Yesterday I spoke of helping someone via the phone with a stitching problem. This afternoon Lynda came over . . . complete with the sewing machine. It is an interesting story.
Lynda’s son sells seed corn. He was sure he could nail things down so he could embroidery t-shirts with his logo as well as the company’s. He bought a 26 lb. embroidery machine from Canada and felt confident he was computer savoy enough to digitize the design for stitching. “Here Mom, you get the machine set up and then in time I will do the stitching.” It’s a good thing Lynda’s hair was gray already.
The amount of stitching in his completed project, much like what is found on many tee shirts above the pocket, was equal to one of my designs that I had posted yesterday that was very compact to fill the 6″ x 6″ block. Lynda never could get past the first 2,000 stitches let alone the 32,000 of his design.
I tried to open the flash drive on my sewing machine that held the design with no luck. My lap top could not open the content of the flash drive. His sewing machine did not acknowledge a flash drive that I had to see how things would shake out.
It does prove that research is needed before purchasing, let alone something from Canada when JoAnn Fabrics has machines that will do a limited amount of embroidery.
My suggestion at the end of the afternoon was to sit down with her son, have the fabric loaded in the hoop attached to his sewing machine and allow him to enjoy the stitching of his project. I also did tell her to stay in touch.
Life is interesting and every day can be a teaching tool. Also it was a day to be grateful that what I had researched for my love of stitching has served me well.