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This week I also tried using the embroidery machine for the first time, with a lot of help from Cecilia!
## How we set up the machine
We have a Janome embroidery machine in TextileLab Amsterdam
We have a Janome 200E Memory Craft embroidery machine in TextileLab Amsterdam, and here are my not 100% wonderful instructions on how to use it:
*Tomorrow I need to go back to the machine, take a bunch of screenshots, and document how to set it up*
### Preparing the file
* Hooping the fabric
* Preparing a USB stick
* Importing an image
* Different kinds of stitches
* I created the design in Rhino3D, and imported it into Illustrator to do a bit of editing. Then I exported it as a .jpg (high quality!), size 14cm x 14cm, as that's the maximum size the machine can embroider.
* On one computer in the lab we have a license for Embird, an embroidery program that can export to Janome's .jef format. It looks like it was designed in the 1990s and never updated.
* On opening Embird, open the 'Sfumato' plugin. This allows you to convert images to stitch patterns.
* Open the image you want to embroider.
* Use magic wand tool to highlight design, create stitches
* Export to .jef
### Formatting the USB stick
* Place usb stick in machine. format
* Save designs to EMBF folder
### Setting up the machine
* release hoop and place fabric upside down. If using stretchy fabric, use backing
* Replace in machine
* thread machine according to instructions
* conductive thread as bottom thread - place fabric upside down
* USB - embf- file
* Lower presser foot, and press start.
* Stop and start at any time by pressing the start button to pause.
* Reduce speed to minimum when working with conductive thread
[Turtlestitch](https://www.turtlestitch.org/) is a great resource for coding designs to embroider on an embroidery machine, but unfortunately it's not possible to export to .jef format, which is the only format the Janome machine will work with. But I highly recommend it if you have a machine that accepts the formats they do support!
## Tests with regular thread
The first thing we tried was a Hilbert curve design I made in Grasshopper in Week 5.
