Embroidery

I wanted to use my sewing machine to do some embroidery but unfortunately it's not working so I'm having to sew by hand, this means that something that should take 10 minutes on a machine is taking nearly an hour doing it by hand as I'm not that great at sewing. I also wanted to use some water soluble stabiliser I bought as I'd seen some good ways to use it but as I can't use my sewing machine I'll just have to wait until I have access to another one. I want to add a bit more to this but I'm going to wait until I can use a machine as it will give me better results.