I am thrilled about this!!! As someone who sells embroidery designs, I am directly impacted by Al making Etsy untrustworthy. Customers have to do so much investigating to make sure they are getting something legitimate and sometimes it's impossible to tell.

I happily post actual photos of my designs stitched out for new designs I list already, but for some older ones, I just have the preview from Hatch, but I am more than willing to take the time to restitch them and take photos for the listing if I need to.

This will be huge for everyone. I'm so tired of seeing Al junk from literally any type of seller. I can't wait to see what happens to all of those Al shops!

I am new to machine embroidery with my Brother SE700 (4x4 hoop). I am thrilled to have my machine but am feeling hesitant to create as I have ruined quite a few items I tried to embroider on and I hate wasting the money of the item. I’d like to ask my family for blanks for Christmas. Is there a company you order from for small projects? Interested in shirts, baby and kid clothing, caps, doll clothes, and small projects.

Whenever I start thinking about upgrading my embroidery machine I get overwhelmed reading reviews. I don’t know which sources are reputable and which are purely paid sponsorships. When you are trying to find information on different machines where do you go?

New to embroidering, I have a brother nq1700e. Thoughts on Madeira/Isacord/Floriani threads and where to buy them?

Hi everyone, I have a Brother PE800 and I'm struggling with a logo I bought from Etsy. The small text (under 5mm) is always messy and thread keeps breaking.

I've tried auto-digitizing in SewWhat-Pro but it's worse. Is it my tension or the DST file itself? The logo has 3 colors.s.

How do you guys get clean small text? Do you outsource it? Any tips for 3D puff on caps as well?

Thanks!

Is it too late to fix? I’ve double stitched.
Is there anything I can put on the edges to help it to not pull more???

What is going on why is it making this noise???

Hallo liebe Community,

ich habe für eine neue Tolkien Elben-Gewandung einen Stoff gesucht, der ein nettes Muster hat z.B. Ranken mit Blättern o.ä. Da ich nicht fündig wurde, überlege ich nun, einen dekorativen "nackten" Stoff zu nehmen, und diesen großflächig zu besticken. Ich habe zwar eine Stickmaschine (Bernette Chicago 5), aber leider ist die Motivgröße nicht all zu groß. Allerdings habe ich auch schon Leute gesehen, die mit ihrer normalen Nähmaschine quasi freihand dünne Linien auf Stoffbahnen "sticken".

Hat damit jemand Erfahrung bzw. gute Tipps für mich? Ich habe bisher nur per Hand bestickt und mit der Maschine normal genäht, bin daher also Anfänger im Nähmaschinensticken.

Hat außerdem jemand einen Tipp, wo man sich gute Inspirationen für solche großen Muster besorgen kann? Worauf sollte man da achten?

Danke schonmal für eure Unterstützung!

I saw someone doing an embroidery technique called Richelieu on what looked like a regular sewing machine, but it clearly switches from straight stitch to zigzag totally hands free. Does anyone know what kind of machine can do that? I would find it incredibly useful in my everyday sewing of crazy pants.

Just got my machine yesterday, still trying to figure everything out. How are these looking? Need to clip the threads but struggling with the color of material showing through. I have rethreaded and looked at bobbin, tried to change tension it’s at a 4 but didn’t see any difference?

I got a singer futura quintet 5 in one machine off of Facebook marketplace this weekend and I have spent a few hours today trying to configure the embroidery unit. I was able to call singer support and they emailed me the software files and I ran everything in compatibility mode on my windows 11 laptop and it all seems good. The issue is I can’t seem to get the hoop to lock into the place on the unit and I can’t find a video that has this same style hoop and this embroidery unit where it actually shows how to line up the hoop in the machine so it locks. Any advice would be appreciated I think this might be a somewhat uncommon model because there’s almost nothing online with this metal bracket hoop and a unit that doesn’t screw in.

My simple process for getting a fur like texture. We could definitely get more complex with cutting the objects into smaller sections and repeating the same process.

Digitized using Ember Design.

Finally got around to sharing a before-and-after of one of my recent digitizing projects!

It’s always interesting to see how a design looks before digitizing compared to the final stitch file. Getting the details, stitch direction, and overall flow right can make a big difference in the final result.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one.

What do you think makes the biggest difference in a good digitized design stitch direction, density, or underlay?

Hey, so my mum has recently got back into embroidery/ crafting and I’m looking to put together some gifts in the £200/£300 price range! UK based if that makes a difference.
I have very little knowledge on the topic so please excuse if any of this isn’t correct!! Can’t attach photos of her set up as I’m sure she’s in this group haha - but she has a good organisation system already (like wall mounted thread holders). She’s embroidered for well over 10 years so has a lot of essential items. Also sews too.

I think she has the Brother Innov-is 700E and recently got a Scan N Cut (not sure which model). She has a fairly large Gunold thread collection. Makes a lot of home decor and appliqué.

What items would be most valuable to receive? More hoops, backing material, fabrics/felt, threads? Or accessories like good quality scissors, needles etc?
Anything you think is good for someone starting out with the Scan n cut?
Any inspo for what you’d want to add to your collection would be appreciated ☺️ TIA

Hello!

I am very new to machine embroidery, but I’m finding that everything I do is turning out pretty sad looking. I ran a test of different fonts today and none of them look anything like what they do in embrilliance. I haven’t touched any tensions on my machine, but I did start with a fresh bobbin and spool of thread. The sweatshirt had cut away stabilizer and a water soluble topper (idk if I even need it, but I thought it couldn’t hurt.). I’m using a ball point 75/11 needle. It wasn’t a brand new needle, but I only started using it yesterday.

Any ideas what is going wrong?

Hi everyone! I’ve been wanting to get into embroidery for the last year or so and finally pulled the plug! It’s just arrived and I have a question. I ordered a brother PE900 and received a brother SE2000. Not sure how that happened, but I ordered from Walmart. There’s a bit of a price difference between the two… should I keep the SE2000 or go with my original PE900?

What needle brand do you recommend? I have been using the 11/75 organ and have gone through so many because they keep breaking. Are they sewing needles?
I’ve tried everything including changing the stabilizers.

So please give me your best recommendations. I have a brother pe900.

I have the printer, I have the skill, just curious if anyone's ever done it before.

does the brother se2000 ever go on any kind of sale!!? really interested and have been waiting but it always seems to be excluded:(

This is one of my first wearable projects. My digitizing could use some help but we’re not here for that! I’ve had zero issue with basting spray so far and this shirt was fine until it was washed. I used 505 basting spray, the shirt is under armor 100% polyester, and i used cut away + floated shirt + 505 + wash away. I believe the person who washed the shirt washed/dried it on hot. I sprayed evenly front and back so I don’t know why the stains are smaller on the back. Does this look like a basting spray issue and if so can I fix it? TIA for the help!

Hello guys as the title suggests I purchased a sewtech st-1501 as my first machine. I have no prior experience on embroidery but I got really interested in starting a business for the last year and I pulled the trigger on it. Does anyone have experience with this machine and this company? Support has been pretty good so far they even gifted me two Maggie hoops along with the machine

I tried rethreading and changing the needle and bobbin and I continuously get this birds nest and loose stitches along the basting stitch for my embroidery tag. Any tips??

When I checked basic sewing to see if it was just an embroidery issue I noticed slight puckering.