Are You Making These Machine Embroidery Mistakes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ค. 2024
- I’ll show you ALL kinds of problems that happen with machine embroidery and how you can fix them yourself. Learn how to troubleshoot and fix your machine embroidery problems with 11 different mistakes in the sections below.
This is the last video in the “Machine Embroidery for Beginners” Series.
Chapters or Sections in this video:
00:00 Intro
01:46 Puckers & Wrinkles
06:19 Thread Shredding or Breaking
09:20 Broken Needles
12:06 Birdnesting, Tangles and Knots
15:46 Loopy Stitches
16:42 Jamming or Won’t Stitch
17:34 Registration or Outline Errors
22:10 Tension Problems
25:10 Skipped Stitches
26:38 Flagging or Hoop jumping
27:08 Sinking Stitches
28:11 Good Examples
30:06 Where to Find Help
31:38 Wrap-Up
The entire beginner series is available for free on TH-cam::
1 - Starter Supplies • Machine Embroidery for...
2 - Get to Hoopin’ • Machine Embroidery for...
3 - Start Stitching' • Machine Embroidery for...
4 - Get Into Position • Machine Embroidery for...
5 - All About Threads • Machine Embroidery for...
6 - All About Stabilizers • Beginner Machine Embro...
7 - All About Designs • Machine Embroidery for...
8 - Mother Puckers and other problems (THIS video!)
I create and sell my own Embroidery Designs. My specialty is in-the-hoop dolls and puppets.
www.BallyhooCreations.com ←my website
Members at SkillShare can take my project based classes. Howare SkillShare classes different than the TH-cam videos? My SkillShare classes include free designs that I teach you how to stitch along with key skills, then you can post your project and get personalized feedback so you can continue to learn and improve your skills…
www.skillshare.com/r/user/bal... ←SkillShare classes
(full disclosure-If you sign up for a SkillShare membership they pay me a bounty. All that being said, I’m a member there myself and love the SkillShare community.)
Thanks for watching and happy stitching! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Thank you for helpful information
Thank you, so very helpful.
Glad I found your channel
Welcome aboard!
Thank you! One of the best help vids I’ve seen. No waffling, no selling stuff, just decent info from someone who has been there. And it did help that you had a Viking machine 😉 I love mine, but it does give me grief if I get impatient. The best advice you gave… slow down! Works across ALL my embroidery machines. Came looking for info on a specific issue (bobbin tension)…stayed, learned, and subscribed. Thanks again!
Welcome to the channel! I hope you'll stick around while I create some new content for the summer months. 😁
Amazingly helpful video. Thank you
You're very welcome!
Thanks so much!
Thank you for this. I happened to watch this earlier today and this afternoon my machine started acting up. After rethreading everything didn’t fix the problem, I put oil on a q-tip and cleaned in and around the bobbin case. Problem solved! I was back in business. 😄
This is the best troubleshooting video on machine embroidery I have seen. Thank you so much!
Wow, thanks!
Awesome video, Thanks
Thanks so much, love the way you set this up with "Chapters". Extremely helpful information.
I watched many videos on how to troubleshoot machine embroidery issues… and your video is by far the best and most detailed and inclusive that I have seen. Thank you! 💕
Very helpful for all
Great video with tips and tricks
❤ wish I’d seen this many years ago when I first started out. Great for newbies as well as us oldies lol thank you x
I've never seen the t-pin tip for stabilizing. Good call. I also love the tension test. I will recommend you to more folks. Really clear and concise.
Thanks will try.
Awesome video, new to embroidery
Thanks so much! Very helpful. So glad I finally found you!
I appreciate you so much, both your expertise and your sense of humor :-)
I just discovered your channel on TH-cam. You're a godsend. I'm taking classes for my new sewing embroidery machine. Needless to say, you're going to be my new Go-to person from now on when I have a problem.
Glad you're finding the videos helpful! Happy Stitching!
I don't embroider, but had to come here and thank you for the giggle.
You never mentioned using a single hole needle plate. I have found that helps a lot. Thank you, I learned a few tips . Lucille
Great tip, thanks for adding it!
Thank you!!!
This video was completely life changing. I didn’t ever put my thread under the foot after threading the needle. I was about to throw my machine away. Since watching your vid, I haven’t had a single problem. I fell in love with embroidery and today I just bought a Viking ❤ thank you for your amazing tips.
Happy to hear this video helped! Enjoy your new Viking. :-)
This video just helped with 3 of my issues. Thank you ❤ seriously thank you ❤🎉
Thank you SO much for putting this video together. I’ve watched your entire series and I’ve been waiting for this one for months! So thanks again!!!
