I came home from my lovely, relaxing Spa Break to a delivery of polo shirts that needed to have a company logo embroidered onto them. I've done this several times before: same logo, same supplier of polo shirts, so I started the first one - the tension on the top thread was awful. I re-threaded both thread and bobbin - no improvement, so I went and got the old machine out of the shed and used that for the next few shirts, meanwhile I tried another design on the newer machine. The first 100 or so stitches were still far too loose, then, suddenly, it sorted it's life out and worked fine.
I tried a few more projects on the new machine until I was convinced it was behaving and then started on the polo shirts again. Well i didn't get a photo of the first problem, but the second problem it decided to throw as me involved a bird's nest under the race which meant I needed to cut the shirt to release it from the nest!
Not impressed!
However - far more fun was the testing project.
Victoria from Boutique Uniquely has some great pins on her Pinterest boards, including some felt citrus coasters. I thought they looked great and would be quick to stitch using the embroidery machine. So in order to test the machine I stitched up seven of these: orange, grapefruit, lime and lemon. These the machine liked making, the polo shirts, not so much!
I like those!!!
ReplyDeleteVery cute! Hope you get the problem worked out. That must be so frustrating!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the fruit and have come to follow you! Janine
ReplyDeleteThose turned out so so cute! I love them.
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