Picking up the merrow tomorrow? Yay!!!!!!
It will make your patch production so much easier!
It will make your patch production so much easier!
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binki
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Got the merrow in but the distributor doesn't sell the floss so I had to order from Robison/Anoton. We will have about 8 colors in tomorrow but we did get a black spool with the machine.
I managed to break all 4 needles that came with it right away and had to wait for our additional 50 that we ordered when we picked up the machine. They are in now and we are back in business.
Delivered our first patch with a merrow stitch on it and have 2 orders that we have to sew out and do the edge stitching this weekend. I just quoted 2 more patch orders for full back designs.
If I have time I will also go back and redo a few patches that we have done in the past as samples as well as the US Flag and CA flag for our showroom. We can probably sell those pretty easy.
It looks like the merrow machine will pay for itself pretty quickly.
I managed to break all 4 needles that came with it right away and had to wait for our additional 50 that we ordered when we picked up the machine. They are in now and we are back in business.
Delivered our first patch with a merrow stitch on it and have 2 orders that we have to sew out and do the edge stitching this weekend. I just quoted 2 more patch orders for full back designs.
If I have time I will also go back and redo a few patches that we have done in the past as samples as well as the US Flag and CA flag for our showroom. We can probably sell those pretty easy.
It looks like the merrow machine will pay for itself pretty quickly.
binki
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What we found out was most of these machines are shipped outside of the US. Our distributor doesn't see too many of them.
It has taken me a lot of practice to get the non-square ones down. Our first few orders on this thing I had to do double the number of patches just to get enough good ones to go out the door. One order was for 6 14" oval jacket back patches. Ouch! The other was a dozen 3.5" rounds. We have some more lined up and I am trying to do some samples to practice on, on top of that.
It has taken me a lot of practice to get the non-square ones down. Our first few orders on this thing I had to do double the number of patches just to get enough good ones to go out the door. One order was for 6 14" oval jacket back patches. Ouch! The other was a dozen 3.5" rounds. We have some more lined up and I am trying to do some samples to practice on, on top of that.
Binki,
Yeah, ouch on goofing up those big ones. That is a lot of wasted work. You are learning though. Great idea to use some samples to practice on. Whenever I sew, each job that I do I'm always using scrap to test my stitches before stitching on any "real" embroidered garments or items. I try to use either the same exact fabric, backing, whatever is needed, or something very similar.
Anyhow, sounds like you are progressing. Embroidery is a lot of work, but once you get stuff dialed in for each job, hopefully there are re-runs. Don't forget to document how you did everything and keep it in the Customer file. It will save you all kinds of time.
Good luck!
Yeah, ouch on goofing up those big ones. That is a lot of wasted work. You are learning though. Great idea to use some samples to practice on. Whenever I sew, each job that I do I'm always using scrap to test my stitches before stitching on any "real" embroidered garments or items. I try to use either the same exact fabric, backing, whatever is needed, or something very similar.
Anyhow, sounds like you are progressing. Embroidery is a lot of work, but once you get stuff dialed in for each job, hopefully there are re-runs. Don't forget to document how you did everything and keep it in the Customer file. It will save you all kinds of time.
Good luck!