Glad you liked it Kelly. I'm sorry it took so long and THANK YOU for your patience.
Best help i have received since I purchased my machines
This was a great video! Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video you showed me somethings that I didn’t know and I have sewed for 40 years or 50 years I have made my own clothes as well as my kids clothes and have now started on great grandchildrens clothes and blankets with embroidery machine for the last 20 years you gave me a lot of hints that is really going to help me and I share this video with my daughter so she can use soee of the things for her own grand kids.
Thanks Sandra. Machine embroidery is one of those things that changes and it's hard to keep up with the ever-changing advice. Welcome to the channel!
Thank you so much! You have made sense out of my confusion. ❤
Excellent video. Now I have to check out the beginner embroidery series. Thank you
That pin trick is genius!
Thank you for all the info. Keep on making them, you did a great job.
Wonderful information!!! Thank you so much! 🎉❤😊
Hi Lucy, I have a combo Brothers sew/embroidery machine. I have been so afraid to tackle the embroidery function ie as you said flying needles, jams that will prevent me from using even the sewing but what I learned this week when I was trashing Coats & Clark thread is that it's not necessarily the thread but the weight choice. You are sooo right that my bobbin weight is 60. I can use 30-60 at the top but nothing but 60 in bobbin. I read the manual a 2nd time & duh, that's why I had looping in underside. I do agree thread conditioner can help smooth thread & even seems to reduce lint build up. I think my goal in the new year is to just embroid-do it. Thanks for tips. This vid was awesome & I subscribed to your channel.
God Bless! Happy Holidays too. 🎄🫶
Thanks!
Great review for problem resolutions.
Im so thankful for this video!
Loved your video! Very helpful! Thank you!
You are incredible. Thank you so much for sharing all of your experiences. I learned more from you than I did in the classes I took that cost me money.
That's great to hear! Embroidery is kinda hard but it gets easier as you go. happy stitching!
Thank you so much for all the information. You video is well done and easy to understand.
This is fantastic. Thank you so much!!!
This is a wonderful resource! Thank you!!!🥰🙏
your GOOD Thank YOU SO MUCH
You're welcome!
Wow!!! Thank you thank you!!! I subscribed and shared this with a friend.
I’ve been embroidering for a few years now and you answered a few questions I have had! Thank you!🥰
Thanks for sharing this video I learned so much as a new Embroider .
Great information! Thank you.
Many useful tips & tricks... Thank u forr sharing..🙏
Excellent video! Thank you.
This series is fantastic!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much! Life saver
Glad it helped!
Great information! Thank you
I am a newbie and what a blessing for me to find your video. By far the best one I have seen. My biggest fear is what to do when something goes wrong. You are a wealth of knowledge and you have given me the push I need to overcome the fear or at least have hope that I can manage any trouble that might happen. Thank you so much. I will watch every single video you have published on embroidering. So excited.
When something goes wrong , take a deep breath. Keep in mind that others have been through mistakes and machines “acting up” etc. thread breaks, shifting , wrong stabilizer. Don’t give up. It’s so cool when things work well and the design stitches out beautifully. Just stitch on old or cheap items to start out. You embroider over a stain that would not come off a shirt you liked that you though was not wearable anymore:). I have saved a favorite linen table cloth that i ruined attempting to remove a set in stain. I had rubbed a hole in it. I was upset. To fix it. I used a small piece of iron on interfacing; then I embroidered a similar matching color flower over the area that had been damaged. I turned out great. No one knew it was a “repair” job:) good luck!
This is what I needed!!!
14:24 preventing "bobbin - backlash" ; ...will try it👍🏼
Same! So THAT's what that it's called! I can hear my bobbin rattling around in the bobbin case. I will try this too!
Update! :) I found my original accessories/supplies that came with my Brother PE800. There is a Bobbin Center Pin (spacer) that is recommended when using a pre-wound bobbin, as I do. It appears this may serve the same purpose as the small bobbin-size piece of stabilizer that Lucy mentioned in her video. I'm going to try it and hope it solves the bobbin backlash issue!
I've never heard of that accessory. Keep us posted on how well it works!
