Posted: 9/27/2014 10:41:44 AM EDT
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My wife is a Quilter and her work is top notch (she also teaches quilting) yesterday we had an
opportunity to get her a new sewing / embroidering machine (Husqvarna Viking) at a great price. I figure we have to have some here or their spouses who are into embroidering and quilting and can point me in the right direction on getting her come good software to design embroidering designs. The 6D Premier software looks good but is a bit on the high side but I'd rather get her something good and not mess around with something that I will just replace later. Any Suggestions. PS: No Pics she would beat me senseless |
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My wife is a Quilter and her work is top notch (she also teaches quilting) yesterday we had an opportunity to get her a new sewing / embroidering machine (Husqvarna Viking) at a great price. I figure we have to have some here or their spouses who are into embroidering and quilting and can point me in the right direction on getting her come good software to design embroidering designs. The 6D Premier software looks good but is a bit on the high side but I'd rather get her something good and not mess around with something that I will just replace later. Any Suggestions. PS: No Pics she would beat me senseless You should get a Stihl 
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Corel makes something just that. I've never used it, just seen it advertised. I think Corel's add on only shows what the embroidering will look like on screen/paper, not able to send the file to a machine. Tried to learn digitizing recently to save money on setups, holy shit it's complicated and all 500,764 proprietary programs i found suck ass. My embroiderer recommended embird but I never could import and convert my art files correctly. Looks like it would work if designed in the program but it seemed pretty limited. I gave up afted a couple weeks. |
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You will pay for the Husqvarna, but it works damn well. My mother has more money sunk into their systems than I care to fathom. With that system though, it's damn near set it and for get it. I take it half your house has been taken up with sewing/quilting supplies?
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You will pay for the Husqvarna, but it works damn well. My mother has more money sunk into their systems than I care to fathom. With that system though, it's damn near set it and for get it. I take it half your house has been taken up with sewing/quilting supplies?
Yes it is easy to sink a lot of money into the machines but it is pretty impressive what they can do But like anything you need the right tools to do the job right She does such high quality work that it only makes sense to give her the right tools |
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Wife says to look at Embird. She says it's only $200 or so. She has the older 3D, says it only lets you modify existing patterns. The benefit to buying the 6D would be you can get help from the dealership. I second Embird. I have a Husqvarna Viking Topaz 30 and use Embird. I got the Studio addition so I can do basic digitizing myself, as well as the font generator. Sfumato is crap, don't add that. With the extras I was about $350. |
| Also, tell her to look at sewingmachine.com for stabilizer. They sell it on rolls. And shopjoya.com has replacement embroidery feet for about half price. You will pop a needle through one at some point, have a spare. Mjsewingsupply.com has great pre-filled embroidery bobbins, water soluble topper, other stabilizers, and Organ needles, and if she sells anything, she should ask them about getting a micro-wholesale account for a huge discount. Vikings are amazing machines but are princesses about threads. Don't waste money on Coats and Clark, Metro, or anything generic. Mine likes Sulky and Guttermann but is ok with Robinson Anton on small spools, which you can get at MJ, have to hit Joann for the others. |
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Thank God that it is only sewing and quilting. On top of that my wife is also into spinning and weaving. Even firearms can't multiply as fast as weaving looms. She has a $8,000 Husqvarna Ruby Deluxe. She also got the $2,5000 software package for it. It's basically Photoshop for sewing. She does good work with it. Since she uses what she has, I don't really care. This weekend she gave a presentation at a coverlet conference in Bedford PA. She collected them once too.
I have to admit that the weaving looms she has purchased were a great investment. The model she new got for $270 in 1976 now lists for $1,950 now. She could easily get $1,200 for it. She also wrote and self published a book on tape loom weaving. Sold 1,200 copies of it and used the after tax profits to buy the embroidery sewing machine. Plus I know what heddles, treadles and even batten hand trees are. And then there is the "mother of all". |
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Wife says: Sew What Pro is a cheap and easy program that is super simple to figure out. There are a lot of people that start here before moving on to one of the bigger programs. And in fact, a lot of the ladies that sell on Etsy have been happy with SWP. Digitizing is tough work and will take quite a bit of practice. If she's wanting something more in depth that has more features, I've heard good things about Embird. One of my favorite digitizers, Hang to Dry, uses Embird for their designs. She also says my tag line is atrocious. |
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My wife is a Quilter and her work is top notch (she also teaches quilting) yesterday we had an opportunity to get her a new sewing / embroidering machine (Husqvarna Viking) at a great price. I figure we have to have some here or their spouses who are into embroidering and quilting and can point me in the right direction on getting her come good software to design embroidering designs. The 6D Premier software looks good but is a bit on the high side but I'd rather get her something good and not mess around with something that I will just replace later. Any Suggestions. PS: No Pics she would beat me senseless Check the various quilting classifieds... You can often find someone selling the previous version because they've upgraded for about 40% of the price (Thats how I bought my mother the embroidery software that normally runs $3k) |