I’m using a 4x4 magnetic hoop with mesh cutaway stabilizer, stretchy jersey cotton, and clear wash away stabilizer on top. This is the design I’m seeing in embrilliance, but when it stitches out (with and without hidden stitches removed) the A’s look like they’re missing a stitch where they connect on the left side, and with the darker thread it looks like my backstitches are crooked. Looking for pointers to fix this. I was thinking I will try a traditional hoop with the cutaway mesh hooped and float the fabric and wash away and use a basting stitch, but I’m not sure what else I should change that might make an improvement.

I told my friend I would make her a Lizzie McGuire shirt for a Hillary Duff concert. I’m so new to embroidering so I did a trial run on the design I bought from Etsy. How do I make her face look less distorted? Any tips would be so helpful 😭 I have the Brother se600

Just bought an embroidery machine second hand - Janome Memory Craft 350e - and decided to make life difficult and design my own motif as someone who has never ever even used an embroidery machine before. Turned out quite well though if I do say so myself. I downloaded inkscape/inkstitch and used a picture of my doggo to draw out my design.

I thought id share the new stitch outs after ive made adjustments.

1.increased gradient percentage of the secondary gradient color and rotated it clockwise roughly 20°

1. Added 1.5mm border

3.changed out the black for purple.

Enjoying the brighter colors, I used a lavender as the secondary for the yellow ring pop. The yellow completely nullified it. So it mostly looks yellow which wasn't the intention.

What do you think? What color combos should I try next?

Is there a basic software that is free or very low cost? I limped along with 5D for more years than I thought I could, but the machine is not starting now. I tried to install on my next oldest computer (5 years old), but it won’t work. Any online suggestions? I see a few choices. What do folks suggest. I only need it for getting my designs to the thumb drive and for making text labels for quilts.

Im typing out a name using the preinstalled university font in essentials. I want the name on the far right side of the hoop but every time I save it and reopen the .pes the name is recentered. It does save the correct positioning on the working file. I do not want to move it once it is sent to my machine as I feel like the measuring will be off. I’m new, so Thank you for any help!

Can I use such a large spool with my machine? If so, how? 😁