My Viking/Husqvarna is at least 10 years old and doesn't accept embroidery software or any kind of disks, so I would need a new machine of some sort for embroidery.
I am aware that people did free-machine embroidery even with straight stitch machines, I just want to get fancier than that. Frankly, I want a new techno-toy. Fran Zuzana Kraemerova wrote: > You don't need a specific embroidery sewing machine to create a custom embroidery pattern. You just need to have the right software, which is usually quite expensive (but not so much compared to the embroidery machine itself) and it takes a LOT of time to make your desired pattern. There are some digitizing programs that somehow transfer a graphic to an embroidery file, but since I don't own it I don't really know how it works. You only have to know what file types your machine can read and save your graphic in that format. Be sure to check all this before purchasing the embroidery machine and software. > > Zuzana > > P.S.: I use Embird, it's affordable and does a good job, they also have some > digitizing studio plug-in, but I haven't used it. It might, however, happen > that this program will be too simple for you. > > > > I'm going to buy an embroidery machine, though, when we move to a bigger > house and have room for one. I want one that will do big motifs and > where I am not using canned patterns, but where I can create my own with > an embroidery graphics program, one that interfaces with my PC. I'd like > to scan in antique patterns from magazines and apply stitches to them > with a graphics program. I understand that the ordinary graphics > programs I use, which these days are mostly Corel PhotoPaint and Corel > Draw, don't apply stitches to embroidery patterns. Corel has a special > program for that which I have not really looked into, but I'm biased in > its favor anyway because it's Corel's. I have not looked into the > hardware all that much yet because buying a sewing or embroidery machine > these days is partly buying a computer; and with a computer both the > features and the prices change so rapidly, that it doesn't pay to > research too far in advance. I'm open to suggestions though. I could > either get an embroidery sewing machine--if it does big motifs and > allows me to create patterns--and sell my current Husqvarna, or get a > dedicated embroidery machine. > > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
