Anybody's Wife Into Machine Embroidery?

[Doc Tinker]

I guess this thread disappeared in the transition, so I'm starting it again.



Mrs Doc has a Bernina Embroidery Machine and has just spent a bunch of what could have been truck BOMB money for a few neat programs and a card reader/writer to convert design formats.



If your wife is interested in trading designs and corresponding with Mrs Doc (Becky) they can reach her either in this thread or here: -- email address removed --



Doc

 

[DRR-24V]

Embroidering Machines ?

I don'y know Doc. It would be physically demanding to twist all those machines together to make something. I doubt my Wife would have the strenth to do it as she is not very big.

 

[nixter]

Bernina...

Hey Doc, my Mom is big into the machine embroidery thing. Has a Bernina and a Deco, not sure if they are both embroidery machines but I'll look into it. She isn't into the card reader thing yet, $$$$$$. My I forward your wife's e-mail to her?





Nixter

 

[Doc Tinker]

Yeah nixter let your Mom have it. For the price of some of this stuff, I think all the home embroiderers need some help.



They don't tell you about all the built in limitations that these machines have. Everything is proprietary, even down to the file types.



They get over $100 for a card of designs that only a couple brands of machines can use. Two or three of those designs you might use more then once, if you go out of your way to find a reason to use them. It's not worth having your own machine, in my opinion.



The new hardware that Mrs Doc just got will allow you to write downloaded design files to the memory card. Actually, I writes to four different brands of memory cards. It's a nice gadget and makes the embroidery machine useful again, after sitting it a closet for a year.



Mrs Doc has the Deco scanner too, but I've tried to create designs with that and it's a pain in the rear to set up the design. You have to draw out the design in wide lines, in layers for each color. It's real time consuming. They now have software that will convert pictures into designs. They want too much money for that though, so we're still playing the waiting game.





Doc

 

[Jacobs]

Doc



Have Becky check out: http://www.annthegran.com



That site will keep your phone line in use.



Good Luck



Bruce