Can a heirloom needle be used in your embroidery machine? TIA ;D

I have used a wing needle, a twin needle and a triple needle on my embroidery machine with excellant results.

1. Accent threads stitched with triple needle
2. Insert of lace stitched with wing needle

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Sorry back again, what kind of designs are good for this, the wing needle leaves a tiny hole in the fabric.

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by shirlener88 01 Jun 2010

The wing needle is made to leave the tiny hole as part of the design that it makes when you use it with heirloom embroidery work - especially if the design is made for the wing needle.

This is probably a dumb question, but what is a heirloom needle?

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by mary51 01 Jun 2010

Well for me heirloom needle is the wing needle. I just finished a project and I used it all around the runner it gives a nice finished to any hemstitch.

Good question! I might have to experiment a little!

If the hole in your throat plate is large enough, YES. I have used both a sword needle and a twin one on my Designer 1. Husqvarna even has special designs to that purpose.
Stand alone machines usually have a small hole and not the wider slit sewing/embroidery machines have. So both my Brother190D and my 4-needle machine only take 'normal' needles.

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by mad14kt 01 Jun 2010

Thanks for your help ;D *2U

i had the same question in my mind. Can we use wing needle and how?

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by motoandnutty 01 Jun 2010

You can only use a wingneedle with your machine if it will fit through the needleplate - mine is a dedicated embroidery machine (PR600II), and so only has a small hole for the needle to fit through, but a combination machine would probably be able to use one.

by mad14kt 01 Jun 2010

Mary I saw a article a year or so ago but I can't remember where ;D *2U

Moto it does seem like a combo machine should be able too ;D