Eeyore's Tiara
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2006
(hee-hee) Uh, no....Just that ROBOT's aren't supposed to make mistakes. Especially expensive disney robots who should know better. Maybe I LIKED the red lipstick and white tongue on Minnie.
Yeah, okay, if you say so......
If you liked my embroidery skills, wait until you see my sewing....
That's what I tell my kids anyway! DS has me in stitches when he was telling the lady cutting fabric that I liked to sew but I wasn't very good because it took me "like a whole week" to finish a project. I thought I was doing pretty good!
My daughter looked at me and said, Mom, that looks homemade. I got my feelings hurt. And I said, okay, you don't have to wear them, and she said, But mom, I love my outfits.
I'm sitting here wondering what happened to some of the designs..I have the same machine. Did you change bobbin thread as you went, or have the tension too tight? I use white as my bobbin color, and make sure it's full before you begin the design. Once it starts, I don't remove the hoop from the machine, just change the color. Also make sure your tension is loose enough that it's not pulling, around a 4 or 5 is good, and also use good embroidery thread. There's my 2 cents. Oh yeah, a good iron on stabilizer is key also..and get the hoop nice and tight...
I use the white thread in my bobbin and I dont change the bobbin while I'm embroidering. I keep the tension at about 4, and I use the coats/clark emb. thread. So, it may be the stabilizer. I am now on my 4th stabilizer. I did have a problem witht the iron on ones gumming up the needle. I try to get my hoop tight, so it might be the machine. I'm glad there are people with your experience to ask.
I'm sorry, but I can't. As part of our transaction I promised the seller that I would not. I will email the seller and then if she agrees I will pm you her id and you can contact her to see if she'd sell it to you. She set up a custom package for me in which she included the pattern and the materials to make two of the shirts. She sells the shirts in her ebay store, so I can understand why she doesn't want the pattern passed around.
Okay, very understandable! Can you pm me with the seller's id please?
I am sure it is the stablizer. What i did to start off was to use felt and make sure it is in the hoop TIGHT< TIGHT, TIGHT! So tight that it is impossible to get the hoop together pretty much. That was my practice, with felt, I didn't need a stablizer. After that I had bought tons of different types, now I like best one sold by the yard at walmart, it is thicker and Does NOT iron on or stick on. I just put it in the hoop with the shirt or whatever. it is almost felt like.
I joined a yahoo group when I got my machine in 2002, it was so helpful but has died out. Search disney brother machine though, they were oh so helpful in times like this. Towels do well too. I don't like doing tshirts much, especially cheap ones, they stretch too easily aren't that thick. Try a jerzee brand sweatshirt from walmart, those do well. Towels are fun too, or blankets. Once you get the hand of it the shirts will look better though.
So the stabilizer you used had no iron on stuff on it at all and was like felt? Okay! I will go back to walmart and see if I can find some like that and try it. I did monogram on towels, so iI know t does work on the non disney designs. So off to buy stabilizer! Thank you!
hmmm am I the only one who feels like they will have more outfits than there are days in the parks?
Uh, NO!