What you need for embroidery accessories is a lot of what just came in your packet.
First off, you have some basic colors of embroidery thread, you have some stabilizer and fabric
to get you started, a pair of curved embroidery scissors and these are some clips, we're going
to show you where those go when using some of the larger hoops or when you have trouble
hooping up some of the fabric.
Another thing that's actually in here is ... so don't throw it away, it kind of looks funny,
but it is a ... it's kind of tacky, it's like a little bit of felt, but if you ever have
a time where you're hooping up a piece of fabric and it's very sheer or having a hard
time staying in the hoop, this will actually be hooped with the fabric so it doesn't damage
the fabric.
That is a nice piece and that does actually come inside your stabilizer and fabric pack.
Another couple of things you might want to pull out of your accessories is you USB stick
that come in two pieces that was in that little pink bag.
What I like to do is just take the little cord, go underneath it and then hook it through
then that way your little strap stays attached to your USB stick.
Sometimes what we do at the store is actually even just one time through onto the handle
and then that way you can still reach over to plug it in on the side and then you can
easily take it off and it doesn't fall off your machine if you're ever moving it around.
This is use for transferring designs from your CDs to your machine or from your computer
to your machine that you've downloaded from the Internet.
You can also do it via a direct connect USB cable.
You will want to download the free, complimentary 5D or 6D Sapphire.
We have videos and with the Ruby videos here that will show you how to do that.
This will actually just allow you to send designs directly to the machine, so that's
a nice, little added that you have.
You have two hoops with this machine, the 360 x 200, which you can see engraved in the
bottom part here, that is a very big hoop; and you also have a hoop that is a 120 x 120;
this is about a 5 x 5 hoop.
Somewhere in between here is a nice middle size for you so you'll probably end up purchasing
another hoop eventually that doesn't use as much stabilizer as the big one.
They'll allow you to do some designs that are wider than the small one.
Just put it in your plan to purchase one.
Probably the most popular one that we sell is the 200 x 200.
It is 8" wide and 8" tall.
It's perfect for doing quilt blocks, so those are great.
Then these hoops have that nice quick release.
Once you get it set, you could open it and close it.
We're going to show you how you hoop that fabric in one of these videos and also how
to attach the embroidery unit to the machine.
Another thing that's helpful to have is you will need your Sensor Q foot out of your accessory
box.
We're going to show you how that actually goes on.
Your disappearing fabric marker, your Pictogram pen is great for marking the center of your
blocks.
Then your needles; you have embroider needles in here but you definitely going to want to
have some extra packs close by.
You might want to wind some bobbins with bobbin thread.
In your little packet, the white spool is not white thread, it is bobbin thread.
It doesn't have the sheen as the other 3 colors that is what you wind in the bobbin.
Bobbin thread is traditionally finer and you can even get some that's even finer than this,
which means you get more on your bobbin and your bobbin lasts longer.
Yey, that's something you want to look into.
Then your screwdriver, keep that close by because that way we can put the foot on and
we are about ready to get this machine all attached and ready to go.
It will switch over from the sewing side all the way over the embroidery side.
One more thing, foot control, do I need one?
Technically not.
Often times I don't even plug it in, but there is a time when if you want to sew really slow
you can step on your foot control and just have it go stitch by stitch by stitch.
Then as soon as you want to stop you can just lift up.
Traditionally, we do not use our foot control when we run the embroidery machine because
we have a start/stop button.
We push it, we let it go and we don't have to hold this down for the machine to run.
Your choice whether you're going to keep it near your machine while you're embroidering.
I tend to move it out of the way so it's not where my feet are, I have a little bit more
room to move underneath my table.