A few things I have been working on. The Easter egg is from OESD. I will use more pastel colors next time I do one. My flock continues to grow. Designs from Embroidery Library. My embroidery is "on hold" for a bit as my machine had to go back to the factory :( [ATTACH=CONFIG]570932[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]570933[/ATTACH]

Sophie...its beautifull...what a shame about the machine....

These are wonderful! I'm eager to see what you do next.

Ive done alot with my cheap Brother 4 in embroidery machine but would like to go larger so I can quilt a quilt with embroidery.
Which is best card or disk in a machine?
How big of an embroidery area is best?
Would like to do 12 in blocks with it.

Cards and discs are old technology now, most all of todays embroidery machines use USB flash drives. What brand to buy is a personal decision, you're likely to get as many opinions as there are machines. And your budget will play an important part in your decision. I'm partial to Janome and Brother, though I'm really sold on Janome for embroidery. The Janome 500e is my favorite of all 5 of my embroidery machines. It's an expensive machine but oh, so worth it.

Cari

[QUOTE=Cari-in-Oly;7797362]Cards and discs are old technology now, most all of todays embroidery machines use USB flash drives. What brand to buy is a personal decision, you're likely to get as many opinions as there are machines. And your budget will play an important part in your decision. I'm partial to Janome and Brother, though I'm really sold on Janome for embroidery. The Janome 500e is my favorite of all 5 of my embroidery machines. It's an expensive machine but oh, so worth it.

LOL Cari...I am looking at this Janome 500 wondering if to buy this one or the BrotherBP2100..... cannot make up my mind....I am far away from dealers....decision must be smart....

That's my understanding also. You can use Disney designs until the cows come home for your personal use, give as gifts, but you CANNOT sell any. And I believe Ibroidery is Brother's designs site. Seems to me if you can buy Disney designs from them, you can stitch them out no matter what machine you have. My machine came with them, but have no grandchildren so never use them. The few times I have used them, I stopped the stitching before it stitched out the word Disney.

You have to register your machine when you join Ibroidery. You have to choose your machine from a drop down list and if your machine isn't on that list, you can't buy Disney designs. I found this out because I bought a D machine so I could buy Disney designs and when I signed up, because my machine isn't on the list I can't buy the designs. PE400D.

Cari

This is true. The thing is that there are stores that represent Brother and those stores are allowed to sell the designs. I know they are legal because when they have the events and the Brother representative is there they are selling them and nothing is said. Brother has lots of ways for you to buy their stuff and to learn on their machines. Just like if their is an event and a Brother ambassador is teaching, she can only teach on Brother machines. We had this happen last year when the Brother sergers were messing up the ambassador couldn't go into the room with the Babylock sergers and teach us. Even though she uses both machines in her office. When you buy designs from a rep they don't ask what machine you have when you want to buy a design. I wasn't asked what machine I have when I went to iBroidery either. I have a great machine that will emb any design but I bought a Brother that is made for Disney designs so that I don't have to worry. Now the designs that come on the machines, those you can't copy off of the machine, it won't let you. You can't even transfer them to another Disney machine. I have tons of grandkids and great grandkids so I wanted to be able to do my Disney. I won a stand alone machine and traded it in for one that did Disney even though my Viking can do any design. I did that so I don't have to worry about it.

I got some designs at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival using a less dense design and mylar under the stitching. Has
anyone done this before?