[Nfb-krafters-korner] I Have done it! Happy music, I have heard it now!

Tue Dec 6 21:37:14 UTC 2016

Just to clarify this regarding Linda's comment about using a hoop on the
machine.  The embroidery machines today you don't have to move the hoop at
all.  There is the embroidery unit that attaches to the machine and
basically once you attach the hoop to this unit all you need to do is push
some buttons and put the thread from the thread spool down near the needle.
You don't even have to thread this baby.  I don't even wined bobbins!  It
has this button and the machine threads itself thru the needle.  You can
purchase bobbins that already has thread wined on them.[not that expensive,
I  got 36 of them for $10] and the bobbins come with them.  Now let me tell
you the machine moves the hoop and what you are embroidering all over the
place while it embroiders.  It even cuts the thread on the top and bottom
either if it has to move too far to another area to embroider or it is
finished with that color thread.  When you are threading it after you get to
the area of the needle there is 2 little twists & turns and then you pull
the thread over to the side and lift it upward and back toward you.  There
is a cutter that cuts the thread to leave just enough to push a loop thru
the needle and you don't touch anything except the start button.  

I recently spoke to someone that had a much older embroidery machine and she
told me she had to move the hoop by hand and do the embroidery free hand.

I do a lot of threading the machine as my machine does only one color at a
time of thread.  The commercial ones and even the very high end home
embroidery machines have from 6 to 16 spools of thread that basically works
together.  I would say each one has a needle for each of the color threads.
I am not sure as I didn't get to feel one of those stitching, but I did take
a trip to New Your to check out a commercial embroidery machine
demonstration.  I wanted to see if JAWS would work with the machine and
their laptop, but we couldn't get JAWS to install.

Joyce

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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] I Have done it! Happy music, I have heard
it now!

	I am so excited!!  Now you will have to teach a class or come visit
me and do a one on one!  Using the hoop is exceptionally exciting.  I have
been told there is no way I can use a hoop on the machine because of having
to move it.
Linda

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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] I Have done it! Happy music, I have heard it
now!

For the last few weeks I have been quietly working a lot on my embroidery
machine.  I didn't give up, but I have learned a lot.  I went away for 2
days for an embroidery class and that was 2 hole days 8:30 A.M. until 5 P.M.
sitting and listening and there were 3 people using one machine.  So we
rotated around and I had a taste of what you can do with an embroidery
machine.  I came home on Sunday and sat down and wrote am email to the
manufacturer [Baby Lock] and complained that this store sold me one of their
machines and making me wait 6  months before they will have a class to teach
me the basics.  They didn't even show me how to thread it or wined the
bobbin.

Little did I know that they read this email on Sunday night and forwarded it
to the store I purchased it at and sent me some questions back.

I had a 2 hour lesson, one to one with the embroidery machine teacher that
week at the store.  I came home and have been working with it for the last
twoweeks.  I have learned a lot more and thought out how a blind person can
do it.  Learned what the sounds of the machine mean.  Practiced and learned
about stabilizers and hooping.  I have made some mistakes by accident and
doing things I should have not done.

Tonight, I did reach one of my goals.  When you turn on a computer it makes
a music sound and so does this computer in my machine.   When you need to
change colors of thread it does a short music sound.  When it is all
finished it [I'm Calling it], the "Happy Dance music"!  The tune is a little
longer and ends on a upward beat.  Well I finally did a project, all on my
own and heard the "Happy Dance Music!" 

I do have some other things to work on how I will know what to do, but I am
on my way...

For those who made comments for reading the computer screen, I found
"Googgleyes"   that worked the best and turning off the flash.

I heard that there is an embroidery/sewing machine that has an app that will
work with the computer screen on the sewing machine and your IPhone/IPad.
Yep, I sent an email to Baby Lock and asked when they will have WI for their
machine screen.  I also talked to the owner of the sewing machine store and
asked him that question, too.  He told me folks want this to happen and he
is thinking that Baby Lock will have this as an upgrade software next year.

So yes, Mommy, I can use an embroidery machine without seeing.  It will be
much better when the app will show the screen of my sewing machine or read
it with voiceover on my IPhone/IPad.

Just need to figure out how to label the colors on the spools of thread.
There isn't a way to attach barcode labels on the spools or the pen friend
labels.  Maybe I will have to write more letters to the thread makers and
ask them to put barcodes on the spools that a barcode reader can scan.

JoyceFI 

I have had my machine since August and was waiting for the beginner's class
atwhere I purchased it.  I learned 2 weeks prior to Turkey Day 

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