Originally Posted by
Weezy Rider
I have a basic Cricut, but there is an aftermarket program that lets you design on the computer and you only need one cartridge. I'd probably go for the Silhouette so I can use Inkscape or Illustrator for the vector files.
The first embroidery machines did a scan and sew. Brother had the software.
I have 5D pro and can still scan in a picture and digitize it including turning a picture into a portrait. I do like Brother's picture feature on thier machines though, along with the snowman. I love my Viking but I'm sure there are machines out there that have additional features that I'd love to have one; like the ones I just mentioned but wouldn't give up the other features my machine has for it. I've never heard of Silhouette or inkscape so I'll check them out. I think its great when a new gizmo comes out that can possibly improve what we are doing or faster and allows us to do more.