I have join many yahoo groups but wasn't getting as much "out" of
these groups as I wanted (and I am not exactly sure what I was wanting).

The embroidery group I am part of now is at "Designs By Sick"
This just works for ME (nothing wrong with any of the others just wasn't for me).

About a month ago I asked my father in law for help in creating
an Access database for my embroidery designs. Since that is the
kind of work he does I knew it would be a "breeze" for him to help
me arrange the fields into a format I thought would work good for
me when it came to searching.


What he is doing is blowing my mind away. He is literately writing
special code and "building" the database from the back end. He worked
on that ALL weekend (Memorial Day weekend) while we was at the cabin.


He didn't call it "work" he called it a "fun task".


Dang I love my wonderful father in law! I am excited to see the finished product.

Really awesome !!!

Lucky girl, I would love him too.....it is a problem searching for special designs..it takes plenty of time for me

When you have OVER 175,000 designs from MANY (104+) different
designers/websites you need all the help you can get.

The database dad is building for me is going to be searchable through
several (3-4) different ways.

Lucky you He must be one great father in law.

I have the Brother PE500 and I love it! I have NO problem finding plenty of cheap and free things to put on baby items for my grand daughter. HOWEVER, I have started doing applique patterns and I am finding many of the DL is NOT exactly same as the applique. I have not ruined anything but I have sure messed up a few things. Another thing I found out you need to do ball point on certain items as it will not stitch well. I have learned the tear away stabilizer doesn't do well with onesies or stretch type material. Anyone else doing onesies? Or applique? Love to hear from you.

I have a Bernina 830, I cannot afford £1000 for the embroidery software are there any other cheaper designs that I could use or down load that are compatible? I have a laptop with windows 7 I'm not a Mac user .

Louise that so wonderful to hear! Like you I have close the amount of designs that you have from several sites. At this time I have them on a usb flash drive that has a large memory capacity. Let us know the outcome!

Bjhumes, I have used iron-on stabilizer. Knit fabric tends to stretch though at times I have also used Sulky spray on the cutaway for knits. For onesies since they are small I have found that using the iron on one (they do peel off after the design) works. Also I used Floriani no mesh since it is soft on the child's skin. There are others here that may have other ideas as well.

Stella, there are several embroidery software options available that are not nearly that expensive. I use Embrilliance myself, which cost less than $200 for the basic software (it's really not all that basic, but there are other modules you can add over time). I also recall seeing someone say that there is at least one option that is free, but I don't know what that might be. But honestly, if you aren't going to do any changes to your embroidery, you can just buy the Embrilliance thumbnail program to see what you have. You don't really NEED software just to download designs.