October 16th, 2011, 08:30 PM
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Re: How Tough Is It To Learn Embroidery
I learned on an old Toyota 850 that I bought used from eBay. No training. But I had a very small budget. Before I bought though, I went to the ISS trade show in Long Beach. I took three days of seminars, one full day of hands on training class. Actual hands on was only 10 minutes. class was too big. However, I asked a zillion questions and checked all the forums before doing anything. I checked with other embroidery people all the time (still do). I haven't even tried doing any digitizing. I send that to my digitizer I found online through eBay. His company is Embrostitch. Fantastic digitizer, and good prices. I got lucky there. The machine was very easy to learn. The main thing you need to watch is your tension. I was a printer for 25 years and when printing, the same thing applied. watch the tension. And as Nametags put it. a great design digitized badly, will be a nightmare. Case in point. My first job was for a friend that has a martial arts fightwear clothing line. He wanted his logo on hats. I had already practiced on hats and had no problem doing it. I sent the design out and it came back with 27 trims on a three color job that was only 2 inches by 2 inches. I could not get it to sew. My friend was just telling me, no, it's just your inexperience. So just to prove him wrong. I sent the design to Strawberry Stitch. A tad bit expensive for this design, but I knew they would do it correctly. I got the same design back with the same size of 2 inches by 2 inches three colors and only 4 trims. It sewed out perfectly. He never gave me any more complaints about the price of digitizing. And I have never had to pay that much again for a much larger design. The design I was talking about is shown on this cap
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