Sewing Machine Has arrived

My friend was asking about embroidery machines and she is an artist so she will be thrilled to hear she can turn her paintings into patterns for one, what is the software called by the way?

Digitizing your own designs is very expensive and very confusing and also quite frustration. Since I have a Brother machine, I use their PE Design software. I was fortunate enough to secure a copy bundled with the machine I bought from a store that was going out of business. But then I had to buy a program called Pre-Design, too, in order to clean up the lines in my JPEG files before they go through PE Design. Now the biggest problem for me is that you cannot run the PE Design software without a thing they call a "dongle" and as I travel a lot, I'd have to carry the dongle around with me, which is ridiculous, or buy several which is absolutely cost-prohibitive. They do this on purpose. It is infuriating. There are other brands of digitizing software for home machine embroidery design, but the main thing is to be sure they are compatible with whatever machine is going to be used. Once all the pieces fit together and the learning curve is established, then you can get beautiful results, but making one's own images is not for the faint of heart. It takes a real commitment in time and money and what I call moral fortitude

I've got a software that can turn any image into a cross stitch pattern but when I tried to use it it printed the design out so large it went across about 12 pieces of paper. I couldn't work out how to scale down the design (even though the packaging showed a dainty little image on the front of a card) So I gave up, I understand your frustration.

Do you have the manual? there's normally instructions for how to thread the machine in there, though they don't always make a lot of sense sadly.

Yes there's a manual and no - makes no sense at all. English written by an Outer Mongolian who learned English in Russia, taught by a native Double Dutch speaker! LOL.

My Singer is an old one not quite antique yet, I got in from eBay too though so it's not a family heirloom sadly. Using sewing machines isn't hard once you've done a few things, I recommend starting with a hand operated one if you've never used one though as electric ones go fast.

I'd never heard of them as a sewing machine manufacturerer before, It seemed ok when I set it up and threaded it but I still need to try it out properly.

I would be interested in knowing how well it works, if you don't mind letting us know.

I did a short course recently as I'm interested in making costumes for children and events that require it. It's not a shard as you think once you know what you are doing.

I'd love to know how to make an outfit to measure, I've made one dress for myself from a pattern but that's it so far, until now I've only ever done things like quilts and repairing things.

I need some more cotton, luckily there is shop down the road that does a good deal on them.