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Your original artwork is the secret sauce-that makes all the difference!

Hello Lauren - I love watching your embroidery journey and this is a fantastic video:). I absolutley love my 12 needle happy japan which I am now using every single day. I am making patches and keyrings mainly for motorcycle groups that I belong to plus embroidering logos onto T shirts and fleeces. I have recenlty learnt to embroidery onto hats after watching your excellent video on attaching the hat frame etc. I have not yet got round to digitising, but trying to learn so currently I send artwork away. I always look forward to your next video and often re-watch your previous ones. Thank you so much and keep it up - you are an inspiration:)

I have wondered about the Happy Japan machines. I noticed that your embroidering on jean jackets!

these videos are always so helpful and refreshing as a beginner embroidery business (havent even strated selling yet theres so much to learn) , and also being from the UK ! always look forward to them 😄

I love the view out your windows. I want that view!! lol

you have an amazing work space. I love how much light pours into your work area

Hi, your videos are great and very inspirational. As a self taught embroiderer with a smal business I can feel your story. By now I don't own a multi needle machine yet. But I changed the working location and am now doing customized embroidery for a company as an employee. There I have access to some multi needle machines and they are a game changer. Embroidery is a fantastic journey that I never want to miss anymore. Thank you so much for charing your story. Greetings from Germany and happy stiching.

Your videos are always so informative. Like you, I hate dealing with social media marketing (and I'm still trying to figure it out)! Keep it up!

Love it, so honest.

Awesome!

Amazing video. Great advice. ❤

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Love the dog contaminating all your product!

Hi Lauren, love your video. I went to see the happy Japan in person today. I’m still undecided if I should get a brand new one of second hand. What model is the one you have with the clean front panel right behind you?

3x cost of materials sounds unsustainable when factoring in labor, wear and tear, fees, wastage, utilities, space, and growth unless you have 50k+ in machines running simultaneously and ship by the crate daily. it's like a race to the bottom because you could make them even cheaper if you had 100k in machines but the product itself has an inherent value that's relative to market price for comparable items. Just for curiosity I crunched the numbers on a gross extreme. A 5x7 rectangle comprised of 2 5x7 fills @4.0 density with underlay overlapped would cost $2.7 to ship. That's 375 yards of thread (madeira polyneon) @ $1.50, $0.45 of fabric & stabilizer, $0.05 iron on backing, $0.357 for shipping supplies. Standard flatbed machines seem to run at 600sps so that's 2.3hrs and 2hrs @1000sps. So at 3x the patch would sell for $8.12 which is less than $4 an hour so you'd need to make 6 or 8 at a time to be making anything decent, assuming they all sell, which is unlikely over a short time frame.

What digitizing software do you use ?

Do we need to know any designing tool to use those machines?

What’s a good beginner machine ??