@@BallyhooCreations it didn't work (I got a little nest going underneath and none of the bobbin thread was showing on the back). I re-read the directions,... Apparently the Bobbin Center Pin is designed to compensate for pre-wound bobbins that are 9mm (my Brother OEM bobbins are 11.5mm) Size L (?) . FYI, this accessory was only mentioned in the Brother Quick reference guide, not in the Operation Manual. I couldn't find any info on it on the Brother website (when I entered PE800 machine). Part # is XF5048-001. According to another website, this accessory "Coverts class 15 machines to accept L bobbins".
Thank you soooo much! Awesomeness!
I have to say of all the videos and series that I have watched yours, gave me more information than all the rest put together and for that I thank you. I am looking forward to learning from you in the future.
Glad to help!
Thanks
This is an excellent video!!! I have purchased several designs from your store. I have the kitty design!! Yay. Thanks again. I need to check out your video on stabilizers. I did run into some pucker issues, and the correct stabilizer addressed the issue.
Thanks! Stabilizer can make ALL the difference. Glad you figured that out! You should still watch that stabilizer video, since you might learn about different ones that open new creative opportunities 😄 There are always new ones, like a water soluble batting I bought just last month.
I feel ready to get started on my embroidery machine now I know what to look out for, thanks
(I missed the video on tension,… I don’t think it is in this playlist???)
I see you found that tension video. I don't include it in the beginner playlist because it goes deeper into tension and is really more of an intermediate/advanced level thing.
@@BallyhooCreations thank you for the great video’s. 👍🏻
I’ll have to watch the tension video again, it’s been a battle today 🫣
So much to learn, the more I play with it the worse it gets.
Have you done a video on maintenance?
@@2missteri I haven't done a maintenance video but was thinking of adding one this summer. When my machine acts up (and it does) that means it's time to give up for the day and switch to TV, or video games or wine. Whatever works that is NOT machine embroidery. Things always seem to work better the next day. 😉
@@BallyhooCreations again Great advice 👍🏻
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Hi Lucy, I am new to your channel and I can not tell you how grateful I am to you that you made these TH-cam videos for machine embroidery. I have only been machine embroidering for a short time and your videos have are so very appreciated as I have experienced just about everything that you have discussed here. Thank so much for these videos!! So well done, clear, precise and love your sense of humor!
Thank you so much!
I loved the video because of all the helpful advice. I am going to watch your videos on stabilizers too. I take classes at a quilt shop and the lady who teaches the classes says the same thing you have said. It is a great review. Thank you so much!
So now I learn, after 35+ years what caused some problems I had that I couldn't figure out or understand - and I haven't sewn anything in about 15 years. Thread my machine with the presser foot up, and no heavy duty thread on the bobbin!
Thank you!
That presser foot secret messed me up for years too! I don't know why it's not written right there on the machines but it's the same on every sewing machine, serger, or embroidery machine. Crazy, right? Thanks for watching!
Great information. I have had the bobbin backlash problem and wondered what was going on. Even thought I was hearing things! Thank you so much I learned a lot.
LOL you're not hearing things, you're just attentive! You can usually HEAR when the embroidery machine messes up long before you actually SEE it.
Wow! Great advice, well spoken and demonstrated. Thank you. First video I’ve seen of yours, anxious to see others.
Awesome, thank you! And welcome to the channel!
Thank you for you explanations on all the different issues that a person can have while embroidering. Maybe now I won't struggle with my projects.
Hi Karen! We all struggle sometimes. As long as you're struggling LESS than before - that's improvement! 😁
Very comprehensive and helpful. Thank you.
Thanks - glad it helped. Is your username derived from a 1980's video game by any chance? I loved Q-bert.
Thank you ~ this series was incredibly helpful for this newbie! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
wonderful info! Great explanations, well done, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So informative! Thank you so much!!! 🤗
Glad it was helpful!
Love your video! I've been teaching embroidery for many years and agree with almost 100% of what you say and I say the same things!
However, no Sharpie marker, please only recommend markers designed for fabric including Micron pens. Sharpie will run when it gets washed and ruin the item! Ask me how I learned that one!!! Also, in lieu of Terial which is wonderful, Heavy Spray Starch is my go-to more economical recommendation. Thanks for sharing your experience with the world on TH-cam!
Thank you for adding that info about Sharpies! Since I'm usually making dolls and puppets that don't go through the wash, I didn't think about that. I've hearted your comment so hopefully it will rise to the top and be seen by others.
Great tutorial.Answered many issues.🎉
Glad it was helpful!
Thank u for the info on the missed outline. I have a cute monkey design the outline didn't match up on. I was going to leave that part of the design off being it was the very last part of it. Now I know what I did wrong!
