Hi everyone! I know the answer to my question is in here somewhere but with 172 pages and my techno disabilities, I can't find it! I have a new ( from Christmas) Jenome 350E and my bobbin thread is suddenly coming thru A LOT! i have removed and replaced both the bobbin and the thread. I am currently embroidering on denim and am using a stiff cut-away stabellizer. any ideas ??

Ha! figured it out on myown! After playing with tension over and over agaain, I just realized that I was using the upright thread prong. The (new) larger spool was not turning, forcing the thread to be dragged over the top of the spool! Using the horizontal thread prong, it sews perfectly!

I have the Singer Futura SES 2000 which I have however yesterday I went out and bought the Brother Quatto 2 6700D which is top of the line. I was looking at lesser cost machines but they all lacked one or more things I wanted it to do and found while researching that the Quattro 2 absolutely has all I was looking for and than some. It will arrive here by end of next week.

I am however still keeping my SES 2000 and will give it to my almost 11 year old grand daughter. She will have to though come here for a couple years to use it cause I simply do not trust her family and there taking it away from her and giving it to someone in her mothers family or selling it from under her. They have been known to do that over the years when I have given the kids computers, DS, and more and I'm not about to allow this to happen. She really wants this machine just like the iPad I have here that she uses when she comes over. Its sad when you can't as a kid even trust your family to take what is yours and selling it or giving it to someone else.

I started taking embroidery classes this last month to learn about the different fabrics, stabilizers, threads and needles used for various projects like doing cutwork, lace embroidery and more. I never knew there was so much to learn regarding using these materials. All I had ever seen around here were folks just hooping a piece of fabric and stitching and taking these classes I see why most of them have there pieces puckered up or worst.

My SES broke a needle today and realized the reason it did was where you put the needle that piece was loose and fell out so now I have to play with it this week to get that silly thing back on.

Had a class today and the teacher was good enough to let me use her Brother machine which is the Noviis 7000d I think it was. Actually I'm glad my machine did what it did cause it gave me a chance to play with a totally computerized machine and boy was it fun and like night and day from my SES. I still like my SES though and I still plan to use it for auto punch, cross-stitching, and photostitching once I put that piece back on and of course will use it until my Brother comes in next week.

Today we learned to do cutwork and lace work using various materials. I will upload photos of it later on. Will have to take pictures of it.

just got my new brother pe770 a few weeks back, having so much fun making lace snowflakes, icicles, reindeer and driedels. trying to get a jump on the holidays. what's your opinion on the snowflakes and reindeer as ornaments for the swap this year.
the only thing I don't like about this machine is I can't back up. if someone here knows how, please let me know. thanks

Thanks Ms. Grace my storage ideas all come from trial and error.
However I was told about those metal drawers from the saleslady
at the shop where I buy my thread, machine etc...so happy she did
because they have been the BEST thing ever for my thread.

bobbin thread out detector
 

I noticed that lately my bobin thread out detector seems to not be detecting so well! I started working on a project that at times I disable the cutting jump stitches part and since I did that my bobbin just runs out. I hate it when I've gone through an entire design without bobbin thread. For some reason, it just doesn't look quite as good as with thread :)

My machine is a Brother Quattro 6000D.
I've resent everything numerous times, turned it off and on, and it still doesn't detect.
Any ideas - anyone?

TIA,
Jane

I have actually been using my machine for regular sewing and the bobbin empty detector is working. Hmmmm! I will try another embroidery and see what happens.

Sometimes the bobbin alert on my Topaz 30 does not work. I usually find that the bobbin area needs to be cleaned out of lint etc. Don't know if that would be your problem, but since it works on regular sewing, probably not.

Got my Brother Quanttro 2 in today so will be busy in next few days getting familiar with it. So much stuff. I am really impressed so far and haven't even turned the machine on yet.

Lynnie,
Sending you a PM with my phone number. I could have told you in person on Tuesday, but someone who shall remain nameless forgot to tell me about lunch.
Krystyna

You're too funny! Just think how impressed you'll be once you turn it on!

clsurz,
CONGRATS on your new machine! Can't wait to see what your first embroider will be!

Yes, you can go to previous spot. Right now I am at the other site of the country from where I live, so no PE770 here for me. However, I am going to try to answer by memory. Stop the machine and go to where you can see the different colors for each section. You will see where you go forward to the next section or where it shows plus and minus thread??? Now I am getting a little off. Anyways, the one that has the needle will go forward or backwards where you want to go. That is important when your thread breaks, because it does not stop always at the right moment, so you have to backtrack. Hope that is what you mean. Have fun with yours, I miss mine already. Only 2 more months, before I can use my baby again.

<-- fighting the tears
 

Yes I finally turned it on. That baby hums away very nicely. I am extremely impressed with how the projects turn out. I've been playing with it to get familiar with the functions of the machine and love it but than again I'm a quick study so it doesn't take me long to learn things.

Are we allowed to post photos here of what we make or I should say our machines make? :-)

I would love to see what you made. I believe I have posted on this thread the things I have made with my machine.

By all means YES post pictures we LOVE to see what is being made.

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I started taking embroidery classes this last month to learn about the different fabrics, stabilizers, threads and needles used for various projects like doing cutwork, lace embroidery and more. I never knew there was so much to learn regarding using these materials. All I had ever seen around here were folks just hooping a piece of fabric and stitching and taking these classes I see why most of them have there pieces puckered up or worst.

