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Posted by Candide on January 1, 2006, 10:26 pm
Was faffing about my Pfaff 1209 yesterday, and nearly drove myself mad
trying to embroider a monogram. Granted it has been years and it does
take some time to really become good at free hand embroidery via
machine; was wondering if it would not be easier to just buy an
embroidery machine or at least a more upscale model sewing machine that
has a built in alphabet/embroidery stitches. Thoughts?
Really do not wish to do anything fancy, monograms on shirts, towels,
linens and such. Writing names on clothing and perhaps some light
heirloom sewing for linens and nursery.
Candide
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Posted by Sarah Dale on January 2, 2006, 4:27 am
Candide wrote:
> machine; was wondering if it would not be easier to just buy an
> embroidery machine or at least a more upscale model sewing machine that
> has a built in alphabet/embroidery stitches. Thoughts?
Hi Candide,
I can imagine your frustration! I have an upscale SM with a huge number
of built in fancy stitches and 2 alphabets. It is a Husqvarna Platinum
Plus - the TOTL non-embroidery machine.
I ended up buying this machine because I have never been one for over
decorated clothing, prefering understatement, but I love the look of
heirloom sewing and wanted more options than I'd had previously, so this
was the machine for me.
> Really do not wish to do anything fancy, monograms on shirts, towels,
> linens and such. Writing names on clothing and perhaps some light
> heirloom sewing for linens and nursery.
The machine I have would certainly do that for you, but this is what I
have noticed, that you may want to consider before upgrading:-
Using the built in fonts, you can only get the text / fancy sticthes as
big as your needle total swing (or to put it another way - the size of
the hole in the zig-zag presser foot). To do anything bigger you would
need to go back to freehand satin stitch - my machine does at least have
an auto taper feature for that! - and the width of the satin stitch is
also under the same limitations.
I would think to do larger monograms on a regular basis, you are
probably going to need a different machine - but I have no knowldge in
that area!
I do love my machine and there are any number of ways round the
limitations and the largest text size it produces is certainly fine for
the usage I want from it.
HTH,
Sarah
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Posted by G. Wayne Hines on January 2, 2006, 5:33 am
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:27:49 +0000, Sarah Dale
>Candide wrote:
>> machine; was wondering if it would not be easier to just buy an
>> embroidery machine or at least a more upscale model sewing machine that
>> has a built in alphabet/embroidery stitches. Thoughts?
>
>Hi Candide,
>
>I can imagine your frustration! I have an upscale SM with a huge number
>of built in fancy stitches and 2 alphabets. It is a Husqvarna Platinum
>Plus - the TOTL non-embroidery machine.
Are you sure you don't have the Platinum 770? The Platinum Plus, like
its successor the 950, has embroidery capability. As a trade-off, it
has fewer stitches than the 770.
gwh
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Posted by Sarah Dale on January 3, 2006, 4:35 am
G. Wayne Hines wrote:
> Are you sure you don't have the Platinum 770? The Platinum Plus, like
> its successor the 950, has embroidery capability. As a trade-off, it
> has fewer stitches than the 770.
Eeek! Indeed, apologies to all, my brain is scrambled these days :( I do
indeed have the Platinum 770, not the Platinum Plus. Thanks for spotting
the error!
Sarah
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Posted by Max Penn on January 2, 2006, 10:44 am
> Was faffing about my Pfaff 1209 yesterday, and nearly drove myself mad
> trying to embroider a monogram. Granted it has been years and it does
> take some time to really become good at free hand embroidery via
> machine; was wondering if it would not be easier to just buy an
> embroidery machine or at least a more upscale model sewing machine that
> has a built in alphabet/embroidery stitches. Thoughts?
>
> Really do not wish to do anything fancy, monograms on shirts, towels,
> linens and such. Writing names on clothing and perhaps some light
> heirloom sewing for linens and nursery.
>
>
>
> Candide
Candide,
If you only need a monogramming capability, it may be possible to fit
your Pfaff with a mechanical monogrammer. My Viking 'Sew Easy' (the 200
series) has all the stitches I need but it's a basic model and it doesn't
monogram. I took the chance of buying a Janome "Alphabet Stitch"
monogramming attachment and found it is perfectly compatible with my low
shank machine. For a two letter monogram, it's easier than the Singer
monogrammer because it's set up mechanically to keep the letters in
alignment; for more than two letters, you have to line it up yourself. The
experiment cost me about $30 and I figured it it was a failure I could
always offer it on eBay.
You'd probably need to find a used one. I don't think any manufacturers
are turning out new mechanical monogrammers. I'm enough of a Luddite that I
prefer a machine that I understand. Electronic circuitry make the fancier
new machines very nice to use but they're likely to fail sooner than the
mechanical machines, some of which are well into their second century and
still stitching.
Max
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