This was meant to go in my previous post but I managed to miss it, it is a link to the sister site of the embroidery one that you were given, it has all sorts of tips and techniques to use.

It can give you more details than I can in a short post or two and there is even video demonstrations that you can follow along.

http://www.embroiderylibraryprojects.com/

Feel free to ask more questions as well as I also have been embroiderying for years.

You should buy the Nancy Zieman book on Machine Embroidery!
She breaks down stablizers, needles and thread types...
Very good "teaching" book and also has some projects to try out what you have learned!
I refer to this constantly when I need advice!!

Worth every penny!

I have the Emore machine and love it!
:P :P

Thanks, will be going to JoAnne's tomorrow, so will look for it. Appreciate your help.

Going to check it out, sure is a lot of patterns to look at. Now to figure out how to use a memory stick and download. thanks

They make it easy on the site on how to do it all, that is one reason that they have free designs every month so that you can learn how to download. I love the site and have a bunch of their designs.

When you do download them, make sure that you keep them organized from the start, otherwise you will get frustrated in trying to find the ones that you want.

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Oh wonderful! Could you help me i hope? I need to find a really good digitzier. I need to have a local artist's paintings turned into stitches!
Way outta my league!

Any references would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,

Feel free to ask more questions as well as I also have been embroiderying for years. [/quote]

Oh wonderful! Could you help me i hope? I need to find a really good digitzier. I need to have a local artist's paintings turned into stitches!
Way outta my league!

Any references would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,[/quote]

I have also been digitizing for years, but I would need to see the paintings before saying if I can do it or not. I got a new program a little bit ago and still learning the ins and outs of it.

Have another question...Do I purchase an embroidery software program and how would I transfer to my machine?

From looking at the site for your machine, it looks like they have a flash drive that goes with their machines, In your manual it should say, now if all you want to do is get designs and load them on, that should work, if you want to change the design any while it is on the computer, you would need a program to do that. there are a variety of them out there, some are universal, will work with any of the machines. There are different levels of programs, some you can do designs from scratch, some just modify exsisting designs.

I just checked the site for a flash drive...there is one, but where would I pick one up? Can this one be ordered on line or do I have to go thru a dealer?