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Machine Embroidery | Everything I Use & Love 🧵
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items Everything I’m actually using while I figure out machine embroidery 🧵 From my Brother SE700 and stabilizers to thread, blanks, Etsy designs and the little tools that make projects easier. I’m definitely still learning, so this isn’t an expert-approv...
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🧵 Machine Embroidery Setup
✨ Thread, Stabilizer & Supplies
✂️ Tools That Make It Easier
🎨 Designs & Blanks I've Actually Used
🧵 Machine Embroidery Setup
The machine and basic setup I’m using while I learn my way around machine embroidery.
This is the embroidery machine I use for all of my projects! 🧵 I found my Brother SE700 on Facebook Marketplace, which is basically how this whole embroidery hobby started. 😂 It’s a combination sewing and embroidery machine with a 4" x 4" embroider...
Brother SE700 Sewing & Embroidery Machine
✨ Thread, Stabilizer & Supplies
The thread, stabilizers and other supplies I’ve actually used in my embroidery projects—including a few fun finds I definitely didn’t know I needed.
The glow-in-the-dark thread is what made my pumpkin shirt so fun! 🎃✨ I used this in place of regular orange embroidery thread for the pumpkins, and I love that the design looks cute during the day but has a little surprise once it gets dark. It work...
Glow-in-the-Dark Halloween Embroidery Thread
This has quickly become one of those things I don’t want to embroider without! 🧵 I use Odif 505 to temporarily hold my fabric in place while I’m setting up an embroidery project, especially when working with stabilizer. It gives everything a little ...
Fabric Adhesive Spray | Embroidery Must-Have
This is the cut-away stabilizer I use for embroidering shirts! 🧵 I used it behind my pumpkin tee to give the fabric extra support while it stitched, and it worked really well with my Brother SE700. I’m still learning which stabilizer to use for diff...
Cut-Away Embroidery Stabilizer for Shirts
If you’re just starting out, I’d honestly skip the smaller thread sets and get the big pack right away. 🧵😂 Having 80 colors on hand is SO nice because I’m not constantly realizing I don’t have quite the right shade for a design. I use this thread w...
New brothread 80-Color Embroidery Thread Set
✂️ Tools That Make It Easier
Little tools I keep reaching for that make embroidery setup, trimming and finishing projects a whole lot easier.
Cute AND actually useful—which is obviously my favorite combination. 😂🧵 I keep these little DMC Peacock scissors by my embroidery machine for trimming threads and cleaning up the little details after a design finishes stitching. The small, pointed ...
DMC Peacock Small Detail Embroidery Scissors
🎨 Designs & Blanks I've Actually Used
The actual embroidery files, shirts, sweatshirts and other blanks I’ve tried—plus what I used them to make.
This is the exact embroidery file I used for my pumpkin tee! 🎃 I love that each little jack-o’-lantern has a different face—it makes such a cute, simple Halloween design without being over the top. I used the PES file with my Brother SE700 and swapp...
Four Smiling Pumpkins Machine Embroidery Design | Halloween PES File 🎃
Such a good affordable blank for machine embroidery! I used this Old Navy tee for my embroidered pumpkin shirt and it stitched out really well with cut-away stabilizer. I like that it’s inexpensive enough that I’m not terrified to experiment on it 😂...
Old Navy EveryWear Crew-Neck T-Shirt | Machine Embroidery Blank