Their designs are very dense. If you have embroidery software, you can do what I do and that is to enlarge the designs by about 10%. I have the software keep the same number of stitches, but make the design larger, thereby reducing the density enough that it stitches out much, much better.

Wow, glad to hear I'm not the only one who has had broken needles! I thought maybe it was something I was doing wrong. I never thought about it being the design. I have bought their designs and have broken a couple of needles. hmmmm Maybe we should email them. I did slow down my speed which did help some, but I still had it happen. Check out smartneedle.com too as they have awesome designs too!

Hi,

I have a Babylock Elegante2 and I use Emb. Library designs all the time and have never had any trouble with them at all.
I do have Density Works, but seldom use it on Emb Library designs, but Dakota and Amazing Designs I do.
If you increase the size a big that reduces some of the density in the designs, too.
I just use a medium weight cut away or a tear away on my embroidery, depending on design and fabric.
Good luck!

Bev

I've bought their designs for years, but realize that I need to look at the number of stitches compared to the size of the design, as well as the fabric I'll be embroidering. They have many wonderful designs that are less dense, and those are the ones I most frequently purchase. I attended a workshop from a well known stabilizer manufacturer, and learned that one sheet of stabilizer successfully handles approximately 10,000 - 12,000 stitches. So, when doing more dense designs, hoop or float another piece of stabilizer (up to 3 sheets; after that it doesn't make a difference). I've also found that the brand of stabilizer makes a difference. You might try another brand on the dense designs and see if that helps.

Thank you everyone for your input! I have really been struggling with this.And I am getting some ideas here. And so glad to know I'm not the only one breaking needles.
Tammy

Depend on the materials that u r using,,,, and size needles ,,I have found that different size needle are use for different fabrics,,also sometime there can be a little dust or threads found in the threader where you thread your machine and in the bobbins case have to be blow out often after each use,,, then the staberlizer that you use, if using the sticky they tend to cause the gum from the glue to stick to your needle while sewing and that catches the threads from bobbins and mess up the designs,,,, using wss sometime have to double while sewing ect,, and sometime when the fabrics is not taunt enough in the hoops is causes the designs to dense up.... also another things is the threads size and quality of it make a different but as for the racket you hear on your machine could be needle bent or position not set properly,,or timer could be off,,,, I have learn to call my dealer on many occasion with minors details ,,Own Babylock ese2 Babylock Elegante , 3 Treadle Singer,, And a Singer in a case that not have been classfied (don`t know what it is but pretty)and serveral more... But call your dealer or go onlines you shouldn`t be haven`t this much of a an headache hun.....God Bless Ya,,,, ( not a know it all just learns as I go) hope this help sweetie

do most of my emb. from their site and have never had a problem with their product. I have a Designer 1 and it goes beautifully. Have your machine checked for any minor problems, use the correct stabilizer, needles and it should be just fine.

If you have a program for embroidery, I have 4D by Husqvarna and in stitch editor you can change the density from heavy to light. I believe any embroidery program should have this feature.

If you have the software, minimize the stitch count of the design before you save it to your flash drive or emb machine. I did not know this until recently, had a sweatshirt jacket I took to class and the design was so dense it was bowed upwards. The instructor took me to her computer (we have the same software which for me is 5D, 4D will also do this and many others), you go to Modify and then tell it to use the least amount of stitches possible. In this particular design it took out over 3,000 stitches!!! The design did not look a bit different except it was not bullet proof like before. Hope this helps someone, it sure helped me. And Thank You Roni from Sew What's New in El Paso and Las Cruces!

I had a similar problem with the needles breaking with my Brother and after several hours my repairman and I found the problem. Depending on the underlayment quality and stitch density of the pattern you simply cannot enlarge/ resize some embroidery patterns without running into this problem. This was the first time in over 40 years my repairman had run into this problem and he said it has to do with the fact that a lot of the designs are now auto digitized which creates inferior designs and resizing problems. You didn't say whether or not you had changed the size of the design......if so, this may be your problem.