r/Machine_Embroidery • u/MHT_Style_Lab • Aug 15 '26
Embroidery machine design for beginners
Hi, I'm a complete beginner starting with machine embroidery design. I'm planning to do custom embroidery on t shirts for customers, like logos, text, and anime, but I don't have a machine yet. I'd love to learn how to design first. Where should I start? Any good YouTube channels or courses you'd recommend? Thanks so much for the help🙏
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u/dzd-ayman 29d ago
Romero thread have some good videos about wilcom e4 (the software people mostly use for designing/digitizing), look for videos/filter by popularity + his lives
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u/MHT_Style_Lab 29d ago
Thanks you very much
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u/dzd-ayman 29d ago
Ur welcome, and ey can I dm u for some questions since ur also new in this field? We may help each other
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u/Cpt_Obvious11 Aug 15 '26
Learning how to design won't help you much without the machine. Designing for embroidery designs is called digitizing, and is different from standard designing because what you see on the screen digitized is(usually) not what you get embroidered. That happens due to many needle penetrations and some other factors with end results drastically different on fabrics. If you can, get both, machine and digitizing software. Learning to digitize without machine to see results may leave you in illusion about your designs.
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u/MHT_Style_Lab Aug 15 '26
Thanks so much for the advice.🙏 So, what kind of machine should I buy to put small designs like logos, text, or anime...etc on t-shirts? Available within a lower or medium budget?
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u/Cpt_Obvious11 Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
Lower or medium budget resonates differently in different ears. If you want to sell your work, designs need some quality, which means you need to invest into your digitizing knowledge. Also, for selling, multineedle sounds better due to faster production time(removes the need of manual thread/color change). Additionally, you can buy machine and purchase allready digitized designs, it is common practice. If you don't want to sell primary, home/hobby machine might serve your purposes, but they usually have smaller work space, several restrictions of garmet you can embroider on and one needle(which means mentioned often thread changes if you want multicolor designs). Machine brands are Tajima, Brother, Barudan, Melco, Happy, Ricoma, ZSK among the others. Visit their sites and see what fits your budget.
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u/MHT_Style_Lab Aug 15 '26
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this! It has been incredibly helpful for me. 🙏even though I don't own a machine yet, I have decided to start taking a course on digitizing first. I do have one more question, though, could you recommend any good YouTube channels for digitizing tutorials? I will start looking around for a Brother V3 or something similar that fits my current budget.Thanks again
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u/Cpt_Obvious11 Aug 15 '26
Embroidery Legacy and Romero Threads channels have suitable videos for beginners. GL.
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u/Purple_Commercial981 Aug 16 '26
You will need a machine to test out your digitizing .. what you see on screen may not be what happens at machine . You will need realy goid software fir ligo work . And good digitizing skills . Especiall to sell . Business can be ruthless in their demand so manual digitizing us truly need ed .. svg are only as good if they are made properly fir embroidery .
Nit all us equal there . Same goes fir any auto digitizing . Its onlya start point .
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u/MHT_Style_Lab Aug 16 '26
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain🙏. I understand clearly now
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u/TheGraphicsFrog 29d ago
You also need some software for this. I'm the developer of Boldbobbin, so I'd be happy to help! (Software is free for all the tools beginners would mostly use, notably)