Who has bought a machine embroidery membership.
Looking at
yourembroidery designs.com
69.00 for 2000 designs
Any others that you are happy with?
Thanks Gale

i paid 54.00 year at embroiderydk.com full access.

There are many forums that offer free designs. As in all designs you should stitch them out on scrap fabric first. I get tons of free designs from SewForum.com. When I find one that stitches out good I tend to download that persons designs. You will have to join, but its free just need name etc. This site has been very helpful to me in offerring designs and answering many many many questions regarding emb. Hope this helps you.

I am really new at this embrodiery thing, even though I have had my machine for a couple of years now, I am trying to get going on the embrodiery part (been quilting instead)so I thank you for any great tips and ideas I get here!!!

There are tons of free designs to get online. I agree with the rest stitch a practice first. ask me how I know??? haha
Good luck you will love doing the embroidery! I am still pretty new to all of it and love it!

Yes I know about the freebies also have bought a couple for specif things and they can add up!
I also have a dics with 1100 designs came with my janome just want something different.
Thanks Gale

I joined Designs by Sick for 45 dollars and got some fabulous designs and they have thousands took me two days to get through all of them and pick what I wanted They have all sewed out well.

I just went to that site..they have tons of stuff I can see why it took you two days to get through it all...did you get a year membership or was it 6 months? I might have to think about this! Thanks for sharing the site with us.

If I remember right I got a years and it is about up so I go everyday to see if they have anthing new.

I buy from Designs By Sick too. They have one page of their design groups on sale every half hour for $1 per set (about 10 to 12 designs). The page changes every half hour. They are very helpful and even talked me through downloading the first batch of designs that I bought from them. I don't have yearly or 6 month membership but the regular prices are low.

I have over 10,000 free designs that I've collected over the years. With my new 64 bit computer, I can't even see them or download them on to floppys. Am waiting until the get the fixes in place before buying all sorts of very expensive software. I do have 330 Floppys with pictures of each design so I can still enjoy embroidery while waiting for Software to catch up with the newest computers. Love my designer one.

Wow Joanie...I guess you have enough to keep you busy for awhile. :) Thats awesome. I am very new to this but love to surf looking for designs.

I really like Artistic Threadworks!
They offer some designs free every day and they are constantly changing.

They also offer a $1 trial membership for 21 days.

http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/public/main.cfm

I have been very happy with the quality of thier designs and the customer service and support.

Joanie, For $25.00 you can get a program that will work for your new computer that will let you see all your designs on your computer.It's called SewIconz
For $40.00 you can get a cataloguing program that can help you find and sort your designs.This one is called SewCat.
You can find them at www.sandscomputing.com. They also have free trials of all of their products.
I have 18 gigs of designs and find their products very user friendly and economical.
I bought a lifetime membership from Designs by Sick. Each year I usually pick a site and join for that year only.

Joanie...I have used BuzzCatalog (BuzzTools) for years to convert and view designs. I now have Vista 64 bit and it works the same as my old computer did. I had to buy a floppy drive for my computer to download designs as my embroidery machine is 7 years old and only takes floppy's or cards.

In addition, they have happy hour occassionally and all design sets are 1.00, right now they have a back to school sale. All design sets $1.75. And when you buy, you get points so that when you buy singles you can get them sometimes free with your points.