My husband bought me an embroidery machine last year and I love it. It is a Janome E350 and is very user friendly. It uses their cards but also uses a computer jump drive. Designs can be downloaded from your computer to the drive and plugged directly into the machine. The other thing that I like about it is that it is a stand alone embroidery machine and as I have several sewing machines (Pfaff Creative 1473 which is over 20 years old, a 15 year old Necchi, several simplicity and singer machines, a serger and a singer industrial machine) I did not another sewing machine.
Shop around before you invest that kind of money. I found that a number of sewing centers will let you try their machines in their store and then there are the "large" manufacturers that will demonstrate but not let you touch. Anyway, good hunting. Kenet --- Lavolta Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
