Embroidery

As the main decoration for this costume, I'm embroidering some of The Riley's song lyrics onto the Collar, Lapels, Decorative flap, and Cuffs.
I've borrowed the embroidery machine from Fashion within the University. However, despite having the machine for 3 years, there's no one who really knows how to use it. I got slight guidance on how to set up the machine and begin from a 3rd year Costume student, but that's as far as she got and therefore as much as she could show me. I've had to learn almost everything else that I needed to do on my own.
It's a very complex machine and so took me a while to figure out. And then the whole process is a very time consuming process.

I had to type in the lyrics that I wanted, change them to the font/size etc that I wanted (Kuntsler Script. Height - 11.90mm. Width 80%.) and then fit it inside the hoop otherwise it wouldn't transfer over to the sewing machine. Once I did get it over to the machine, there were some times that I would just let the machine carry on without me having to mind it (on these occasions I would put something heavy onto the pedal and carry on with something else at the same time). However, quite often, there were times when writing needed to be matched up, and I couldn't let the machine carry on otherwise it would overlap the embroidery I had already done.

Matching the writing up is what took the longest and stopped me from being able to carry on with anything else. Because of this, despite the result being a fairly effective decoration, I'm very far behind on everything else that I should be doing and now don't feel as though I'll get the project finished in time.

Because the embroidery wasn't part of my original time plan, I've now struggled to keep to this original time plan and will have to adapt.
I'm now behind on my time plan, but I will not rush to get this finished. I do not want this project to look rushed, I would rather finish this project properly after hand-in for the client.

In that last couple of days of having the embroidery machine, for some reason, it no longer sewed 'h's. This is just something I've just had to continue through because I couldn't change the font after already having embroidered some areas that were fine, and I couldn't stop because it needed to be finished. I tried to find out why it was no longer sewing 'h's but after rebooting the machine, starting all over again and it still continued, there was nothing else I could do.