CNC Embroidery?

Hi, All,


I'm a lurker, and rare poster on this group.

A few years ago, I saw CNC sewing machines for embroidery. That was
years before I CNC'ed my Sherline and knew nothing about CNC. Now I
got interested in making one to embroider shirts for a club I'm in.
I have a couple of light duty (120 in-oz) motors and a stepper
controller just sitting around and I'm considering making one.

Can anybody point me to info on CNC'ing a sewing machine for
embroidery? I would think a 2 dimensional table approach would be
okay, since the head goes up and down so little. I'm thinking
steppers driving chain cogs and chains - something I can take from
my spare bike parts. I'm sure there's lots of embroidery stuff I
don't know (like, say, just about all of it) and I would hate to do
something so non-standard that nothing worked with it. I don't even
have a sewing machine around the house to play with.

I searched around the last 10,000 posts on this group and didn't see
anything.



Thanks,
Bob
Montana_Aardvark