Embroidery Machine Operator Training
Basic training and skills for a new embroidery machine operator.
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1Thread and the Embroidery Machine
- Thread Sizes
- 35/40 weights
- Thread Color Chart
- Robinson Anton
- Upper Thread Tensions
- Relationship to bobbin tension
- Changing thread VIDEO below
- Embroidery Knot for pull thread through the needle
- Thread Sizes
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2Bobbins
- Changing bobbins
- Bobbin tensions
- Adjustment screw
- Cleaning dirt from bobbin thread path
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3Tensions
- Relationship between upper thread and bobbin tensions
- Looping on top
- Looping on bottom
- Amount of bobbin thread showing on the bottom
- What know to adjust and how they control the thread path.
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4Changing Needles VideoHow to change a needle by Coldesi
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5Backing
- Tear-away
- Cut-away
- Solvy
How to apply backings
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6HoopingHow to Hoop Videos
- How to hoop a left chest
- How to hoop a cap front
- how to hoop a sleeve
- how to hoop a cap back
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7Needles
- Sizes of needles
- Needle numbering system
- Changing needle on a machine
- Parts of a needle: Shank, eye, scarf
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8How a Stitch is MadeExplain the hook and needle operation
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9How timing works on a sewing machineA demonstration of how to check the timing on a straight stitch sewing machine with explanation of how a machine makes a stitch. Done in a single take, sorry about the couple of lost trains of thought. ;)
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10Understand how an embroidery machine works
- Relationship of hook to the needle
- Oiling procedures for machine
- Bobbin adjustments
- Machine error codes
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11Where to Oil and Grease an embroidery machine
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12Understanding a work order
- Thread Sequences
- Items on a work order
- Design number on a work order
- Loading the design from the server to the embroidery machine