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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Tell me about it. Is it easy? Which machine do you like best? I see a Brother machine that isn't expensive on Amazon. I'd only want it to make simple embroidery on shirts for me and my family, but don't want to spend the money if it's difficult to work, etc. |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I know some of the regular sewing machines will do embroidery. You can buy additional software and such to make them sew what you want. I only know because a friend of mine does it. That's about all I know about embroidery.
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| Have have a Bernina that embroiders. Really haven't used it a lot because I have not had time. Mine hooks up to my laptop. I do more regular sewing on it. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Brother makes good stuff... |
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Location: In my own world | I had a Viking that did embroidery. It is fun but requires a lot of patience IMO. I did stuff on shirts, polos, hoodies windbreakers etc. to ne
honest I woukd find someone to do it for you. Unless you do it regularly. Some take special software and stuff to do it and it can be expensive. Not sure if that's the case with the exact one you are looking at. |
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| I have a Brother with embroidery, honestly, have only used it a few times. Since the machine only holds 1 bobbin of thread, you have to change it out for every color if there are multiple colors in the embroidery. Mine only does a small area I think it's 4x4 inches. I thought I would love using it but haven't really gotten motivated about it. It is preprogrammed with about 200 selections and you can plug it into your USB on your computer to download more. It sews nicely and is easy enough to use. It would probably be great for things for personal use that are small and limited. If you wanted to do larger more complicated things, multiple embroideries, or large sizes, I would look at a machine that is dedicated just to embroidery so you can have several colors of bobbins, a large embroidery area and it does the whole job in one effort. |
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| Most of those less expensive machines just do a small area. |
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| I have 2 brother machines that do embroidery, 1 is just an embroidery machine the other is a sewing and embroidery. I love love love love my embroidery machines you can do so many fun projects on them when I first got the machines I didn't even realize half the stuff you can do with them. There is a learning curve with figuring them out and finding the sweet spot with your tension, but once you get your machine figured out its a lot of fun. Check the max hoop size the machine can handle, having a small embroidery area really limits you so go for the largest hoop capacity you can afford I would recommend going bigger then 4"x4" you really can't do much in a hoop that size and you will regret not going bigger very quickly. Having to switch the tread colors manually isn't that big of pain and if your tension is set properly you can just use a white Bobbin thread for the whole project. I find with all my brother machines (I have a few of them and am loyal to the brand) that sometimes by bobbins don't wind perfectly clean and tight and it can really mess with my embroidery making it look like a tension issue, so if you go with a brother keep that in mind it will save you a lot of frustration. All and all it's a lot of fun, brother machines are very user friendly and not difficult at all watch some YouTube videos to learn the little tricks of the trade and you'll love it. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Thanks for all of the replies. I appreciate them :) |
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