WIP first top for the twins

It is beautiful! I wish I could afford a embroidery machine. Someday maybe. Misty

I saved for 4 months. Everytime I went to the store always broke a bill. Spend no change, put in jar when you get home. Yoy will be suprised at how much change you have at the end of the day.

Then went to sewvacdirect.com Got the Singer Futera CE100 for 399 free shiping had it in 4 days.

I spent 600 because I got the extra 3900 designs and the Auto Punch which will convert pictures to embroidery designs.

You did great, Ceanna! Saving change or starting an envelope is how I have most of my wants. But I am still hoping a Janome 6500 finds it's way to me. I have no use for an embroidery machine, but would love to try wearing out that 6500. Anyone have one to give away? :lol:

Nice work! What stabilizer did you use?

Your top is beautiful. I know nothing about embroidery machine except that I want one! Can you do regular sewing on it or only embroidery? Hope I don't sound dumb but as I said, I know nothing about them. I picture myself owning something like that once we retire and maybe doing baby bibs and such to sell at the flea market. Maybe, Maybe Maybe

I used a light weight tear away stablizer. As for the machine I have a Singer Futura CE100 I can also do regular sewing with it and it has 25 built in stiches at a touch of the display. When using the emb function you connect directly to your PC. It will use 12 differnt emb formats where most machines only use one. You don't need any speical card or disk to use it.

The price for it was under $500 and I had free shipping had it in 4 days of ordering it on line.

Hi,

You might be interested in a water-soluble sticky stabilizer - this will help eliminate the puckers around your design.

You can sew with an embroidery machine - I have a Pfaff 2144 and I use it for sewing, embroidery, and quilting.

Lisa

The price is right but once I get it home, there will be no way to hook up to a pc. Only one in the house and dh is always on it. I will need one with the cards I think and that would probably mke the price higher. But I want one I know that and will keep doing research. I think I will talk to the lady at the quilt shop in Yancey Co, Nc--(mtns) and see what she says. They sell Janome. I have to check it all out so I know what I can get for the money. wouldn't it be nice if someone here at work took up a collection and got me one :lol: The sun would start coming up in the West before that would happen. The will just wipe their forehead and say whew she's finally gone! I'll say whew! I can finally leave :lol:

Talk to DH maybe you can get him to let you use his computer for a few hours every day.

Or check Salvaction army or somewhere and find a used cheap computer

Try looking at joann.com they sell Viking, Husqvarna, and some Janome. I have a Pfaff and I can tell you that you don't need to be constantly hooked up to a pc - only when you are doing firmware updates or uploading new designs. My Pfaff has cards, but I find that I upload designs more from other websites. I do have a limited memory, but who wants to be stitching the same 8 or 10 designs all the time anyway? :roll:

Yes, I need to be conected to the computer while doing emb. but the same time the machine is emboridering I'm usualy here or looking for new designs or looking at new quilt blocks. I download any designs I buy right to the computer or to a CD. I now have over 4000 designs stored on my computer. I just open the machines program pick the design I want from the file or cd and push the bottom and it starts.

I have the Brother SE270D. It is under $400. It sews, quilts, embroiders...You do not have to be online to use it. With our dial-up, that wouldn't be possible anyway. It has some designs already in it. You can buy cards or buy the PED which will let you download designs from the internet or CDs. You can buy the downloads for as cheap as a dollar or two, but they can get expensive if you buy the more expensive ones.
I LOVE MINE!

I do not have to be on line to use the machine. The program is instaled on my computer. I'm just connected to a USB. So while the machine is working I am still free to use the computer. I do not need to buy cards or PED. If I see a design I like I just download it and save to a file folder I set up. I do copy all my files to disk so if I ever get a new computer I still have them all

I think maybe Buttercream's machine might be best for me since once we move the computer will be downstairs and the sewing machine upstairs. So I will need one thaqt can work independent of the computer. I am going to start saving. Hopefully we'll get a cost of living raise this year. We usually do but never know how much. The stock is way up there so I'm hoping it will be a 3.5 or 4% raise. I've been here 18 years so it finally has started to add up. But there are a lot of craft shows in the mtns of NC and southern TEnn so that might be an option--don't know till I try one. I like to do stuff like that, don't know if I want to do it all the time to sell, but am trying to figure out how to supplement retirement income. We won't starve, but might want extra income to go out to eat or take a trip/ things like that.

if you run the machine off the computer and use USB, is it scary to think about the computer catching a virus or worm and transferring it to the machine????

Vicki~ you can get the machines on eBay like mine. Their are tons of them on there. We decided to go with WM this time incase we had to return it or something. Most of the ones on eBay have the same warranty through Brother as any of them do. I got mine for Christmas, and I think it was easier on DH to get and hide it from WM than eBay. ;)

Ceanna, so this AutoPunch will let you embroidery any pictures you find? Tell me more about that. That sounds like what I want.

Autopunch is a program you can buy. Basicaly it auto digitizes your pic. It makes an embroidery design from clean artwork. You sould use images save in WMF, bmp or jpg. Pic should have a high resoulation. The program reduces the colors so it is able to stitch the art in embroidery. I have used it 2 times with good results. Kathy just got it for her machine too. So you might want to pm her to see how she likes its.

Hi, Vicky!

I would recommend a Brother or Babylock machine for embroidery. Either one has models very affordable for embroidery/sewing and quilting needs. I have a Babylock Ellegante that I love for embroidery. It is very easy to use. Babylock has an emb only machine that uses USB to transport designs for embroidery from computer, which is the way to go. I had an Esante that used cards, but it was a real headache to load those cards all the time to embroider designs. My machine uses USB flashdrives that makes the process so much easier to manage work with. I believe the Emb only machines run around 600 to 800 dollars. Brother loads alot of Disney stuff for embroidery yet it is just like Babylock. My 2 cents, for what it is worth. My thinking is these machines are easiest on the budget yet produce lovely work in embroidery, and sewing if you choose to get a combination embroidery/sewing machine.

looking good.......

I want one nowwwwww
i used to be a asket embroider. I had a TAJIMA 15 NEEDLE
professional machine. Boy, i miss that machine. My biggest hoop was28" x 36".
I could do hats and sneakers and anything in between i ould take a one design and enlarge it to fit my big frame
And no integrity would be lost. It also had 15 needles, so it held all those colors. I could set a design with up to 99 colors, but never did vo to luncb, come back and it was done. All threads were trimmed so nicely. Boy, i miss that machine.
have fun with ylurs.