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Embroidery Machine

There is a Brother Innov-is M330E (10×10 cm embroidery surface, custom designs via USB) in the craft room.

You should be inducted before you use it. Please see inductions.

If you are comfortable using a sewing machine, a lot of the skills and knowledge will transfer over.

Here is an introduction to machine embroidery:

…and some examples of what can be made on such a machine:

Manuals

Manuals are good, actually. For the M33E we have:

You should read the operation manual.

Use

You should know how a sewing machine works, and hopefully have used one. There is a great video explanation by Tim Hunkin (shorter version)

To use the embroidery machine, you should know how to:

You should be able to consider:

To run a machine embroidery, follow the steps from the operation manual:

Step # Aim Action Page
1 Checking the needle Use needle 75/11 for embroidery 24
2 Embroidery unit attachment Attach the embroidery unit. 25
3 Bobbin thread setup For the bobbin thread, wind embroidery bobbin thread and set it in place 17
4 Fabric preparation Attach a stabilizer material to the fabric, and hoop it in the embroidery frame. 27
5 Embroidery frame attachment Attach the embroidery frame to the embroidery unit. 29
6 Pattern selection Select an embroidery pattern. 30
7 Checking the layout Check and adjust the size and position of the embroidery. 32
8 Embroidery thread setup Set up embroidery thread according to pattern. 33

Making custom designs

You can make any SVG into an embroidery pattern, using Ink/Stitch, an Inkscape extension. You want to use the Brother 

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filetype.

Please read:

You can make a PNG into an SVG using Inkscape's trace bitmap function, e.g.,

PNG SVG

To make patches, have a look at:

How to

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