This morning was one of those that really showed me the value of having great working embroidery tools.  I was faced with an issue that many embroiderers face. I created a huge embroidery error and I had to figure out how to fix it! It does not happen too often, thank goodness, but I just wanted to share a little bit about what goes on in the life of The Embroidery Coach when I am in a hurry and how I got myself out of this one!

I was in the process of making 2 sashes for a NY State DeMolay chapter and I did not program in enough colors for the design.  The phone rang, I left the machine and forget to finish the job when I went back!  I already had the lettering embroidered and it looked beautiful, but they have an emblem at the bottom and one at the top also.  I embroidered the first emblem on the bottom and of course I was off to the computer to do some more work!  When I went back to take it out of the machine, the last color was wrong!  I wanted to cry, but instead I got out my wonderful Peggy’s Stitch Eraser and went to work.  It only took me a few minutes and I had the entire design removed!  I was able to do so without removing it from the hoop so it made the resewing part go very well.

I layed new backing under the hoop on top of the needle plate, I reprogrammed the machine and increased my design by 3% and Wa La!!  It was perfect!  There was no sign of any error.  I was extremely happy!

Every now and then we all have a screw up!  Would you please share one of yours with me and let me know how you were able to solve your problem? I would really appreciate it and I know that many other embroiderers would also!

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach

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Hooping Caps with the The Third Hand Hooper is so much easier than having to hoop them the traditional way.  It takes all of the effort and stress out of hooping the caps whether they are the heavy stiff caps or just the simple unstructured caps.

Today I had the privilege of training the employees of one of my students on hooping caps.  He has been in the business for two years now, but has shied away from caps because of the stress that it was causing his employees.  He called me to come to his place of business to train his employees on the proper way of hooping caps and I decided to take my Third Hand Hooper with me and they were totallyamazed at what a difference it made in both the ease of hooping as well as the time that it was saving them to actually do the hooping.

In my own opinion, this is the only way that anyone should hoop caps if they are serious about doing cap embroidery.  In the large embroidery business that I sold I had an older lady, 68 years old, that has been hooping caps for me since 1995.  She can keep up with the 15 head machine, hooping, running the designs, trimming and packing all at the same time.  She would not be able to do this without the Third Hand Hooper. She is still hooping the caps today!

It is a great investment in your business and is huge in reducing Workers Comp claims.   I am going to be doing a video on this piece of equipment very shortly and posting it to my website.  If you would like any more information on this Third Hand Hooper, please contact me personally at joyce@embroiderytipsandmore.com.

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach
www.embroiderytipsandmore.com

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