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Trainer Checklist
- Identify the embroidery machine vs other sewing machines in the room
- Machine setup
- Identify parts of the machine setup: screen, needle, foot, hoop, bobbin case, USB stick
- Identify top threads suitable for machine use from the rack of all threads
- Can add thread to empty bobbin
- Can thread lower half of machine with full bobbin
- Can thread upper half of machine, including needle, from an appropriate spool
- Identify when machine foot is up and when it is down
- Can attach and detach hoop from machine
- Fabric setup
- Choose an appropriate test fabric from fabrics in the room
- Iron fabric to smooth without melting anything
- Put ironed fabric and stabilizer in hoop at appropriate tension
- Attach hoop to machine
- Using preset designs
- Select a design from the machine presets and adjust location on the fabric within the hoop, on the machine touch screen
- Understand when/how to rethread top thread to switch colors
- Skip forward and backwards by number of stitches/pattern color pieces
- Understand when preset layers need to happen in a specific order (e.g. satin above fill)
- Trainee successfully completes all layers of a machine preset design on test fabric (i.e. put foot down, press button, watch machine to completion of design)
- Creating a custom design
- Understand if a file from online is of the appropriate format
- Understand if a shape will fit in the hoop
- Advanced info not tested, out of scope for this training
- Troubleshooting
- Know where the screwdriver for the machine is stored
- Can use screwdriver to take off and put on bottom metal plate (should only be necessary if there is a snag in the threads)
- Can use screwdriver to take off and put on needle (should only be necessary if needle breaks)
- Hackerspace citizenship
- Cleans up and removes threads from machine after training completed
- Understand who to ask for help in Slack, and when to ask for help (e.g. if there is a snag you can’t untangle, if you’re not sure what to do)
- Understand where information is listed on the wiki
- Acknowledge that this equipment is on loan and that it’s better to raise issues early than to accidentally break it