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Introduction - Finding an Image

Embroidery is all about solid blocks of color being sewn into fabric. Select images with large solid color fills, not images with skinny outlines. It's just the opposite of most of our laser cuting or vinyl cutting. Start with an image that has only one color. Something like this is perfect. Each block of color has no outline to it, and it's all one color:

Setting up the Embroidery Machine

All of the following steps must be completed before the Brother SE400 is ready to embroider. It can also be used as a sewing machine so you need to change it from sewing to embroidering before use. If someone else has been using it to embroider before you, you can skip the first half of this and jump to the section called Embroidery Computer.

Use the Manual (the paper version is found in the second drawer under the machine) to set up the Embroidery Machine if was previously used for sewing. Pages you need have been inserted below.

What to Prepare (Page 118)

  1. Fabric. If your fabric is not heavy-weight then use stabilizer material, which you can find in the second drawer in the cabinet under the machine. It's a white, thick paper which can be put under the fabric to add thickness.
  2. Embroidery Thread is in the top drawer. Don't use sewing cotton thread.
  3. The extra needles and parts for the Brother machine are in the bottom drawer.

Directions for Attaching the Embroidery Foot (Page 120)

Photo of Embroidery Foot Installed

Directions for Attaching the Embroidery Unit (Page 123)

Preparing the Fabric (Page 126) Note: Our stabilizer doesn't have adhesive