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hi everyone,

I am planning to start a small embroidery sewing business, designing embroideries, then stitching them to ready-made t-shirts, towels, caps etc.

I am looking at the Singer Futura CE200 (or similar budget machines) plus Embird software for the job, whereby my weekly target is to get about 200 pcs of t-shirts done for small jobs.

200 pcs of logo in front of the tshirt 200 pcs of company name at the back of tshirt 200 pcs of emblem/logo on the sleeve of the tshirt

That should be make it 600 hoops/stitching each week, 120 a day or 15 an hour. Is that possible? Comments and suggestions are welcomed. I am a newbie.

regards, Gerald

PS. Tajima is way over my budget.

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Gerald
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I am also new at this, just got a Designer SE but 15 an hour sounds very ambitious. They take time to make, time to hoop, time to cut threads and time to change colors. You would, at a bare minimum have to buy extra hoops so you could have the next project "ready to go". Kirsten

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Riteous Right Reverend Mahmoud

Hi Gerald -

To answer your questions...

Not a good choice for a business. Even for home use it's a bit on the lightweight side. You'll be unlikely to get 200 pcs done before it needs repairs.

Even with a commercial machine that's a lot of work in one hour. That's 4 minutes per sewout. The CE200 TOP SPEED is

600-stitches-per-minute... Meaning your designs would have to be less than 2,400 stitches if the machine ran at full spped all the time - which they don't.

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milady

Thanks for the comments. Looks like I have to go back to the drawing board. Any suggestions for entry level business machine? Also, suggestions for software? I hear Wilcom Pro. is good.

gerald

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