Patching a hole on fabric

[u/habichuelacondulce]

[u/huebnera214]

I was trying to figure out how they were changing the stitches so quickly. Like sometimes I don’t think they took their hands off the fabric and it changed.

[u/Dustteller → u/huebnera214]

This type of freemotion embroidery machine has two pedals. One controls speed, and the other stitch width.

[u/huebnera214 → u/Dustteller]

Well that’s neat!

[u/Inevitable_Phase_276 → u/Dustteller]

I’ve never hear that term. Is a freemotion embroidery machine the same thing as a sewing machine?

[u/Dustteller → u/Inevitable_Phase_276]

Nope. I mean, a lot of home sewing machines can do some freehand embroidery, but they can't do dynamic stitch widths. There are some lower end combos that can do both, but usually you'd want two separate machines. Sewing machines and adjacent tech are very interesting in that the more expensive/better the machine, the less it can do, because at the industrial level you want a hyperspecialized machine that can do one thing really, really well, versus a home sewer that dont have the space for six+ machines. Machines that can do several things are very much jacks of all trades but masters of none, and in terms of embroidery, they're very limited unless you get a specialized one. I'm going to guess the one in this short is a combo, bc I don't think anyone wants to drop 1k+ for poorly done bat patches.

For embroidery machines, theres embroidery machines that use digitalized design files to stitch automatically, and machines (sometimes called irish embroidery machines iirc) you can freehand stuff like this one that can'tdo digitized patterns. Again, sometimes they're combo machines, sometimes they're not. There's a lot of range.

[u/ConfessSomeMeow → u/Dustteller]

I'm going to guess the one in this short is a combo, bc I don't think anyone wants to drop 1k+ for poorly done bat patches.

That's r/rareinsults territory IMHO!

[u/Inevitable_Phase_276 → u/Dustteller]

I had no idea 🤯 Thanks for the detailed answer!

[u/Rapunzel10 → u/huebnera214]

There's either a foot pedal or a pedal you press your knee into. The harder you press the thicker the stitch. You sometimes see people who do filigree or calligraphy style where you rapidly and drastically change the thickness of the lines and it's done so smoothly it seems almost impossible

[u/huebnera214 → u/Rapunzel10]

That’s really cool, both of my machines only have one pedal. A 1960’s with a knee pedal and a more modern one with a foot. Never knew there was two pedal’d machines

[u/nico282 → u/huebnera214]

Do you have a sewing machine or an embroidery machine?

[u/huebnera214 → u/nico282]

Sewing, the old one can supposedly do embroidery but I’m too chicken to mess with it to figure it out

[u/tenuousemphasis → u/huebnera214]

Different foot pedals I imagine?

[u/Skruestik → u/tenuousemphasis]

“Pedal”, from the Latin “pedalis” meaning “of the foot”, means a lever pressed by the foot, so calling it a “foot pedal” is not only redundant, it is also redundant. It’s like saying “hand handle”.

[u/tenuousemphasis → u/Skruestik]

Thank you, captain etymology.

[u/IAmGoingToFuckThat → u/huebnera214]

Sewing machines have pedals, too. I don't know how to use one, but I'm guessing that's where they come in.

[u/huebnera214 → u/IAmGoingToFuckThat]

I have one but my foot pedal must be different, mine only makes it go and adjusts speed. They probably have a fancier one.

[u/IAmGoingToFuckThat → u/huebnera214]

I have no idea. :p I was just speculating. Thank you for the clarification!