Excellent video! I am just over a year new to embroidery, and still feel like I just opened the machine some days :-) i am bookmarking this video is just like that! thank you😮😅
I've been embroidery for over a decade, and still have days where I the machine seems like a wild animal that's gonna bite me. We all have days like that. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Such a useful video! I’ve been having birdnesting problems and was re-threading with my presser foot down for speed…Thank you!
Glad it helped! that presser foot thing is overlooked by MOST of us!
You are an ANGEL. I have sewed since I was a kid and always wanted an embroidery machine, but when I finally got one I was so lost! This has helped me so much. I appreciate this and look forward to your other videos!
Ditto here! I've had mine for about a week and I agree with you! These videos have certainly helped relieve some newby anxiety. Are you confident now since you posted this 4 months ago?
Excellent video. Fixed a ton of problems for me. Thanks!!
Great to hear!
TY for great explanation and presentation. I'm a new subscriber and will look forward to watching more of your videos.
Welcome aboard!
Great video. Thank you so much. Diana
You are so welcome!
@@BallyhooCreations I watched several videos one after another last evening . I learned some things I never thought about. I really appreciate the way you teach. I have a Babylock Solaris 2. I’ve had it about 9 months. I love embroidery. Im perplexed by the puckering, I’m going to try your tips. My name is Diana. Im on my husbands account. Im from Southern IL. (Near St. Louis) in Greenville ILLINOIS. Thank you again . I’ll definitely watch your other videos.
Thank you so much for your videos! Some of the things you showed make a lot of sense. I did watch some other videos, but you go more into detail. I'm still learning on my 4x4 Brother embroidery machine.
You are so welcome!
Great video very helpful I had trouble with puckering but not noe after watching this ty x
Glad it helped!
Wow! Thanks for this video! I'm a novice and these tips and illustrations are so helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
This video is awesome!!! I thought it was a very helpful video. I'm new to machine embroidery and have come across a few problems. I've done a lot of research but other videos I've watched or things I have read haven't been as clearly defined or informative as your video. I have subscribed to your channel and will be checking out your other videos! Thank you for sharing!
Welcome to the channel! Machine Embroidery has a learning curve just like anything else. You'll be an expert in no time!
THANK YOU !!!! Saw every problem I've ever had! Heads up> just got my machine back from service; turns out last 2 places I took it to only vacuumed; no oil etc. Tech said he had to use professional cleaner> I'm hoping! Combined with your sage advice on stabilizer, which explained why I experience puckering. Thank you Thank you Thank you !! Now a loyal fan...
So glad the video helped, and also that you found a better technician!
I loved this video and have subscribed. I would love to join an online class. I will be watching your other videos soon. Thanks again for these wonderful tips. They helped with a lot of my problems and I wish I had seen this 20 years ago when I bought my first Husqvarna Designer machine.
Hi Anne! If that was a Husqvarna Designer 1 (or 2) then I feel your pain! I still have mine and keep it just so I can make troubleshooting videos because that machine has more problems than most! Glad this video helped you and thanks for watching!
I love your glasses! Thank you for your help…
Thanks! Glasses are from Zenni - they have some cool frames for frugal people like me. 🤣
Thank you for this video, it helps a lot. I'm currently at my wits end. I've used self adhesive stabilizer, a basting stitch and upped the pull compensation and I still cannot get my design to stitch out right. The outline is way off. :(
Keep trying different things until the outline is perfectly placed. Sometimes a poorly digitized design is the culprit and there's nothing you can do about that. Just try to buy designs that show a photo of an actual stitch-out so you can tell that at least it stitched nicely for somebody. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Thank you so much Lucy for this great series of videos - wish I'd spotted it before I started machine embroidering, especially the one on stablizers! Having fun now and have just completed a piece that I've put together from two bought designs from different sources.
Glad you enjoyed the videos Sue. You're definitely a confident stitcher if you're combining designs on your own! Let me know if there's any particular topics you'd like to see.
@@BallyhooCreations Perhaps foolhardy might be a better description than confident! I have been sewing since I was 7, some 65 years ago, and have always been a crafts person. I recently decided to upgrade my 10 year old sewing machine and bought a combination machine (Janome Atelier/Skyline 9) and thus be able to embroider which I now find difficult to do by hand. What I need to know is how to line up border designs so if you have a video on that I'd love to know. Thanks again, Sue
@@suepowditch108 Lining up designs for a border can be tricky and is not my strong suit either! But I might attempt it while I'm making some clothes this summer/fall. What type of border are you doing? Skirt? Tablecloth? Quilt?