Today we learned to do cutwork and lace work using various materials. I will upload photos of it later on. Will have to take pictures of it.
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I so agree that there are tons of things to learn and I guess that's why I like embroidery so much. One day, I will get a big stand alone. Floriani has a great workbook on stabilizers that goes over each one. I found alot of short cuts to help keep the cost down, which helps me enjoy it more and still produce great items.

Love, love, love cutwork. My Viking has the cutting needles and it sure makes it easier than when I first learned how to do cutwork and you had to cut the sections out by hand. Love doing lace as well. It took me a while to figure out how to do it using the spools of serger thread. I had tons of it and its so much cheaper and for lace I normaly don't care about the sheen you get from rayon. Now I love doing the lace so much more because I can afford it easier and without the frustrations that I had when I first started using the serger thread. Good luck on your new machine.

I haven't tried cutwork yet but have collected lots of patterns. One of these days. I have to stop collecting at Cute Embroidery. Toooooo many!

Has anyone taken the Floriani classes? My husband and I are going to one at the end of the month. Hope it's not a waste of time and money.

I'll be going to my second one in Sept. I went to the one last yr and I'd heard mixed reviews on it but I figured for 39 and you got 500 if freebees it was a no brainer. This yr its 49 and 599 in free thread, designs, stabilziers, etc. You learn so much and take your check book because you have the opportunity to get some great deals as well. I jumped at the chance to go again this yr. Lots of information there so that's why I'm going again this yr. Have fun. I hope this is the one you are talking about; if so it's worth it.

Here's the package - $49 includes lunch and an embroidery gift package valued at $599
Both hubby and I are going since he helps me with a lot of the embroidery work for my business ... so we're getting doubles on the designs but I think he'll have fun learning.

I wish they would have one of the Floriani seminars here in the Denver
area. I would attend it at any cost (almost), but $49 is a great deal.

Last time I seen the Floriani classes in CO was last year and they were
way up north (that is what we call any area north of Denver) they were
in Ft. Collins & Greeley both of which is over an hour from me, and I HATE
driving on the interstate (nerves are shot by the time I get there).

You might be getting double he designs but you are also getting double the thread and stabilizer; what a deal on both. It's a great class and to get 599 of free things, isn't it worth taking a chance at not learning anything. They have new stuff out this yr to introduce so I'm excited about that and more free stuff too. I'll admit it.

where is this located ???

I see on Floriani website there is one in Aurora in August. Is that near you?

There is one in June in San Marcos, CA. That is a couple of hours from where I live. I think I'll go.

I have an Ult2001 Brother EM.

its big here in Canada also all the quilt stores are having them I signed up for one in sept can`t believe its the same price as us includes catered lunch! Gale

Ours is Chesapeake on one day and the next day is in Newport News. Its a great class if you are close enough to attend. I can see where else they are going if you want; they normally have it listed. The good thing about them and John Deer, once you go then you'll get emails letting you know where all they are going, especially when it's in your area.

Yes I discovered the Aurora date when I went to the Floriani website
yesterday.
Last time I had checked the website which was a few months ago
there was no CO locations listed.

I sent Above & Beyond Sewing an email inquiring about sign ups.
Even put it in my calendar for a weekly reminder to check sign up status.

Now to just save up my money so I can attend.

I too checked out the web site and its coming here to Naples FL for $40 however it is for the embroidery AND quilting one. I'll be registered for this soon since its only 30 mins away for me and I"ll take the day off for it as well!

Lets see if this works
 

I have an Esante 2 . I've digitized over a thousand designs, all kinds from cartoons to baseball etc. I haven't reallly done much in the last couple of months because I been quilting. I will get back to it. I was just saying yesterday that I need to go to the library and look for some more flower designs to do.
Syl

I can't say I have the answer for you, but I did have the same experience yesterday. I tried saving the design as a PEC file which worked. Then when I opened the file I resaved it as a PES which also worked. Don't know why, but it did.

Just to let you all know misty mountain is going out of business. They are running a 70% off all designs check them out. http://mistymtemb.com/designs.aspx?id=all

I will be going to my second Floriani class in June in San Marcos. I really enjoyed the first one that I went to to last year.

Question - today I looked at two brands of embroidery only machines. The Baby Lock Spirit and the Brother Innov-is VE2200 are basically the same machine. They do the same things and look almost identical. The Brother is a few hundred dollars less. I am interested in any input you may have on the machines. Thank you

Babylocks are made by Brother to Babylocks specs. Unless you can see a difference there probably isn't any. The programmed patterns might be different but that is probably all.

Singer Sewer, I own the Babylock Spirit and just love it. Yes it is more costly than the Brother one and yes Babylock does also the Brother machines. I would suggest that you test each out. If it is a matter of finances I'd go with the Brother. I got my Babylock Spirit at a "baby shower" in a lqs and got a great deal on it since I traded in my Babylock Ellure plus and she gave me a wonderful price. Good luck on your decision, its what your happy with!

I have a Viking Diamond that took me 3 years to get around to opening the embroidery unit, now everything gets embroidered!
I made 22 custom golf towels for my husbands annual golf trip and a quilt for the baby of someone dear to me. I am currently working on about a dozen other projects.

I started off two yrs ago with the Ruby and then this past yr traded it in for the Diamond Deluxe. I love both machines. They make embroidery so easy and even though in between the buying of each machine I did get the 5D Pro Plus, the organizer that comes with the machine really makes life great. I love the option to remove jump option and I live it better in the Stitch Editor Plus with the full version but you can do it with just the organizer that comes with the machine. Good luck and enoy