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need advice on which embroidery machine to buy jstone136 08-16-2005
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Posted by on August 16, 2005, 3:14 pm
hello everyone,
i've been researching embroidery machines for weeks now and have hit a
dead end. i just don't know which one to buy and the sales people
always try to sell you the expensive ones! please help if you can.

i am going to start a small business doing embroidery on shirts, caps,
towels, etc. most of my designs will be 5 colors or so. i don't expect
to need to do more than 10-20 items per day, and the designs will all
be around 3" x 3".

what do you guys think i should buy? i have no idea where to begin!

thanks,
js


PS- my email address is a dummy, please reply to the group


Posted by Charlotte on August 16, 2005, 3:34 pm
I think my mother does about your volume, on good days more, and
invested in a professional quality Melco machine.

There is a person who offers embroidery at my local fabric shop. This
person works on a home machine and it is fine for designs in the 1"x1"
range, but bigger designs (3"x3" +) look terrible. The princess design
this person is advertising with has eyeballs that don't line up
properly. It's terrible! To paraphrase a line from the American
revolution "Wait 'till you see the whites of their eyes, then consider
buying".

Here are some examples of stuff my mother's sewn on the Melco:
http://www.initial-impressions.net/emb_kitchen.htm

Melco has a program where you can buy more as your business grows. I
know my mother has done something like that, she has two machines now.
Here's some more information on them:
http://www.melco.com/content/index.cfm?fuseaction=showContent&contentID=27&navID=27

-Charlotte

jstone136@hotmail.com wrote:
> hello everyone,
> i've been researching embroidery machines for weeks now and have hit a
> dead end. i just don't know which one to buy and the sales people
> always try to sell you the expensive ones! please help if you can.
>
> i am going to start a small business doing embroidery on shirts, caps,
> towels, etc. most of my designs will be 5 colors or so. i don't expect
> to need to do more than 10-20 items per day, and the designs will all
> be around 3" x 3".
>
> what do you guys think i should buy? i have no idea where to begin!
>
> thanks,
> js
>
>
> PS- my email address is a dummy, please reply to the group
>

Posted by on August 16, 2005, 10:28 pm
thank you so much for the information!



Charlotte wrote:
> I think my mother does about your volume, on good days more, and
> invested in a professional quality Melco machine.
>
> There is a person who offers embroidery at my local fabric shop. This
> person works on a home machine and it is fine for designs in the 1"x1"
> range, but bigger designs (3"x3" +) look terrible. The princess design
> this person is advertising with has eyeballs that don't line up
> properly. It's terrible! To paraphrase a line from the American
> revolution "Wait 'till you see the whites of their eyes, then consider
> buying".
>
> Here are some examples of stuff my mother's sewn on the Melco:
> http://www.initial-impressions.net/emb_kitchen.htm
>
> Melco has a program where you can buy more as your business grows. I
> know my mother has done something like that, she has two machines now.
> Here's some more information on them:
>
http://www.melco.com/content/index.cfm?fuseaction=showContent&contentID=27&navID=27
>
> -Charlotte
>
> jstone136@hotmail.com wrote:
> > hello everyone,
> > i've been researching embroidery machines for weeks now and have hit a
> > dead end. i just don't know which one to buy and the sales people
> > always try to sell you the expensive ones! please help if you can.
> >
> > i am going to start a small business doing embroidery on shirts, caps,
> > towels, etc. most of my designs will be 5 colors or so. i don't expect
> > to need to do more than 10-20 items per day, and the designs will all
> > be around 3" x 3".
> >
> > what do you guys think i should buy? i have no idea where to begin!
> >
> > thanks,
> > js
> >
> >
> > PS- my email address is a dummy, please reply to the group
> >


Posted by HC on August 17, 2005, 12:03 am
G'day js

In your OP you didn't clarify if you wanted a home embroidery machine or
industrial? For the quantity you suggested I'd guess a home machine as
these would be in a lower price range than an industrial.

My first embroidery machine was a Janome 9000 which I bought 4 years ago
but decided to upgrade to a Janome 10001 (TOL with all bells and
whistles) a year ago, then last month I bought a Janome 9500 so I can
have one machine doing embroidery while sewing on the other.

Janome make a 300E which is embroidery only....this would be a good
option if you have a good sewing machine. This model was bundled with a
Janome 6500 last year and gave the best of both worlds. A brand new TOL
embroidery/sewing machine is to be released on 20th August so I'd
imagine many people will upgrade to this new machine, which means there
will be quite a few pre-loved machines available that might suit your
needs.

When buying designs it's a good idea to stay with well recognised
digitisers, their designs give best results.


Charlotte

With due respect......the 'princess design with terrible eyeballs' is
more than likely a fault of the digitiser than the machine. The machine
will only stitch what has been programmed into the design. It could also
be caused by lack of/or incorrect stabiliser. ;-)

Hope this helps?
Bronwyn ;-)



Charlotte wrote:
> I think my mother does about your volume, on good days more, and
> invested in a professional quality Melco machine.
>
> There is a person who offers embroidery at my local fabric shop. This
> person works on a home machine and it is fine for designs in the 1"x1"
> range, but bigger designs (3"x3" +) look terrible. The princess design
> this person is advertising with has eyeballs that don't line up
> properly. It's terrible! To paraphrase a line from the American
> revolution "Wait 'till you see the whites of their eyes, then consider
> buying".
>
> Here are some examples of stuff my mother's sewn on the Melco:
> http://www.initial-impressions.net/emb_kitchen.htm
>
> Melco has a program where you can buy more as your business grows. I
> know my mother has done something like that, she has two machines now.
> Here's some more information on them:
>
http://www.melco.com/content/index.cfm?fuseaction=showContent&contentID=27&navID=27
>
>
> -Charlotte
>
> jstone136@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> hello everyone,
>> i've been researching embroidery machines for weeks now and have hit a
>> dead end. i just don't know which one to buy and the sales people
>> always try to sell you the expensive ones! please help if you can.
>>
>> i am going to start a small business doing embroidery on shirts, caps,
>> towels, etc. most of my designs will be 5 colors or so. i don't expect
>> to need to do more than 10-20 items per day, and the designs will all
>> be around 3" x 3".
>>
>> what do you guys think i should buy? i have no idea where to begin!
>>
>> thanks,
>> js
>>
>>
>> PS- my email address is a dummy, please reply to the group
>>

Posted by Charlotte on August 17, 2005, 9:22 am


HC wrote:

>
> With due respect......the 'princess design with terrible eyeballs' is
> more than likely a fault of the digitiser than the machine. The machine
> will only stitch what has been programmed into the design. It could also
> be caused by lack of/or incorrect stabiliser. ;-)
>
> Hope this helps?
> Bronwyn ;-)

I would only assume that this person would show their very best work in
the display intended to garner more. For that reason I assumed that the
princess was the best they had.

Thus, they either make or buy terrible digitizations, or the machine
can't stitch reliably at that size, or perhaps it is operator error? I
don't know. I know that I would be very careful about running a business
with a machine not intended for that type of work.

-Charlotte

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