www.cuteembroidery.com is a nice site---active community --questions & answers...and daily freebies. You can join for 6mo. at a time, or just register and participate.
http://www.sewforum.com/ is another to register and enjoy lots of info (questions answered by other members). Forums are seperated for embroidery, digitizing requests of members, quilting, sewing, lots of interesting subjects here. n embroidery section with lots of freebies as well as the free digitizing or pay digi'ing.