![]() ![]() ![]() You may find you're just as interested in digitizing for your quilting machine as you are for embroidery, if/when you computerize your machine. They are teaching hands-on classes at many of the big machine quilting shows this year. This software is designed by Loes and Theo van der Heiden who have contributed regularly on this forum. Upgrades are free, and we've had 2 since the software debuted a year ago. Just go to the website and watch the videos and you may get excited enough that you'll invest in it. But it would sure give you an idea of where you might like to go with digitizing. The only difference between the trial version and the licensed version is that you can't save your designs in the trial. There are lots of video tutorials and a very complete, with pictures, User Guide that you can print out. You can download the trial version from the website and play around with it. Keep us posted as to what direction you go with this.Īrt & Stitch may seem expensive, but you sure get a LOT for your money, and GREAT support & backup. I'm working on - Crazy quilt blocks right now. I do a lot of machine embroidery, labels, names on shirts, monogram towels and etc. Just some things I wanted to share with you, and for you to think about. The new Palette upgrade is over $500 and I don't need to have Palette, or digitize that bad. There is a Windows XP patch, but it takes too much time to toggle between my Designers Gallery software, and Palette. I have to use my husbands old computer with XP to use the program. Too costly-and it will not work on my Windows 7 equipped laptop. So, if you buy any programs, make sure they do. My suggestion is to be sure what direction you want to go-also, if you are running Windows 7, some digitizing programs don't "play well" with Windows 7. If you want an actual guild logo with fonts around it, and you want to design it-and you've never played around with digitizing, this could take some time to learn (and do). Or if it's just fonts you are wanting-there are literally thousands of embroidery design websites with "font" of all sizes for sale to download and use. Buy the finished digitized design from them, and transfer it to your machine to stitch out. You might be better off shopping for an online professional digitizer to do the design work for you. Compatibility of your Brother machine with the programs and hoops/stabilizers, and the end result all have to be considered. Tons of time learning the whole process and a lot of time sitting at the computer. ![]() It is a lot of drawing, importing, choosing stitches-test stitch outs. And while I have digitized a logo for our retreat denim shirts, and some redwork-I personally don't like digitizing per se. Are you wanting "fonts" for doing embroidery on the various products for your guild? or are you truly wanting to learn digitizing? for your guild logo projects, and for your own pleasure. ![]()
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