Testing Sewing Machine Embroidery Patterns
Leah RybakDescription
Old T-shirts make a great piece of fabric for testing out your sewing machine stitches. In this video, Leah Rybak demonstrates a quick and easy trick for testing a sewing machine embroidery pattern before you start your next project.
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What do you do to correct a less than good stitch out design? ( example- as she showed in her video). or an error?
Why wouldn't I try my test on a small piece of the same fabric I will use for the final product? Seems like that would tell me more than using some other fabric.
The idea is good if you are going to embroider on T-shirts. I usually make sure I get just a little more of the material I am going to use - or a fat quarter of the same material. If it stitches out clean, I have a sample I can show others if they ask ,"do you do embroidery?" I do have a question tho. Why should I have to purchase a membership to watch an entire "Free" video to the end? That defeats the idea of a "free video"
She should have shown the difference stabilizers make for the fabric(t-shirts this time) and often that makes the pattern acceptable...or not!
I agree with Leah as to using t-shirt or inexpensive material to practice. I would rather thrift it to practice. The t-shirt idea will give me ( my being some what of a rookie at this) a more stable material tom practice with until I become more proficient with other materials. My being a metal worker by trade would rather practice with aluminum rather with gold. My pockets are not that deep. I comment to this not to be argumentative but to bring a good point to her tutorial. Leah's tutorial was spot on. Thank You for the in sight.
Totally agree with Rosemary. It does no good to test on t-shirt fabric unless you are planning to use it. National Sewing Circle is irresponsible to allow bad advice on "free" videos. Many people don't read comments and will try a bad method and get poor results on their projects. Designs are digitized for specific fabrics. Example: never use a design with a heavy fill on a t-shirt fabric, only an open airy design
Why would you test an embroidery design on a knit fabric unless you were going to embroider on a knit fabric of the same thickness, fibre content etc, this is a complete waste of time and thread. This is the third video I have watched of questionable quality, glad I have not paid the full price for premium membership!