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replied to your video “Like 6000 stitches into a 15000 stitch design, on the 8th color…”
Is it a chicken? I hope to see the finished design!
It is! I actually had a few people who said similar things on various social media, like, ‘oh i bet it’ll turn out lovely’. Uh… no. That video was of the machine badly malfunctioning. So it turned out fucked-up as hell.
But it *is* a lovely design, I downloaded it for free on… shit. Uh. Some website. I was so sure I’d remember. embroiderthis dot com, probably.
I’m still not sure if it came out so fucked-up because there was some sort of invisible dirt in the bobbin race, or because one shouldn’t really honestly use a narrow satin stitch for one’s entire design, or what, but it came out awful. However, the design is pretty. I just don’t think I’ll bother trying it again.
Sorry, chicken! That was your one shot.
Here’s a screenshot of the design in the embroidery software, so you get some idea what it was supposed to look like:
Note, though, the weird yellow blob by the chin, and then the three weird reddish blobs above the head? Those are all berries and each one of those is a color stop. Why? I don’t know. They’re the same color, or should be, and so this indicates to me that the design was kind of… not very attentively digitized. However, it was free.
Here, however, is what it looked like. For the record, I cleaned out the bobbin race and rethreaded the entire machine about fifteen times, and then gave up and let it run, and after another thousand stitches or so, it started working, for the last, like, three hundred stitches of the design. So. Gnomes, maybe. Fairies. Gremlins. What are those things called. Who knows.
yyyyyyeahhh no. I mean, clearly I did this on the best fabric I owned, lol. So whatever. I’ll use it as interlining for something, or stuffing, or scraps, or whatever. But. I won’t bother with this design again, most likely.
However, the machine has worked fine ever since that. This is the latest thing I did, which is a free downloaded design that i just resized. It’s got overlapping stitches I don’t like, though, and I think I can figure out how to erase them but I’m not sure.
Is the crucial difference the twenty-ninth time I rethreaded? The new bobbin? Or is it that this is a fill stitch and the other one was all satin stitches? I don’t know! Who even knows. It’s all a mystery.
Meanwhile I’m trying to load two sewing machines and approximately four fucktillion yards of fabric into my car, because I didn’t have the measurements I needed and couldn’t sew my yurt insulation panels during the three weeks I was in the house where my machines and fabric already are. But, at least I got my serger back from Wally and it’s all fixed, so I have that to help me.
replied to your video “Like 6000 stitches into a 15000 stitch design, on the 8th color…”
Is it a chicken? I hope to see the finished design!
It is! I actually had a few people who said similar things on various social media, like, ‘oh i bet it’ll turn out lovely’. Uh… no. That video was of the machine badly malfunctioning. So it turned out fucked-up as hell.
But it *is* a lovely design, I downloaded it for free on… shit. Uh. Some website. I was so sure I’d remember. embroiderthis dot com, probably.
I’m still not sure if it came out so fucked-up because there was some sort of invisible dirt in the bobbin race, or because one shouldn’t really honestly use a narrow satin stitch for one’s entire design, or what, but it came out awful. However, the design is pretty. I just don’t think I’ll bother trying it again.
Sorry, chicken! That was your one shot.
Here’s a screenshot of the design in the embroidery software, so you get some idea what it was supposed to look like:
Note, though, the weird yellow blob by the chin, and then the three weird reddish blobs above the head? Those are all berries and each one of those is a color stop. Why? I don’t know. They’re the same color, or should be, and so this indicates to me that the design was kind of… not very attentively digitized. However, it was free.
Here, however, is what it looked like. For the record, I cleaned out the bobbin race and rethreaded the entire machine about fifteen times, and then gave up and let it run, and after another thousand stitches or so, it started working, for the last, like, three hundred stitches of the design. So. Gnomes, maybe. Fairies. Gremlins. What are those things called. Who knows.
yyyyyyeahhh no. I mean, clearly I did this on the best fabric I owned, lol. So whatever. I’ll use it as interlining for something, or stuffing, or scraps, or whatever. But. I won’t bother with this design again, most likely.
However, the machine has worked fine ever since that. This is the latest thing I did, which is a free downloaded design that i just resized. It’s got overlapping stitches I don’t like, though, and I think I can figure out how to erase them but I’m not sure.
Is the crucial difference the twenty-ninth time I rethreaded? The new bobbin? Or is it that this is a fill stitch and the other one was all satin stitches? I don’t know! Who even knows. It’s all a mystery.
Meanwhile I’m trying to load two sewing machines and approximately four fucktillion yards of fabric into my car, because I didn’t have the measurements I needed and couldn’t sew my yurt insulation panels during the three weeks I was in the house where my machines and fabric already are. But, at least I got my serger back from Wally and it’s all fixed, so I have that to help me.
