smokeythecat — Cute Embroidery

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by smokeythecat in Community

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I got my machine back! Next time i feel like driving out there i have a buy one get one coupon fir madeira thread. The test embroidery was a big cool looking skull. I looked and the tension is set to -3? So thats weird. They also actually fixed the bur by

7 02 Nov 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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I haven't been on here in a while cause there's been school stuff to do, and I think I talked about it on here before, but my machine wasn't fixed by the repair people back in september, so it's been packed up in its rolly bag ready to be taken to the

6 23 Oct 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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My machine is running a lot quieter now so thats all good, but it periodically loops on the underside of the fabric. It doesnt really affect the design, but obviously its still not a good thing, especially with fsl because it shows. I havent had time to g

3 29 Sep 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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ah man, cat problems rant or whatever... So, Smokey was an indoor only cat until he was like 2, then at our next house we lived at about a year i allowed him on the roof through my window a lot and in the back yard a couple times. The next house we li

9 22 Sep 2016

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by smokeythecat in Project

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This was like 3 weeks ago but theres been so much to do. I made the free ith pencil case project from hatch and put the inspire design from somebody on here on it. I thought some of the pencil case instructions were weird... like having to press the quart

14 20 Sep 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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Making the hoop move quieter Is one of those slippery things you stick on the machine for quilting the way to go? Im scared of how loud my neighbors can hear through the apartment walls so ive had the machine running at 350 but the stupid hoop rubbing

7 17 Sep 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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I think this is where this goes? I, once again, accidentally removed my flash drive from my computer without ejecting it. Only once in my entire life of disregarding the "safely eject" things have I had a flash drive get messed up from it, however the e

13 16 Sep 2016

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by smokeythecat in Project

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The monster potholder was definitely a huge party to sew. And im definitely not really annoyed at the entire thing When you cut out fabric really carefully using the dieline template, and then it sews the placement line, and you line up your pieces rea

7 03 Sep 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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I took my machine into the shop on saturday and they said it would be about a week to get done. It's been annoying not being able to sew or embroider anything, but Smokey hasn't knocked over and gone through my trash can since the machine's been gone..

5 30 Aug 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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I found out the problem...<br /><br /><br /><br /> Theres a scratch, that i can feel is really sharp, on the thing under the hook that the needle goes right by (the scratch looks dark in the picture). Clearly its from one of my broken needles. So thats

13 25 Aug 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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Ooh yay thread shredding party! Im sewing the lace tree skirt edging from one of the oesd christmas collections and everything was fine until about 10000 stitches and between there and 15 ive had the thread shred on me 3 times. Last time this happened on

4 24 Aug 2016

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by smokeythecat in Project

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Ill put the finished towel here in projects where it belongs. The letters got a little looser. Either the loops messed with them or maybe i stretched the towel hooping it. Next time the big ones probably shouldnt be satin. Still happy with it though :)

11 23 Aug 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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I did a kitchen towel I was kinda lazy designing the cookie so it ended up trying to put 6 stitches in the same hole around a couple of the chocolate chips and i just skipped forward until the thing actually moved. You can see my cat being sad that

13 22 Aug 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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How do you personally embroider bath towels? Ive heard people mostly using cut away on the back and thin wss on top, but people also say that the towel loops will poke through after a while so they put tulle on top. And since cut away isnt pretty on th

6 18 Aug 2016

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by smokeythecat in Community

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Brands of 60wt bobbin thread? I'm almost out of all the bobbins i wound with the spool of brother thread that came with my machine, and when i bought one of those big rainbow sets of cheap thread off amazon it came with bobbin thread also, (and it was

8 16 Aug 2016