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!
