Freddie

I have the PE770and love it. It indeed has the 5x7 hoop and I have the 5x10 as well. You should know that the 5x10 is only for saving time and ease of rehooping. It will not take the 5x10 embroidery file. As you probably already know too, is that the PE770 is embroidery only. Uses PES designs or DST. It is not a high end machine, with the cost around $700.00? However, it is treating me well.

snowyquilter

Hello, I am new to this site and was thrilled to see other people love embroidering also. I have a Brother Innovis 1500D. I love the machine even though I don't know what I am doing most of the time. My hubby got the machine for me a year ago as a present. He knew I really wanted to start quilting and also liked the embroidery capabilities. I have not made a quilt yet but have done some embroidering. For me, I started learning how to embroider before learning how to do anything else on the machine because I don't actually know how to sew (I am pretty sure the machine is smarter than I am.) I figured the embroidery function was perfect since it basically does all the work. I hope to start quilting soon but I do not have anywhere to set up my machine except my dining room table and am nervous about leaving it there since my 4 month old son is learning to crawl (he can crawl about 6 inches and then falls down) and I am so afraid I am going to drop a needle or pin and not notice and he will find it.

The one thing I don't really understand about embroidering is how to know what stabilizer to use. It seems like there are so many. Most of the things I have embroidered (mostly small wall decorations for my son's nursery) are ok, but there are obviously mistakes in the pattern and I think it is because the fabric is either not staying where it should in the hoop (maybe not tight enough) or that I am not using the right stabilizer. The designs I made were very dense. They were from Anita Goodesign. Does anyone have any basic rules of thumb they use to know what stabilizer to use? I am using mostly 100% cotton fabric from the quilting section of Joannes. Thanks so much for the help. I really love this site and am so glad I found it. I am dying to find a babyproof place to put my machine so I can start quilting.

babyboomerquilter

I have The Singer Futura and so far,for embroidery, I still am in the learning process. It is very addicting and I love it! There is a group you can join on Yahoo. I belong to it and there is soooo much you can learn from there and ask questions. It is called Futua Embroidery group. Just log on to yahoo search bar, real easy to find.

scrappy2

I have a Jamone 9700 4x4 & 5x7 hoops. I mostly put designs on my G-kids shirts. Play food for G-daughter and right now I'm making small draw string bags with a toothfairy & G-kids names on them ( 3 out of 4 G-kids are starting to loose their front teeth)

I love the idea of being able to talk machine embroidery. To be able to see that everyone is working on and somepalce to go for help!!!

MaggieBB

I have a new slnger futura XL-500,I got it about 6 months ago the extenison is.xxx, although it can read .dst there is anative hormat if you are using software to digatize but I don't remember it as I use another program to digitize.

annies-best

congrats on All
just for a general rule of thumb i use a stabilazer to match the weight of the fabric on a really dense design I would use 2 one under and a wash away on top if you are going to leave it on the wall i would use a cut away and not cut it just leave it on a tear away is great for simple projects but because it does tear easy i would not use it for the kind of projects you are doing.
good luck and have fun

TanyaL

LindaR, I would use as many layers of wash away stabilzer as needed. Sometimes I have best results using light weight, but as many as 6 layers.I know you won't b e washing these but you can dissolve the wash away with spraying on water.

Bevsie

Hi,

I just saw this thread tonight...where have I been! LOL

I have a Babylock Elegante2 and a Babylock Ellure embroidery machine, I use the Elegante mostly for my embroidery.

The past month I have been embroidering Mr. Crazy Legs snowman, have done 7 of them, and did post a picture last week.
This week I am starting an in the hoop quilt...I am going to a Babylock Embroidery Retreat at the end of the month and we are creating an in the hoop quilt. I have to have 16 embroidered blocks done by then, but think I am going to do a redwork type Jacobean flower as my fabric is pretty busy.
Embroidering is such fun!
Bev

Narda

I had a Janome 10000 and loved it I now have the 11000. there is a free upgrade on the Janome site to upgrade it to a 10001 if your interested in getting it...I forget what extra it did.

romanojg

if you go to emblibrary.com they have a whole section on the stabilizers and the differences. I think Viking also has it on their site. If you google I'm sure you'll find lots of tutorials that will help you out. The emb site has lots of projects and even though I don't do alot of the projects by looking at how they do it and the supplies they use it gives me more of an idea of what I need to use and do. I'm also new to embroidery.