Earlier this year I was asked if I had embroidery machines and if I did could the person contacting me come and have a look. Somehow this hasnt happened but it did today. A couple of weeks ago I had a stall at a stashbuster sale and someone I know from swimming said she had a embroidery machine for sale. Last week I collected this machine and brought it to my house. The person who is interested is a young man who wishes to embroider his own designs on t-shirts. Using inkscape and a embroidery machine in a Makerspace where he was visiting.

So... today we finally met and he met his new to him embroidery machine a Janome 350e (I think). We had a brilliant time lots of questions asked and for me a new experience as I have never used this machine before. After about 3 hours he went with some embroidered fabric, loads of ideas and hopefully helpful advice. He set off carrying the machine, the backpack he arrived with, a bag of hoops and all the info the machine came with, and two bags of fabric that I was going to pass on to someone else. Somewhere there were needles, thread and As yet we didnt look at my machines as I wanted him to get to know His machine and my machines are way out of his budget.
I was amazed at what he had achieved and his first foray into machine embroidery was on a t-shirt and there was no backing fabric used and he had created the design himself in Inkscape.
I am looking forwards to more sessions with our embroidery machines. Lastly the friend who's machine it was is delighted that it has found a home where it will be used and loved