Reddit reviews Threadart Tearaway Embroidery Stabilizer | 1.6 oz Medium Weight | 10" x 100 yd roll | For Machine Embroidery | Also Available Over 20 Additional Styles of Cutaway, Washaway, Tearaway, Sticky in Rolls and Precut Sheets
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✅ 10" x 100 yd roll of all purpose medium weight tearaway stabilizer works well with medium to high density and large designs, delicate and stretchy fabrics. 1.6 oz (45 grams)✅ A tearaway style stabilizer that provides a clean and professional look after the excess stabilizer is torn away after embroidering. Easily tears in any direction.✅ Perfect for both home and commercial embroidery machines. Nonwoven 50% polyester/50% rayon.✅ Very easy to use. Simply hoop the tearaway embroidery stabilizer together with the fabric, then stitch. After finishing your project, tear away the excess stabilizer close to the stitches for a clean professional look.✅ This stabilizer is a medium weight 1.6 oz (45 grams) tear away which is perfect for most stitch density projects. For extra stability and performance for very high stitch counts, you can you can use more than one layer.
I have an embroidery machine! With a price point of $2000 I would recommend the Viking Designer Jade 35 It has an MSRP of $1,799. Go into your local Viking store and see what kind of offers are going on. You just missed a 25% off sale that happened in November, and October had a 50% off trade-in machines so you could have gotten a very good deal on something pre-owned then too. I don't know what the December sales will be since I haven't gotten their email yet but that should give you a place to start negotiating- and you should negotiate. Viking stores operate on commission so no one wants to lose a sale if they can possibly help it. They really want to be moving these larger priced machines, especially at the holidays. Be clear in what you want and don't hesitate to press for having to get a manager's approval on a lower price. You should never be paying full price.
Software! If you have an embroidery machine, you need software for it. Embroidery software can be heinously expensive and very complicated. The Jade apparently comes with an 'Intro' version of their software for free but Viking stores will offer you their proprietary software for around $2000+. If your mother is moderately competent at learning how to navigate software on her own and wants to customize her designs at all then I would really recommend getting Embird It's a third party software and you can purchase it in individual modules to customize what she wants to do. I personally recommend the $164 basic program and Iconizer $20 to start with.
The basic program will let her resize (though you don't really want to resize a design more or less than 10% of it's original size or things go wonky), edit designs, split out pieces, convert from one file type to another, etc. Iconizer will let her open a folder with all of her embroidery designs and see what the designs look like without opening them up- it's a great QoL upgrade. My guess is that after that, she'd probably like the Font Engine upgrade. It is, however, another $145 and can take any computer font and digitize it for embroidery... more or less. Unless she really likes working on the computer and tweeking things in software, or needs to embroidery a lot of words onto things, I don't actually recommend the Font Engine for starting embroiderers. You can buy fonts for <$20 that are designed and tested to work.
In total... I bet you could get the machine negotiated down to $1500 or $1600 and maybe get them to throw in the small 120x120mm for free. + $180 for software and you're coming in under your $2000 budget. If you're feeling extra affectionate towards your mother, throw in some bulk stabilizer and Embroidery thread! (I do like that Mettler polysheen brand, I've always gotten great results from it with minimal thread breakage.) and you're probably still pretty close to or under budget depending on taxes.