Happy Embroidery Machine Owner Reviews

Testimonials from Embroidery Business Owners

In Stitches Owner/Digitizer: Brenda Carr

Brenda Carr has been embroidering and digitizing designs for 10 years. In Stitches produces both small and commercial embroidery jobs, such as Combative sweatshirts for a special group in Germany, and sweatshirts and long sleeve t-shirts for the USA Soaring team. After noticing the HAPPY HCD embroidery machine sewing hats at a model airplane contest, she and her husband decided to purchase one. When asked why Brenda made HAPPY her choice, her reply was: "The machine is all metal, very durable." Other comments that Brenda made about HAPPY embroidery machines were: "Dealing with HAPPY has been a wonderful experience. I've had very few problems, and each time I have encountered a problem, it was taken care of in a very timely manner. I was also able to learn Stitch & Sew, the embroidery software very quickly. It was very easy to learn. After lots of research, my sister, who lives in Pennsylvania, decided to purchase a HAPPY machine as well. We are very happy."

U-N-I Specialties
Canyon Lake, Texas
Owner: Weldon "Buck" Brewer
www.wearables.us

Buck Brewer has been embroidering since 1995, and started serious production embroidery in 2001 with with the purchase of his first HAPPY machines - a 4-head and a 1-head. He has operated continuously since then, with business quickly filling the machines' capacity; later in 2001, he purchased another 4-head to meet the additional demand.
"I'm very happy with my HAPPYs," says Buck. "The Happy machines have been a very good machine for us."

U-N-I specialties does a lot of work sewing on finished caps, showcasing top-quality embroidered designs of many varieties. With the HAPPY machines' standard kit alone, U-N-I specialties is able to produce volume embroidery on a wide variety of wearables.

Dynamic Designs Owner: Cathy Manning

Cathy owns a HAPPY Voyager, and has a very interesting story to tell. What could have been a tragedy turned into an amazing story when her machine was dropped to the floor, and recovered with no major damage at all. Here is her story:

"A few months after I had purchased my HAPPY Voyager, we went to a craft show and took the machine for personalizing items. My husband was pushing the machine into the hall and didn't realize someone had stretched electrical cords across the path. The wheels on the cart hit the cord, and the machine went flying to the floor, throwing thread cones all over. The plastic case opened up, the thread holder broke, and I was beside myself. We picked it up and moved down to our space. I cleared the errors, used duct tape to hold the thread guide up, clicked the case closed, and pressed start. It sewed! And it sewed well. Nice job, HAPPY!"

-Cathy Manning, Owner of Dynamic Designs

         15313 Iris Lane
           Dumfries, VA 22025
           703-680-4219

Garden of Daisies Owner: JoAnn Connolly

JoAnn Connolly, a lifelong sewer, has taken embroidery business Garden of Daisies to another level with her ongoing efforts in creating Irish step dancing costumes. The dresses are wonderfully intricate and beautifully designed, and grew originally out of a challenge to provide costumes for her daughter's dance school. JoAnn and her partner Sally Ellingsen have been at it for 7 years now, and her recent efforts won her the People's Choice Award at the 2006 NNEP show in Nashville, Tennessee - part of the Stitches 2006 Stitch-off competition. Those who attended the NNEP show in 2006 were able to see the award-winning costume (pictured below) on display at the Stitches booth. Her business has produced over 300 equally-intricate dresses in what she has come to call "extreme sewing". JoAnn makes extensive use of appliqué in her dress designs - something handled easily and exactly with her two HAPPY HCA-1501 single-head machines.
The staff at TEXMAC are proud of JoAnn and her partner's achievement and the testament to the capabilities of HAPPY embroidery machines that they have become!