machine embroidering baby clothes

[ktarsha]

So I have this embroidery machine (a Singer CE200), and I want to use it to make cute custom-embroidered things for my son and my niece.

I know how to embroider flat items, like scarves or button-front shirts, and I think I can figure out how to do adult-sized t-shirts, since I could just slide them over the work surface arm. What I want to know is, can I use my machine to stitch on smaller premade garments that don't open flat, like onesies or pants? Any hints or suggestions are welcome!

[dvons]

You can either cut the stitching on the seam and sew it back up when you are done or find out if there is a tiny hoop available. Also you can by the cap/sock hoops extra that help you get into small spaces. Once the item is sewn up though you are rather limited. I find it easiest to embroider before I even cut the pattern piece out that way I can cut it out exactly where I want it.

Deb

[love2bmom]

I'm new to embroidering also, but perhaps you could use the water soluble interfacing and create the embroidery design and then sew it onto the clothes.
When I was at the sewing shop last week the ladies working there were making snowflakes on just the stabilizer (no fabric). They said then you just rinse it out and all you have left is the snowflakes. I think it was a Marie Osmond Christmas book they were working from.
Hope that helps

[triciarn]

Check out Sewforums for more help. They are very helpful plus they have many free designs you can download.

Tricia

[ktarsha]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I am intrigued by embroidering on the stabilizer only; I’ll have to give that a try. I’m not sewing the clothes myself - not yet, anyway; if I ever get to quit my job, I want to learn to sew clothing – so what I’m hoping to do is find out how to embroider on clothes that I purchase. I didn’t know about sewforums.com; it looks like a wealth of great information!

[Erinok]

I have the same machine, you canuse either size hoop that it comes with, you have to kind if pull the rest of the material out of the way as best you can

[ktarsha]

That's where I get a little confused... Do you just squash the back of the garment out of the way? How do you secure it?

[bodhicitta3]

I do onesies all the time. Buy a small hoop if yours is really big and just pull the back of the onesie our of the way. I warn you not to just walk away from it though keep an eye or a hand on it otherwise you will be ripping stitches!

[ktarsha]

Thanks! I was sure it was possible, but I kept getting hung up on that one detail. I have two hoops, but I'll probably need a smaller one. What a shame, I'll have to go shopping

Now I'm all excited to get started, but I won't have time to do anything until Sunday at the earliest.

[LoveBaby]

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[Erinok]

you can use the hoops the machine came with, even the larger one, just stretch the material so it is all pulled up kind of over the hoop, or catches around the perimeter of the hoop. try it once or twice, it's not that hard. if you use a real small hoop the designs you can do are limited