Love them ALL! Esp the horses. Gorgeous!
Sandy

Terial Magic vs. stabilizer
 

I played with Terial Magic last night. I put it to the test for machine embroidery. You pre-treat the fabric with it which stiffens it. You can then embroider a design without using stabilizer. I chose a large design (the largest I have ever had the patience for.) It was a design that came loaded on my Janome 9900. 34,900 stitches/89 minutes. 7 thread changes.

I was impressed with the results and Terial Magic washed out so quickly! Not sure that I would use it for all embroidery but for designs where you don't want the stabilizer backing; an option. You can see how stiff it makes the fabric where the hoop was. You can use Terial Magic for photo printing and for use with the fabric cutters such as the Silhouette or Scan n Cut. It really stiffens!

Sandy

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The horses are on a cd by Floriani I believe if you go to www.florianisoftware.com you will be able to purchase it. I changed the colors from the original to more browns.mHave fun.

LoveQuilting22, those baby cloths and that baby quilt are adorable! Were the designs built-in on your Esante? Good work.

Glad to see this thread. I have a Babylock Unity and I'm still on the learning curve with it. Can anyone recommend a computer program to convert files to PES?

Free format conversion programs..Pulse Ambassador, Wings' My Editor, WilcomTrusizer...these come to mind immediately. I've not used Wilcom, but love Pulse and Editor. So much more you can do with My Editor, but there's a couple or more formats it does not recognize that Pulse does. Easy to use!

Hi Rennie,

Thanks for the compliment. :)

i believe that the butterfly and heart on the baby quilt (my first quilt ever) were designs built in and the pink baby design on the burp cloths as well. I downloaded the moon for free from an embroidery website. (I can look it up if you're interested) The apple tree is also a standard design in my machine, which I love. The Cincinnati guy was a custom order. That was my practice round. Those baby gifts were a huge hit. Two different babies, but still a hit. :) Appreciate the feedback.

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Rennie, all of these designs are standard in my machine as well. The bibs were a gift, the rest were part of three separate embroidered towel orders. :) Not too shabby for a newbie :) I added the extra stitching on the purple towels. The hardest part for me is placement. But I'm still learning.

LoveQuilting22,
You do beautiful work! What stabilizers did you use for these?

I'm sorry, but this is not true. In 2006, the holding company that had just brought Singer out of yet another bankruptcy acquired VSM(who owned Viking and Pfaff) keeping it out of bankruptcy. So in a sense Singer did buy Viking. The machines for all three brands are made in Shanghai China. This is straight from the SVP website.

Cari

The reason there are so many people selling licensed designs and getting away with it now is because they are stretching the meaning of the First Sale Doctrination. Making copies of the design cards or disks and selling them is technically the illegal part, but it's sort of splitting hairs. Selling a licensed product you've bought, or selling a hand made item you've made using a licensed design or fabric, is not illegal, no matter what copyright holders say any longer. This went all the way to the supreme court. Justice Stevens handed down the ruling saying this-
"The whole point of the First Sale Doctrination is that once the copyright owner puts a copyrighted item into the stream of commerce by selling it, he has exhausted his exclusive statutory rights to control it's distribution."

Of course Disney and other manufacturers of licensed products don't want this ruling to be widely known to the public, but there it is. I've had this discussion several times at my LQS when someone over hears us talking about the sports themed items I make and sell.

Cari

For the or the bottom, I used Sulky 12-Inch by 11-Yard Tear-Easy Stabilizer Roll and on the top, I used Sulky Water Soluable stabilizer. I am pretty new at this embroidery stuff, but I am happy with the way these things came out. Thanks for looking!

does anyone use a magnetic hoop? when does it work well or not? it sounds so easy.

coffeecozy,
I have the magnetic 5x7 hoop and it works wonderful! I own a Babylock Spirit and it worked well with the last baby quilts I did since they were sandwiched already. Works very well with towels and even with cotton. I only use it though for those fabrics that I don't want hoop burn and it pretty much works well for me with all types of fabric and NO HOOP BURN! :o Hope this helped!

I agree that the 5x7 Snap Hoop Monster is AWESOME. the larger Magna Hoop, not so much.

The boxes that both of my two Vikings came in along with the website say made in Sweeden. I'll trust that. If you look at what you wrote Singer did not buy out Viking, just the opposite. You said VSM (who already owned Viking) bought out Singer then Viking bought out Singer. YOu said that Singer bought out Viking. It doesn't really matter. The machines are all great and we buy more from over seas than we realize. We can try as much as possible to buy all American made but with so many countries being able to make parts cheaper not all American made products are 100% American made. I actually have/have had 4 machines total that are Viking and can't say a bad word about any of them. I also have a 25yr old Singer that is great but would be leary about buying one today because of their reputation.

