romanojg

So far nothing. Maybe we should start a new link where everyone signs in if they think it's a good idea to create us a link; like a petition of sorts. I don't know, but there are lots of people on here that do embroidery and also use it for quilting. They say they don't want to make this site too much about crafting but you have links for recipes and other non-related sewing (let alone quilting) things. I think everyone would gain from it. There are always people who say they bought their machine and never or hardly ever used the embroideried part of it. I've even this past week or so seen more than one person wanting answers to embroideried questions but didn't see this link. There is a need for it which is proven if you look at how many Yahoo groups there are out there. I'd like to be able to go to one place and get my quilting/embroidery information/answers all together. Most of us are so busy we don't have time to search for good groups on the net. Maybe one day they'll see it that way. I don't look at embroidering as a craft at all.

romanojg

I do wish you lots of luck and I'll see if I can find any other suggestions out for you. Let me know how it turns out.

mermaid

[QUOTE=romanojg;5264877][QUOTE=deplaylady;5264336]I have a separate computer just for my embroidery. I really had too -

I did the same thing. My daughter had my larger laptop and she broke it and left me with my little netbook. There is no way I could scroll up and down trying to do designs on it. When I was sure I was buying the 5D I went out and bought a 17" laptop. It makes it so much eaiser to work with designs when you can see it all on one screen. I really want to get into designing my own designs and adding cutwork to alot of designs so that my needles can do the work. It is so easy to find cutwork designs but most aren't designed to work with the cutwork needles. I needed to be able to see it all on one screen to do this. It was hard enought reading my email.[/QUOTE

My friend has a little netbook & had trouble seeing her designs on it--so she added a 15" or 17" monitor hooked to it and now she is loving it! So this is an alternative to buying a larger laptop! Savings!!

almond

One thing that might help getting a machine emb. section, is everytime I see an embroidery question, I refer them to this thread by using search and then finding embroidery machines lets chat. I figure the more we have looking & responding, it will show a much needed section. I love this thread. I learn lots and I do not consider it a craft as much as a quilting technique.

romanojg

My friend has a little netbook & had trouble seeing her designs on it--so she added a 15" or 17" monitor hooked to it and now she is loving it! So this is an alternative to buying a larger laptop! Savings!![/QUOTE]

I was going to do that with my 22in monitor that I already have. My daughter doesn't live with me anymore and she'll borrow my laptop and take it to her house and forget to bring it back or I'll not think I need it and will tell her to keep it overnight. Then that night I'll get an idea and can't do anything because she's got my laptop. I just decided mess on it. I still only let my daughter "borrow" my netbook because she's hard on them and I want to hold onto it for a backup. I have an old one with XP on it that I might give to her after I decide if I'm selling my magic box that went with my old machine or not. The magic box doesn't like the newer operating systems.

Krystyna

Like many of you, I use my embroidery machine for quilting but I also embroider designs on the veils I make. Other than that, I embroider quilty motifs on t-shirts for quilting buddies. Love these that are now in the mail ... to ???

quiltnut4ever

Me me me krystyna me!

newbee3

I download my designs on my computer, in a special folder. Then I put them on a cd. This is the way my software will let me see the pictures and the colors. It also gives me a back-up.

Quilty-Louise

Lets see where shall I start.

First

YES I totally agree that this thread SHOULD have it's own
section, as more and more people who own or are getting
embroidery machines discover that they can also enhance
their quilts with embroidery blocks and labels. I wonder if
we all sent in the request if that would help or hurt us? with
our luck it would hurt. But it is so hard to keep this post on
page one towards the top.

Second

As for storing my designs. Well I have over 100k designs
so I started with a folder on my computer desktop labeled
as "PES" (the format my machines take). But a few months
ago I moved that folder to the "library" section.

Now as for computers, I have 1 desktop, 1 notebook, and 1
netbook. All of my designs are on the desktop, but recently
I decided to setup my netbook as my "MAIN" design computer
in the sewing room, I dedicated this netbook for that purpose
because I was able to connect my newest embroidery machine
to a computer via a USB cable (which it came with). From there
I pulled out one of my (I have 5) 16 gig flash drives and saved
ALL of my designs to it.

However now I have an issue with even doing it that way as I am
ALWAYS getting new designs (downloaded to may desktop) and
I don't get them over to the flash drive like I should.

When I get designs I create folders with the name of where I got
them from (such as embroidery library, designs by sick, etc..) so
when I get new designs from a website I save them to the right
folder. Many times if I get designs for a "special" reason such as
for the June Doll Quilt swap I purchased a couple designs that is
"related" to the theme and design of what the DQ will be in, so I
created a folder with that name "June Doll Quilt) and saved the
designs there so that they can be found faster. Also since I LOVE
making FSL I have 3 folders setup just for those, the first is for
BOOKMARKS only, the second is for CHRISTMAS only, and the
last is for all other FSL designs.

However I HOPE to someday get ALL my designs folders reworked
and a different "sorting" system in place for them and make it as
easy to work with as I possibly can (I have tried MANY things over
the past 6-1/2 years).


HAPPY EMBROIDERY everyone (and on everything).

MzMcKee

I have a Brother ULT2003, a work horse!