Urban Threads: Machine Embroidery

The past few weeks,

 

I’ve been reacquainting myself with my embroidery machine. I have the Brother Designio embroidery machine.

 

and I’ve been enjoying it immensely.

I hadn’t touched the machine in about two years.

 

A few days ago, I adjusted the tension on my Brother embroidery machine.

Initially, my stitch-outs were looking like this bunny, and in some cases, it was worse,

like this reindeer, however after making a few tweaks to the bobbin case the embroidered designs are now stitching out correctly.  Additionally, I swapped my sewing needle to a 75/11 and now the stitch out is much smoother. I need to remind myself to check my tension after a few stitch outs just to ensure that everything is working perfectly. Now that I think about it, it would be smart to take it apart and to clean it also. Earlier this week, I did open up my machine and was able to remove lint and a few strands of trapped thread. Now that everything is stitching out nicely, I have plenty of works in progress (that I’ve accumulated since making the tension adjustments) to complete. All the designs featured were bought at Urban Threads.

In other news…

I’m slowly making progress on the knit blanket I’m creating for my daughter.

This will be the fourth knit blanket I’ve created this year. Three queen sized blankets and one king size blanket. I’ve used worsted weight wool for all the blankets, so no… these blankets can’t be knit in one day. I’m a fast knitter, the majority of the blankets I’ve knit have taken a little over a month to complete.however, this one is taking the longest, but to be fair a few weeks have gone by without me knitting. My left wrist still is giving me issues and so when that happens, I don’t knit.

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