Embroidery Machines Lets Chat & Have Fun
#2531
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 442
Agreed ... I hate Windows 8. It is a fight to do anything with it! I use Embird but find myself going back to the "office" computer to use it with Windows 7. I just got a Brother 770D and have been trying to sign up for a group for that - haven't had any luck. Is anyone on a Brother Embroidery Group on the computer?
Rene
North Carolna
Rene
North Carolna
#2532
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Snowy Minnesota
Posts: 1,378
While you are all wonderful folks, I am new to machine embroidery and would like to find a more active board on the topic than this one. Can you recommend one where a beginner might be able to read a lot? When I began quilting, I learned soooooo much from the Quilting Board. I'd like to find something similar for machine embroidery.
Thanks for any help you can offer. (FWIW, I have a Bernina 635 with embroidery attachments.)
Thanks for any help you can offer. (FWIW, I have a Bernina 635 with embroidery attachments.)
#2533
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Oregon City, OR
Posts: 214
While you are all wonderful folks, I am new to machine embroidery and would like to find a more active board on the topic than this one. Can you recommend one where a beginner might be able to read a lot? When I began quilting, I learned soooooo much from the Quilting Board. I'd like to find something similar for machine embroidery.
Thanks for any help you can offer. (FWIW, I have a Bernina 635 with embroidery attachments.)
Thanks for any help you can offer. (FWIW, I have a Bernina 635 with embroidery attachments.)
#2534
Sushi, try sewforum.com. You'll find lots of free designs there, too. Wonderful people there. Also don't miss out on cuteembroidery.com - at the top you'll find a tab for "community" - lots of terrific folks there, too.
#2535
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Midwest
Posts: 5,051
Sewforum. They do lean more "embroidery. I visit there often esp. Since I recently replaced my sew/combo machine in November.
sandy
sandy
#2537
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Org. Texas now Florida
Posts: 847
Agreed ... I hate Windows 8. It is a fight to do anything with it! I use Embird but find myself going back to the "office" computer to use it with Windows 7. I just got a Brother 770D and have been trying to sign up for a group for that - haven't had any luck. Is anyone on a Brother Embroidery Group on the computer?
Rene
North Carolna
Rene
North Carolna
i still have all of my designs on my old
computer, but I don't have internet on my
windows XP. Don't want any chance of a virus
or someone messing with my designs.
I have the old .pes 2 and when the .pes 4 came out
i could not bring them up in my version, however
i got around that by taking the pes 2 over to Embird,
And changing it to another extension like .hus AND THEN
changing it back to a .pes and saving that pes to my pes 2
And now I could work with the pes 4 just like my pes.
i have over a thousand designs on the old computer and on
the old 3 1/2 disk. I bought an adapter ( 29.00 ) for the disk
so I could save those designs and put them on a CD.
Anyway. Lol
#2538
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 3,536
I must be the RARE exception about Windows 8, although I am 8.1
now.
Totally LOVE 8.1 my Floriani software AND my PED Basic work fine
on my computer. Never have had Embrid or any other box or software
before so I can't give my thoughts on that.
But so far everything I have used in the past on my Windows 7 computer,
laptop and netbook have worked fine for me.
I will admit it DID take me a little time to locate the correct driver to make
my PED Basic box work but since getting the driver no problems.
As I am getting new designs (when I can remember to do it), I am opening
the file in my FES, save them in c2s than save to PES v.9.
I run 3 different daily backups of all my designs.
1St to my secondary HD
2nd to an off site cold storage
3rd to flash drives (I have 12 different flash drives of various storage size)
Yes I KNOW this is over kill, but for ME it is well worth the extra time
that it takes just be sure that I don't loose any of my designs. Heard
to many stories of people not having good backups of their designs and
ends up with none.
now.
Totally LOVE 8.1 my Floriani software AND my PED Basic work fine
on my computer. Never have had Embrid or any other box or software
before so I can't give my thoughts on that.
But so far everything I have used in the past on my Windows 7 computer,
laptop and netbook have worked fine for me.
I will admit it DID take me a little time to locate the correct driver to make
my PED Basic box work but since getting the driver no problems.
As I am getting new designs (when I can remember to do it), I am opening
the file in my FES, save them in c2s than save to PES v.9.
I run 3 different daily backups of all my designs.
1St to my secondary HD
2nd to an off site cold storage
3rd to flash drives (I have 12 different flash drives of various storage size)
Yes I KNOW this is over kill, but for ME it is well worth the extra time
that it takes just be sure that I don't loose any of my designs. Heard
to many stories of people not having good backups of their designs and
ends up with none.
#2539
Help for a silly question
I have not had my machine out in over a year!!! I would like to make a few blocks but I forgot.......
1: Do I complete the design on the block then square up to the size I need.
2: or do I cut my block to size, then center the design and go from there.
Sorry for the silly question but my brain appears to be on strike this week..........
1: Do I complete the design on the block then square up to the size I need.
2: or do I cut my block to size, then center the design and go from there.
Sorry for the silly question but my brain appears to be on strike this week..........
#2540
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Oregon City, OR
Posts: 214
I have not had my machine out in over a year!!! I would like to make a few blocks but I forgot.......
1: Do I complete the design on the block then square up to the size I need.
2: or do I cut my block to size, then center the design and go from there.
Sorry for the silly question but my brain appears to be on strike this week..........
1: Do I complete the design on the block then square up to the size I need.
2: or do I cut my block to size, then center the design and go from there.
Sorry for the silly question but my brain appears to be on strike this week..........
I tend to do the design and then square up later. That is unless I am doing an in the hoop quilt block and then I hoop a larger piece of muslin and then center the block over the placement lines.
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