Free Motion Embroidery for Beginners Like Me!

You've always wanted to try free motion machine embroidery but have been frightened off by those fabulous examples in books and magazines. Well, sweeties, here you go. It's another one of those cases of: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It. So drop those feed dogs, and let's go!

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[mrsjbyrd]

Love the vid!!!! This is awesome!! My mom has 2 embroidery machines- one regular one and the other is the huge standing one- i have yet to understand what to do on either one!! lol- but i think i'll learn your way first, it looks pretty cool!!! thankx for sharing!

[ricefz]

@mrsjbyrd Thanks for watching! If I can do it, you KNOW you can do it~~

[BebeZed]

Thanks for posting this! I used to do a LOT of free-motion machine embroidery back 20 years ago (in the dark ages! lol) on my kids/infants line of clothing and it's cool to see that someone is still carrying on the tradition! It's a very cool art form... and it's wonderful that you decided to share! I had never seen the paddles you were using... wish I'd had those - I've put needles through my finger a few times and the paddles would have made that a whole less likely!

[ricefz]

@BebeZed Thank you! Art quilters do a lot of lovely free-motion embroidery. Mine is, alas, purely functional--it holds stuff together. But that's a BIG deal with the stuff I make~~take care, and thanks for watching!

[music4life843]

Your personality is awesome! Thanks for posting something so useful and straight to the grain!

[ricefz]

@music4life843 Thanks for watching!

[pushup8daisies]

You are cute as a bug! Love the hair, love the matching glasses :) Great job on the video!

[0nlinealot]

You rock thankyou very much for the video - very helpful, in a world of sewing videos narrated by boring lackluster stepford wifes - you are a shiney ray of inked wonder :D

From a newly sewing obsessed brit :) xX

[LaurellyThorpe]

@BebeZed Thanks BebeZed, I'll try that when I'm next on the machine! :)

[BebeZed]

@LaurellyThorpe It might very well be a tension problem.. I found I had to loosen up my bobbin thread for it to work well. Play with tension... if that doesn't work I'm not sure what the problem would be...

[ricefz]

@iampeeay01 Thanks!

[iampeeay01]

you're a cool lady!!! i love your style.... two thumbs up for your video... :)