Last minute machine embroidery…

Here’s a design of the latest item I machine embroidered with my Brother Designio Series DZ820E. It’s not the actual item that I made. This evening, my daughter saw the Disney movie, Frozen at a youth event at our Lutheran church. The event started at 6:00 p.m.

About an hour before the event, my daughter stumbled upon the embroidery image that I’ve shown below and said, “Mom, I like bears and this one is listening to music, how cool is that?” “Do you think you can make it in time?” “We’ll see.”

I hooped the tee shirt and set up my machine embroidery machine. I finished the shirt at about 5:45. Talk about close! I clipped the jump stitches, removed the water soluble stabilizer from the front of the shirt. Some I could pick away with my nails and others I used an eraser to remove. I also cut the tear away stabilizer from the back. Once that was finished, we were on our way to church. I do believe she was there at 6:00. I did not stay, since I needed to clean up my crafting mess. You know… excess fabric, notions, etc.

My daughter had a wonderful time at the movie. She’s seen it several times but she was there with her friends so that made the experience even more memorable.

I’ll have to post a picture of the actual shirt. The shirt color is pink, and the bear was stitched in a vivid blue. In hindsight, I would have placed the design a bit higher towards the neck. My daughter loved it, just how it was made.

As you gain experience with machine embroidery, the process might appear “easy” to an outsider, observing machine embroidery, but those who think that are wrong. It does take a degree of skill, patience, knowing what type of fabric to use, threads, stabilizer, etc. Those all have an impact when it comes to creating an amazing machine embroidered item.

The bear is from Urban Threads and is called Rockin’ Bear.

Resources

Urban Threads: Rockin’ Bear