Sewing & Embroidery

Informer asked: i just bought an embroidery machine and i have lots to learn. the company gave me some designs for free on my card. i know how to use them in the machine but i want to know how to save them to another source (i.e. my computer) so that i can load new [...]

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Liss asked: My friends and I are wanting to design some of our own clothes, but I don’t have a sewing machine, other than my grandma’s that I MIGHT be able to borrow, but it’s ancient, and the controls are SOO confusing. How much would a simple, yet good quality sewing machine be? And where [...]

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Darq asked: I am knitting a pair of fingerless gloves (http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTknucks.html) in black, and want to put a space invader design (http://www.hawk-huang.com/portfolio/SpaceInvader.jpg) on the backs. What is the best method to do this–duplicate stitches? embroidery? some form of fair isle? I don’t know how to do intarsia, so if this is the best method, where [...]

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expertvillage asked: How to use embroidery digitizing software to make digital embroidery machine designs in this free sewing video taught by an expert seamstress. Expert: Anne Beckett Contact: www.myspace.com/annesembroiderytx Bio: Anne Beckett is a professional embroiderer & seamstress. She has done work for such well-known directors as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater. Filmmaker: [...]

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azbikerider49 asked: Brother Sewing Machine #1 BTW This is up for sale. brother sewing machine

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elidet_reyes asked: My mom bought an embroidery machine and we are having trouble figuring out something. She has a Futura Singer Design software disk, but she thought she could make her own designs, and these are premanufactured designs. I tried and tried, and I have no idea how to import new ones, so if anyone [...]

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Jody T asked: i have brougt many designs from the internet and had no problems with them. getting them saved and to my smart box and to the embroidery machine and have beautiful things from them. when i try to get them to my smart box it says. paint can’t read this file, and this [...]

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humblestumble asked: I’m starting a series on sewing on youtube just for fun and hopefully to help teach someone who can’t afford to learn otherwise, or are just stuck. I’ll be updating this video tonight with a much better quality and better information. Please come join us at diysewright.forumup.com , and you can catch me [...]

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just me! asked: Every time I try to sew something My sewing machine just balls up all of the thread on the backside of the material. What could this be caused from? Sewing Machines

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jazzzjew asked: I am lookin for a decent, and note too expensive sewing machine for myself. The first project I want to undertake is making curtains for my apartment. odd sized windows have made for a big headache in looing to buy them. I also think i might want to fiddle in making clothing for [...]

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