For graduation my grandma was kind enough to buy me an embroidery machine. I got the
Brother PE500 embroidery machine. I absolutely love it! I have zero experience with embroidery; I avoided it at all cost in freshman year apparel development. With that said, this machine is perfect for beginners. It has diagrams on the machine to help you thread it, the owners manual is very straight forward, and the parts require little assembly. I mainly use the machine for monogramming, and I monogram everything. It used to cost me $20 a piece to monogram things at a local shop, but now I can do it for free! Although there are certain things you can't embroider (odd shaped things mainly), a vast majority of my belongings are able to be embroidered. The machine comes with tons of patterns and 5 fonts. However, none of these fonts are particularly good for monogramming, so I decided to download some more from the internet. I thought this was going to be super difficult, but it wasn't at all. I used
Apex Embroidery Fonts because they had a large amount of fonts to chose from and their prices were reasonable. I purchased the fonts, hooked my machine up to my computer and just dragged the fonts into the E drive. I will post an in depth tutorial later on. Here are just a few things I have gotten around to monogramming.
The running shorts were just an experiment since I wasn't sure how to position the hoop, but eventually I figured it out. This was the first pair I did and the monogram is positioned way to close to the crotch area. Luckily, I only used a cheap pair of Target shorts.
This is just what the screen looks like when you are setting up the image you embroidered.
I also bought this same machine last week and have downloaded fonts from the computer. on mine it only lets you embroider one font at a time if it was downloaded. is your the same way or do you know another way to get the entire monogram to show in the screen and embroider all at once? thanks!
ReplyDeleteYes, mine is the exact same way! I usually just download the three letters separately and start with the larger center letter then play around to get the other two to look right around it. However, if I use one of the 5 built in fonts, I can do a whole word or name at once.
DeleteIm trying to do whole names in fonts I downloaded and it makes it much harder! I wonder if all embroider machines are like this and if there are easier ways. thanks!
DeleteI think it is just that our machine recognizes fonts as single images not letters that can make words. I have yet to try ibroidery.com, but that is the Brother site. I don't know if they would work differently, but it can't hurt to try.
Deleteibroidery.com doesn't have any fonts either. not sure why not. thanks!
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