away. While you’re still learning about machine embroidery it’s a good ideas to work with stable materials to start with, light weight and knit materials are a bit tricky to work with and you need some practice before you move onto them, think back to the showroom where you purchased your machine, what cloth did they choose to show you it working? It was almost certainly a nice stable weave like homespun or calico.
Another thing you might want to understand is the best way to hoop up correctly and which stablizers to utilize. There are many sorts of stabilizers on the market but the rule of thumb is “Cutaway” on unstable fabrics (e.g. stretchy or knitted); “Tearaway” on stable materials (e.g. woven); and use “Washaway” on freestanding lace or garments, or some really cool 3D stuff with organza – that is, if you would like to totally remove the stabilizer once the embroidery is complete. Make sure you cut sufficient stabilizer to fit into the hoop then hoop that together with the item you are going to embroider. Now put it into the machine being careful that no other parts of the item are likely to slip into the path of the needle. So now off you go get stitching. Remember be patient and have fun Happy stitching.