@@BallyhooCreations I'm thinking things like table runners or table mats with fairly small border designs that would go round all four sides. I tend to make any quilts as quilt as you go because I can't physically handle big quilts any more but I might want to do embroidered borders for them. As you said, so well, in your videos, we just have to practise and be prepared to throw away what doesn't work - hard to do when you learned in the days of scrimping and scaping and not wasting anything!
Where were you when I first purchased my machine. Lol Had I known what I know now I wouldn't have a love, hate for my embroidery machine. Today I'm starting over. Thank you so much ❤. I agree with the previous person @Timothy Gaudette same scenario. You're freaking AWESOME 😗 SMUAH
Thanks Rayvetta! Comments like yours inspire me to keep making videos like these. 🥰
Thank you thank you.
You are very welcome
Great video thank you
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Thank u!!! ❤️
You're welcome!!
Just found your site. This is the best info I have ever found. And you are right about not using our machines. After spending thousands of dollars on my machine I was loathe to use it. Not much info on internet and the several books I got with it were overwhelming. Dealer was not all that helpful. Will be watching your other videos. Thanks for your help. You have a new subscriber. Forgot to ask…Do you recommend prewashing and drying 100% cotton t shirts before embroidering on them?
Welcome to the channel Merrilyn! I'm happy to help nudge you towards USING that expensive machine. Your plight is more common than people realize! And I prefer to prewash anything that shrinks before embroidering on it. I realize lots of production level companies don't do that - but when your cotton shirt shrinks but the poly thread and stabilizer doesn't - it looks ugly.
Thanks
I really appreciate your time and effort that you obviously put into this very informative video. Thank you so much. I just want to clarify one point. I was told by the repair man at my sewing centre, that when you floss your tension disc’s, to only go in the direction the thread feeds through, never back and forth!
Good pioint, and my dentist says the same thing about flossing my teeth! If you go back and forth it will just rub the gooky stuff around rather than pulling it out.
Several years ago, a breaking embroidery needle got me to emergencies (with a piece of needle).
Thanks for your videos. I just found this one, and immediately subscribed.
Ouch! You're not the first person to tell of a trip to the hospital for embroidery needles. It's a good reminder to always keep away from that speeding needle. :-)
@@BallyhooCreations Yes. I felt something hurting my middle finger, the machine stopped. I didn't understand immediately what happened until watching needle was cut. Looking for the broken part, I took off the frame and noticed my finger was touching something hard, the half needle was inside!
Good fancy content nicely done
First of all, I want to say thank you for doing this video. It is very helpful I have a brother SE 600 sewing machine. It’s a combo and there’s only one speed in the embroidery and that is fast. My machine does not have a switch that would slow the embroidery speed down, so I’m stuck going fast pace and I to have miserable time with puckering. I still can’t get it mastered and I’ve been on it for a week.
Sorry you're having issues with your new machine. There is a learning curve with any embroidery machine so keep at it until you like your results on practice fabric. The Brother SE600 has a max speed of 400 stitches per minute, so it's not fast enough to be a major cause of puckering. (400 SPM is the lowest speed on the bigger machines.) You should look to other solution. The most likely cause is thin fabric, flimsy stabilizer, incorrect tension (especially on a new machine) or improper hooping. I also have a video on hooping and stabilizers, in case you haven't seen those yet.
Also, I wish someone could go into great detail about the frame stitch patterns for patches and adding wording to them. I'm practicing on my machine
Are you referring to the frames or shapes that are often included in the embroidery machine pre-loaded design library? I haven't made patches in years but could give it a try sometime. Playing with it until you get something you like is the BEST way to learn.
very good advices ! I will definitely try the little stabilisator round under the bobbin ! I have had EVERY problem you talk about, sometimes I just ragequit.
what drives me crazy, is when there is an issue, nothing fix it, and after like 7-12 try, suddenly it works again perfectly. I'm sure embroidery machine are possessed by some kind of demons ^^
Most experienced embroiderers would agree with you. Some days are just not meant for embroidery. I've learned to walk away from my machines on those days. Usually things work better the next day.🤨 Gremlins, moon phases, I don't know - but our machines can be very weird!
@@BallyhooCreations I think it is gnomes !! :D :D
@@BallyhooCreationsOr creatures from another dimension messing with our stuff lol.
Sometimes it can also be the humidity that is causing issues.
I just noticed that the bobbins to my old embroidery machine are flatter than the bobbins for my Brother PE 800. They id give me that disc. Would that enable me to use the old bobbins for the PE800?