Set Up for Success: How I Batch Out Hats // Small Embroidery Business Tips and Tricks [Video]

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🔷 ABOUT SAMCRAFT 🔷
Samcraft is a channel all about educating, inspiring, motivating, encouraging, and sharing the things I’ve learned since starting my own small business in 2018.

Today’s video is all about the business aspect of running an embroidery shop. I share my tips and tricks on setting up the machine for success, what I do before running a batch of hats, changing thread, what the best needles are, who makes the best embroidery thread, how I clan up embroidered hats, show a super useful tool called a snag nab it, and much more!

🔷 VIDEO CHAPTERS 🔷
0:00 – Intro
0:56 – Setting Your Machine Up for Success
1:56 – How Often to Check Tension
2:54 – My Favorite Bobbin Thread
3:50 – Machine Oiling
4:14 – When to Change Your Needles
5:10 – Needle Size, Needle Type, Needle Brand
6:49 – What Thread Do I Use
9:48 – Changing Thread Spools on the Embroidery Machine
10:40 – Thread Pathway on the Smartstitch 1501
11:03 – Ready to Start Embroidering
13:00 – Sam’s #1 Tip for All Shops
14:04 – First Hat Done
14:35 – Thread Breaks 4 Life
15:30 – Always Use Stabilizer with Hats
16:14 – Why You Need a Snag Nab-It Tool
16:48 – I Watch YouTube While I Work Too
18:08 – Finding Patterns with Thread Breaks
21:12 – How Long Will This Take
22:00 – DONE!
22:25 – Total Thread Breaks, Total Hat Failures, New Employees and Thanks!

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