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My old friend of > 10yrs i supposed is finally going to ROM with his 1st GF!!! hehehe
We are internet friends. Never meet before but I guess its fate that let us know each other (and yet just maintain as internet friends, as in never meet up etc). I am so happy but also worried that I might not do a good job.
This is the first Ring Pillow (decent) one I'm going to make. My relative "ROM" last yr but I dont have the time to do it plus I cannot be bothered. Because I dont think I will be appreciated. The guy is my relative but guy normally dont care much right? Oh yea, I asked him and he told me he has a free ring pillow from the jewellery shop... so good lah! Save my time & money.
Anyway, I just tried out with normal threads and then the silver threads..... wow the result is super bling man!!! Machiam wedding gown effect lor as I'm using Satin. But the problem I am having now is, I dont know this satin... where the *@&# did I bought it from!!! U see, I have bought so many type of satin until I lost count and cannot recall which satin is bought from which shop. Sian liaoz
Luckily, this piece of satin is still big enough. I have another secondary schoolmate (we are never classmate. Know her from another classmate of mine) going to ROM soon so I can do one Ring Pillow for her from this satin. Btw, I am going to take $ from them. Not to earn $ but just to cover full or partial of the costs. Wedding things they better pay $, I better take $ too. Nothing to be shy abt. Chinese Custom... I self declared. hehe. Go outside cannot find at this price.
Another good friend of mine (since primary school) is going to buy HDB unit so I'm wondering when is she going to ROM. I will do one for her too if I can.
So yea, I better brush up my skills and think of how to design the 1st embroidered Ring Pillow. So happy I can finally put my machine to do very pretty/unique and most importantly, my fav- BLING BLING things haha.... i also have a problem. On one hand, I am worried that I might not do a good job but on the other hand, I am worried that my ring pillow is going to be THAT outstanding/bling etc with swarovski crystals n threads that it outshines the couple's wedding rings!!! How?!?! I have seen others selling very fanciful wedding ring pillows.. so fanciful that the big flowers + crystals are hiding the rings! Cannot see the rings! Wapiang......... headache
(I've mentioned earlier that silver threads are expensive. Of course they are!!! I buy only high quality threads and they are really very expensive. So far I have spent more than $700 on threads and its not a lot of colors!!!!! ......... so u see, how to 'earn' from this hobby. Can cover partial costs i can hide in a corner and laugh. Ok, back to topic, silver/gold threads are at least 3-4x more expensive than a normal threads and the length of the thread spool is like 1/5 of normal threads!!! So i think it might be more than 15x (is this how u calculate?) expensive than normal threads.
So there u go....... now u know why embroidered gowns are so expensive right? Workmanship, cost of THREADS!!! all add on to the cost. Plus, u know some satin (silk satins) are like $120/meter? or is it $70-80? Anyway, its still VERY expensive......... so thats why some gowns are that expensive. For me, I use cheaper satin. I cannot bear to fork out $70-100++ of satin for Ring Pillow manz. I dont think anyone buy those materials to do Ring Pillow. Not even for business because its going to add to the cost and way over budget.
These designs are pretty big using the bigger hoop. Per design is > 30mins and this excludes the time spent for changing threads colors/stabiliser/bobbin etc. In all, if nothing screw up, it will take abt 1hr each and if something screw up, might be more than 1.5hrs for per design (exclude fonts). So u see, very waste of time. and u cannot really go away from the machine. Sometimes the machine foot get jammed or stucked because of the top stabiliser used. if i dont use stabiliser, i wont face such problem but the thread might 'sink in' into the towels and the end result is not nice.
Some threads are not well shown as the stabiliser hasnt been washed off/dissolved.
This is the failed towel. Failed because of the Fairy eyes.... something wrong with the design so cant be helped. Since I already embroidered on it, then just pass to the swap partner.
There is this tiny portion of the brown dino face outside of the outline... cant be helped le... i am now getting less confident embroidering on towels. They tend to move more on the hoop. And when there's outlines for that particular design, i'm worried that the outlines might fall out of the satin stitches... piang ehh. 
This is the test out of the Ring Pillow I am going to do for my friend. I will have to enlarge the font size and figure out how to reposition the names.