Well, that's not exactly what I said but you're right, in the grand scheme of things it's not what's important. We all have our favorite machines. I've never owned a Viking, my newest Singer is from 1955 and I did have a Pfaff 93 and hated it. I wouldn't buy a new Singer either.

Cari

thank you for you input on the magnetic hoop. i have a pfaff machine and i picked up the magnetic hoop for it. it's raining here today so it's a perfect day to hang out in my sewing room and give it a try.

I really love the 5x7 mag hoop for my Diamond Deluxe. I love it so much that when my first one came up missing, I paid the cost to buy another one. Not that much difference in cost over what you'd pay for a standard hoop.

I have a magnetic hoop for my Viking Ruby. LOVE it!

I bought the software awhile back...still haven't figured out how to transfer design to machine! I can get it how I want it and that's as far as it goes! So frustrating. I even cornered mr. Floriani himself and he tried to get it thru my thick skull...some day maybe!

Crqltr, I am not able to figure out the process of transferring the pattern to my machine either. Will be watching this thread for some instructions! :)

Embroidery Library offers a tutorial that might help with transferring designs to your machine from your computer. This tutorial tells you how to transfer from the computer to a USB stick then to the computer.

http://www.emblibrary.com/EL/help.as...ransferringUSB

also they have lots of help tips... http://www.emblibrary.com/el/Help.aspx

I have a Baby Lock and purchased the software from Designer's Gallery to convert files to PES along with many other nice features. It is the Studio III and also the Embroidery Works Everyday has the same feature to convert files and many more options to merge designs, etc. Neither software products digitize.

Has anyone seen the video and/or bought the Hoop-De-Doo system? What do you think about it?

http://www.sharonschamber.com/Produc...tCode=HDDBasic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Mls8QbI5A

Cari

I have a question. You all helped me before so here we go again. Some one gave me a ton of Molnlycke thread. I have tried to look online to see what it is made of. I can use 100% poly. on my machine but it does not say anywhere on any of the thread what it is. Also when you order designs online and download them , can you see a picture of what they are? I can not. I print the pictures when I order them and have to look up the # and transfer to my machine.
The lady that had the thread had a big nice embroidery machine but her daughter took it when she passed , but none of the rest of her stuff. Thanks for any help.

Never heard of that brand of thread, but give it a try. Your machine
might run good with it.

As for being able to see an image of your designs, I use the Embrilliance
Thumbnailer program. I love it.

i found this this to give you a wee bit of info on that thread. http://exquisite-fabrics.blogspot.ca...07/thread.html
Hope the link works.

Thanks so much. Sunlover53 , I did see that but it talked about being sold so many times I did not know if it would still be poly. I think I will try it. What can it hurt. I probably have 200 spools. It is on the old gray plastic spools.

Update.... On the very bottom of the box I spool had the wrap on it and it said 100% poly. YEA!!!!!! Cant wait to try it and see if it is still strong. Have no idea how old it is.

If you would like to know more about this type of thread I found this site:
http://exquisite-fabrics.blogspot.co...07/thread.html

There are emb programs out there that can help with this. I know that Brother has one and as long as all of your files are in the one folder they show up as pictures with the orginal names. The nice thing about it is that first the program is under 100 and it doesn't care what file extension it is as long as its in one folder. 6D pro also has an explorer now that I was able to download to use with my 5D so I can see my designs without inserting the dongle and all. I'm sure there are others.

My first set of cloth napkins with machine embroidered squares!
 

I just finished my first set ever of cloth napkins for a swap. I put an embroidered square in each corner.

Nice job sewred! Love the fabric and its colors!

How pretty!

It's software that helps you change the formats, etc.

sewred, love the napkins.

different machine brands work differently- for example my Babylock you can open in the "files" and click and drag onto a USB. My sister has a Janome and she has to put it in a folder named EMB then a sub folder named EMBF.

Please forgive me for not reading all 94 pages of this thread, to search for the answer to my question! :shock:

I recently bought a Brother PE770 embroidery machine. It came with a spool of Brother bobbin thread, which says #90 weight. Since I'm a Superior thread fan, I'm wondering if I can substitute one of their threads . . . but it seems their finest thread is #60. Any advice? Should I just bite the bullet and order more Brother #90, when I run out?

Thanks for any advice/help!