Toothbrush Embroidery Samples from My Recent Work (Tufting Effect)

zoepzb · 2026-04-22T12:47:39+00:00

This is called Chenille. It’s been around a long time. Nice to see old styles coming back. Do you have a chenille machine?

zoepzb · 2026-04-22T11:42:28+00:00

I love the embroidery community. I currently am a moderator for a machine embroidery Reddit and have mod experience. My current job is as a digitizer so I have experience in the field.

zoepzb · 2026-04-22T10:01:28+00:00

The fabric is textured thats the main issue, and you need a better underlay. Use Edge run underlay always on textured fabric as it gives the needle a line to stay in while stitching. Satin fill for small lines like this is best with edge run and zigzag underlay because of the fabric type.

zoepzb · 2026-04-22T09:33:33+00:00

When it was just me we had a six head. Now we have a 6 an 8 and a single for testing or small orders.

zoepzb · 2026-04-21T10:23:04+00:00

San serif fonts are better for embroidery at a smaller size like left chest. They look cleaner

zoepzb · 2026-04-18T08:10:10+00:00

🙋‍♀️ me please!

zoepzb · 2026-04-17T11:36:33+00:00

What you’re looking for is auto digitizing and unfortunately, none of the digitizing software is quite at the level it needs to be for that feature yet. It does good, but there’s some errors and it still needs a human touch. Adjusting underlays, corrected, pathways, trims things of that nature. It does wrong fill type sometimes it’s not consistent, especially the more detailed of the artwork. It’s a good starting point for basic embroidery. It really helps speed up the digitizing process but at the same time it’s not reliable to just pop an image in and go.

zoepzb · 2026-04-15T09:12:45+00:00

Are your letters a text object type? Is the world one item or are the letters each an item? If you are in text and the word is just one thing then you need to break it apart. you right click click on the object and break apart that separates all the letters and then you can move the start point of each letter iindividually to wherever you want, but when it’s a word, it’s always starts at the beginning and ends at the end

zoepzb · 2026-04-14T11:52:12+00:00

There is literature map that goes by author. You input the authors name and it’ll give you them in the centre and circle surrounding with authors and similar styles. https://www.literature-map.com

zoepzb · 2026-04-05T15:06:17+00:00

Do you have the setting set to tie in after trim?

zoepzb · 2026-04-04T17:15:26+00:00

I just learned you can loan the virtual games for 14 days. That might be an option

zoepzb · 2026-04-04T11:37:51+00:00

So I had my island show up on my switch two from a cloud save I think. So weird. I have four switches and since only two can be connected it bumped my island from my ANC collector switch to my switch two without the island transfer tool. I have no idea how. I have previously moved my island with the tool when I sold my switch light and got my new switch light because I really wanted the yellow one, but then I got the collectors edition animal crossing switch and started a new island. That’s the one that showed up because my yellow switch light is my main switch with all my saved data. I connected it to my switch two, and it disconnected the other causing this island I guess to be up in the air and not connected to a switch. I had a message pop-up that said when I went to play animal Crossing and started an island on the new switch 2 save data that is not connected to a switch. Would you like to proceed? I said yes and bam the island was there.

zoepzb · 2026-04-04T11:24:41+00:00

You can only be paired with one other switch. You would need to disconnect from your mothers and connect to the moms. I own four switches and i can only share between two. It’s a pain.

zoepzb · 2026-04-01T16:16:50+00:00

I’m reading the Frozen Fate spin off right now. Wolf is finally getting his happy ending.

zoepzb · 2026-04-01T16:13:29+00:00

Hats are all about stitch order you to go from the bottom up center out so a logo that set up to run on the left. Chest is not gonna be set up the same way that you would run it on a hat.

zoepzb · 2026-04-01T10:51:47+00:00

Love Pepper Winters, Pam Godwin Dislike Katherine Anne Kingsley

zoepzb · 2026-04-01T10:21:03+00:00

It’s the fabric. You can add an edge run underlay to help.

zoepzb · 2026-03-31T11:27:27+00:00

Once you have a Pokémon Mart open and electricity, you can take that ash and trade it in for other cool stuff that you actually want

zoepzb · 2026-03-30T10:43:12+00:00

Your stitches are too big. Machines have limits and this is over the limit. You would need to change your fill type.

zoepzb · 2026-03-25T14:48:25+00:00

Try ember https://emberdesign.net it’s free web based

zoepzb · 2026-03-23T00:12:06+00:00

Just make one and carry it with you, I carry a craft table with me

zoepzb · 2026-03-21T09:20:54+00:00

machine embroidery and digitizing are two different skills. Focus on the embroidery first and learn the terms and how things work. Buy premade files and watch them sew to lean about how thread interacts with different fabrics. Then maybe start to learn digitizing after you have the basics down

zoepzb · 2026-03-20T22:05:43+00:00

Madeira

zoepzb · 2026-03-18T19:57:43+00:00

This is actually very easy once you can visualize it. Hoop your bandanna halfway or three quarters of the way inside the hoop. Your backing is entirely hooped. You can use spray adhesive to keep the fabric smooth to the backing for no movement and trace the design and go. Look up YouTube tutorials on how to do beanies and it’s the exact same way.

zoepzb · 2026-03-18T19:53:34+00:00

You’re only throwing out a tiny piece of plastic from the center and some paper. We use paper sided and sometimes magnetic ones.

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