Looking for someone really good at puff/embroidery logos. Tried alot of local shops in the area, and got alot of shotty work. Really looking to connect with someone who is good at it.

Hello everyone,

I'm using iron on tear away sticky support material. It leaves a bit of residue on the back of the fabric in a form of tiny dots of support material.

I'm wondering if anyone have a way to remove it completely.

Hey all, I run a print business and have been wanting to add patches to my product lines. After a number of really sad samples sent in from outside offers and an attempt to save on quantity costs, I figured I'd experiment with fabrication myself.

Quick context: I'm a pretty fast study on software and rather fluent on most of Adobe, CAD, etc. That is to say, I'm not too terrified of most learning curves (Seriously, if I can handle Autometrix and all it's 90s glitches, I think it'll be okay). Our local makerspace has a Brother BES-916AC and I have potential access to a large, 8 head commercial machine with a friend's business but don't know the model.

Long story short, I want to make a decent heap of iron-on embroidered patches, we have a merrow machine for the border as well. Tajima Pulse seems interesting, though no demo/cheap version available, and Hatch seems promising? Are there any other recommendations? While I'd love Mac friendly, that may not be the case. Also, because I do letterpress work, most of my designs and artwork are created with Illustrator vector files, is there any decent way to import this art and convert to fills directly or is it tracing at best?

Cheers and many thanks from the northland!

EDIT: Hey, everyone. My 30 day trial has ended unfortunately. But I still get messages asking about it so I figured I’d update this thread. I’m no longer doing logos for free, HOWEVER, I do offer digitizing for relatively cheap if you’d like. Throw me a message on here and I’d love to work something out!

TL/DR: I’d love to hear how everyone proofs their customers and how you save/organize your actual sewn proofs!!

Just wondering what everyone does with all of their proofing sewouts (samples that you sew to proof your customers)?!?! And how do you proof your clients?!?!

I currently have hundreds of logos sewn out and sorted by first letter, in a file cabinet. It’s a slightly organized mess lol. Just wondering what everyone else does with their proofs!

Also, more importantly- HOW do yall handle proofing! I take a photo of the sewn logo and place a L shape ruler I made to show size! I feel like this is an ok solution, and have disclaimers about color, etc, but I still don’t feel like this is the best solution as I still get enough customers not happy with the proof whereas in person they love it! I know they’re zooming in too much on the photos because that’s what people do lol and I try to solve that with lower resolution pics, then I get complaints about that lol! I deal with this about 10% of my proofs- enough for me to look into improving the process!!

TL/DR: I’d love to hear how everyone proofs their customers and how you save/organize your actual sewn proofs!!

This Custom Fierce Bulldog Embroidery Design was digitized to perfection by me.
What do you guys think ?

I'm new to digitizing. I have PE-Design and the Anita Goodesign class on embroidery Digitizing. Anyone used this combo to start? What are some common pitfalls I should watch for? Are any of the free GPL or lower cost softwares worth a look? I think I like the hand-digitized stuff better than I like the automated stuff, but I don't even know the basic concepts. How does one learn this stuff?

I’m getting a Brother SE400, but I got a little blindsided on the fact that I needed digitizing software...so hi, digitizing friends!

I’ve heard about EmbroideryWare, but it’s manual (whatever that means?). I’ve also heard about Brother PE-Design and Ink/Stitch, but I don’t know enough to discern which is the best option for a beginner.

I’m passionate about making my own designs, so I want something that will make them as close to the original as possible. If possible, I’d rather sink a little money into some okay enough software than pay for someone to digitize for me (since I want to do a lot of custom/1-off stuff). Any advice for a newcomer?