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I love the concept of an embroidery machine. Like, I don’t know if I’ll ever put the brain cells together to acquire and painstakingly learn how to operate one, but I’m gonna occasionally daydream about the cool shit it could do if I worked at it.
I haven’t yet fully realized any of my ideas. They’re still a little nebulous. To be honest, it’s something I’d discussed with my BFF, intending to encourage *her* to get one, so that I could help her figure it out and make a couple of things I had in mind, but that mostly, she’d be the one to use. So the fact that she bought one for me was a little surprising, and of course I’m excited and touched, but I’m still kind of like– oh! I hadn’t really– thought about what I’d do with one. Still, very cool.
So I’m also not totally sure what I want, here, exactly, but. It turns out they’re not all that hard to operate if you’re familiar with sewing machines– and that’s the kicker, I think; she’s not great at sewing machines and has little interest in sewing, really. Her passion lies mostly in yarncraft. I don’t yarncraft at all, and I love sewing, and I sew a lot. I’m not good at it, mind, but I do it a lot, and that’s important.
[If you’re considering getting one, the one I have is basically just a sewing machine most of the time, so it would happily do double duty. It’s good if you mostly do garment and quilting stuff, and want to embroider the occasional embellishment. It’s a kind of a compromise of a machine, really. My only worry is that it’s flimsy, but, you know, c’est la vie.]
I think most ideally I’ll get to a point where I can do art with it. That’s really truly what I want. Like, making patches to sell, I’ll probably do; a few copies of something are fine to make on a light-duty machine like this. But what I really want to work toward is to have really elaborate embroidered things, where the bulk of it is laid down with machine fills and satin stitches and such, and then I can master the tambour hook enough to do elaborate beaded edges and chain stitches and stuff, all the visible finishing stuff, by hand, so I can have really rich embellishment on art pieces but still actually finish them ever.
I hate doing satin stitch and fill stitches by hand, so the few embroidery pieces I’ve tried to do that have included them have either never gotten done or have taken forever. (Like… my nephew’s birth sampler, which I gave to him finally when he was nearly old enough to read it, whoops. And actually when I was helping them move I didn’t see it, so I wonder if it ever wound up displayed anywhere…….. oh well)
But– short-term, my idea is that the potpourri sachets we sell at the holidays could be combined with the little Christmas tree ornaments we sell, and so I could do little embroidered fronts for the sachets and have them be ornaments. That’s my short-term plan.
I love the concept of an embroidery machine. Like, I don’t know if I’ll ever put the brain cells together to acquire and painstakingly learn how to operate one, but I’m gonna occasionally daydream about the cool shit it could do if I worked at it.
I haven’t yet fully realized any of my ideas. They’re still a little nebulous. To be honest, it’s something I’d discussed with my BFF, intending to encourage *her* to get one, so that I could help her figure it out and make a couple of things I had in mind, but that mostly, she’d be the one to use. So the fact that she bought one for me was a little surprising, and of course I’m excited and touched, but I’m still kind of like– oh! I hadn’t really– thought about what I’d do with one. Still, very cool.
So I’m also not totally sure what I want, here, exactly, but. It turns out they’re not all that hard to operate if you’re familiar with sewing machines– and that’s the kicker, I think; she’s not great at sewing machines and has little interest in sewing, really. Her passion lies mostly in yarncraft. I don’t yarncraft at all, and I love sewing, and I sew a lot. I’m not good at it, mind, but I do it a lot, and that’s important.
[If you’re considering getting one, the one I have is basically just a sewing machine most of the time, so it would happily do double duty. It’s good if you mostly do garment and quilting stuff, and want to embroider the occasional embellishment. It’s a kind of a compromise of a machine, really. My only worry is that it’s flimsy, but, you know, c’est la vie.]
I think most ideally I’ll get to a point where I can do art with it. That’s really truly what I want. Like, making patches to sell, I’ll probably do; a few copies of something are fine to make on a light-duty machine like this. But what I really want to work toward is to have really elaborate embroidered things, where the bulk of it is laid down with machine fills and satin stitches and such, and then I can master the tambour hook enough to do elaborate beaded edges and chain stitches and stuff, all the visible finishing stuff, by hand, so I can have really rich embellishment on art pieces but still actually finish them ever.
I hate doing satin stitch and fill stitches by hand, so the few embroidery pieces I’ve tried to do that have included them have either never gotten done or have taken forever. (Like… my nephew’s birth sampler, which I gave to him finally when he was nearly old enough to read it, whoops. And actually when I was helping them move I didn’t see it, so I wonder if it ever wound up displayed anywhere…….. oh well)
But– short-term, my idea is that the potpourri sachets we sell at the holidays could be combined with the little Christmas tree ornaments we sell, and so I could do little embroidered fronts for the sachets and have them be ornaments. That’s my short-term plan.
