Yippee!!!!!!

My FIL just called me said he has my database ready for trial run #1.

He will talk me through everything see if there are any changes I want
made.

Now for the email to get here.

That is great Louise! Hope it comes out the way you needed it.

Messed up stitching
 

Some time ago I posted something I read about when you get a bird's nest while stitching, remove the foot to get the embroidery out of the machine without too much damage. Fortunately, I have not had the chance to give it a try - until yesterday.
I didn't have a bird's nest, but the embroidery came up at one corner, and somehow got caught over the foot and the machine kept stitching. What a mess! I unscrewed the needle, but it couldn't come out so I unscrewed the foot. Took some doing but I did manage to get the whole mess out of the machine.
I wasn't able to save the piece, but it was so much easier to release it from the machine.
I didn't like the colors anyway!

I have been working with my new database for a couple weeks, and
am now on version 1.05-bld01.

Only 78 designs have been entered so far. It is going to take me a LONGGGGG
time to get all my designs entered. But I KNOW that there are MANY MANY MANY
duplicate designs that I will be deleting so hopefully I can bring the # of designs
down, plus I am tossing all the cheap looking designs.

I have a Brother Innovis 1200. I use it mainly for my quilt labels and personalization on projects for my grandkids. I would like to do more but I can not get my computer and machine to recognize each other. My teacher at my classes could not either. I would love a group, especially seeing all these cute quilts. I already own tons of pez files!

Jratcliff that must've been a nightmare but glad you got it out! In a month I'm going to take my Babylock Spirit for its maintenance.

following and book marking. need to learn how to use my janome 6600P using more embroid. stictches.

Stella, why don't you start with <cite style="FONT-STYLE: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">http://www.wingssystems.com/index.php/products/myeditor/ It is free, and you can view images of your downloaded designs, change formats & colors, alter size, rotate, cut away parts you don't like, merge 2 designs together--and much more. Or you could try Pulse Ambassador-- </cite>
It shows the image, changes colors, reformats, prints w/all thread info.
Free viewer <cite style="FONT-STYLE: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">http://www.sharewareconnection.com/pesview.htm</cite> or

a free viewer from Embroidermodder....there are several more but I like My Editor and Pulse when I choose not to connect my P E Design software. Or you can try some 30 day trials before you consider buying. There's Embird,

http://www.sandscomputing.com/id47.html (sewwhatpro & other choices) If you only want to see images of your designs, I have Embrilliance Thumbnailer and I love it, because all my designs are images all the time...there are many formats you can set it to display, and it only cost about $40. When I unzip a folder with many designs, it shows the image of the one that is my format--the rest are just icons. Try the free stuff before making an expensive decision--it all depends on what you want to do right now!
OOPS...unless your machine uses the .srt format. In that case you will have to buy the Bernina software to do anything, or so I have heard.

Has anyone embroidered on a velvet like fabric?

Do you have some good tips for doing this?

I haven't but I know that emblibrary.com has some tutorials (of course). I do know they make a heat soluable stabilizer for fabric that you don't want to get wet. Good luck, wish I knew more.