youtu.be/AAULzH8eWFc Watch a lot of what goes on during sewing a large-design embroidery pattern at real speed. Some common situations like snipping excess thread and starting from a thread break or two, and stopping for bobbin check. But mostly just pure machine sewing at 1000 RPM setting for two hours straight! This video is at normal 1X speed. If you are short on time (!), watch our other Dragon upload which is 20 times normal speed (no sound, however). The design sews some company marks first, one in 3D puff embroidery foam, then proceeds with the colorful dragon. All 15 needles and colors available on the machine were used. The 3D foam was hand rubbed and the sides tucked in (mashed slightly) with a small flat-head screwdriver at the end before display, which removes most stray pieces and forces the shape to be trapped firmly under the thread. I havent tried the hair dryer method. Some basic embroidery machine settings changed for this video are: Startup stitches changed from 1 slow stitch to 3 slow stitches after trim. Startup acceleration changed from 10 down to 5. Startup whipstitch increased. Trim if X jumps was changed to 3. (Sized for the lettering here, to trim after each letter) instead of sewing lines to the next letter. Slower overall speed but prettier and no need to manually snip. Startup RPM left at 80 RPM. Maximum RPM set at 600 at very beginning, increased to 1000 RPM after the foam was secure and left there for the rest of the video. Machine was at semi-automatic color change at the start, this was not intended and machine moved to full-auto color change. (Semi-auto changes color at a color change but then waits for operator). Only one test run was done before this video. Needle 2 black had repeated thread breaks in the test run, which turned out to be the previous operator threading it wrong. If you get more than a few thread breaks, its not a bad idea to just remove the whole thread and put the same exact cone back on. A new bobbin was placed in the machine before start, and had enough left over for maybe another 10k stitches of the dragon... good showing to do 80k+ stitches without change. Some patterns use more bobbin thread than others. EDIT: This new embroidery machine had very little break-in time before this sew, perhaps a day or two running some test patterns while the mechanical tech was fiddling with all of the machines. The thread cones were then mostly changed out to the proper colors on the day of the shoot, by a junior operator, and as mentioned I found he loaded the black color incorrectly... thread caught in a spring. PLEASE WATCH UPPER THREAD VIDEO IN OUR CHANNEL. The digitizer we use is Pro Digitizing (design@prodigitizing). Digitizing is taking either a drawing, computer .bmp or .jpg, or real-life picture and then asking a professional to turn that into an attractive looking embroidery design for sew on a commercial embroidery machine. They are also good at the new 3D puff foam embroidery, and caps. 80,000 stitches counts as a very large embroidery pattern. 5,000 only might be closer to the average for the industry, for small designs and names placed on shirts, caps, jackets, etc. Our single-head embroidery machine line is an affordable new embroidery machine model and is very good value and performance for the price, and is continually undergoing improvements. Please contact our lead sales, sales@butterflyemb, for questions, or for video requests.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:02:52 +0000