The Sewing Room (part 2)

essexgal

The old thread was getting rather cumbersome so we have been asked to start a new thread.

This thread continues on from the original thread here



essexgal

essexgal

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essexgal

rufusdog52

Thank you Essexgirl xx

Savvy_sewing

I wonder if anyone can help me, or direct me in the right direction.
I have purchased a second hand Embroidery Machine. A brother PE180D. It has a selection of built in Disney pictures and some other generic pictures.
It needs a memory card, to be able to add other patterns.
I have bought a PE scanner, which comes with a writable memory card. I have to drawer the designs, scan, and then convert etc. So something I want to investigate, but what I had really wanted was the ability to get the many downloadable PES files from the internet, onto a memory card.
But does anyone know of any equipment that would make that possible?
I am presuming I will need some sort of Flash drive or something, but haven't a clue where to start looking.
Thanks if anyone can help me.
Meanwhile I still have a lot of alterations to do, so I better do them before I play too much.
A couple of my bits are on my blog, from the designs that are there.
But not much yet. Other jobs are calling first. Alas.

juliep58

I am also looking for some advice. my local quilting shop has told me that a sizzix machine can cut fabric for applique. Is it as simple as using such a machine for cutting card i.e. a cuttlebug etc?

If it is easy to use is there any particular model which is worth a try and last of all could anyone point me in the direction of where I could get a sizzix at a good price? thanks in anticipation Julie

dizzy_lizzie

juliep58 wrote: »

I am also looking for some advice. my local quilting shop has told me that a sizzix machine can cut fabric for applique. Is it as simple as using such a machine for cutting card i.e. a cuttlebug etc?
If it is easy to use is there any particular model which is worth a try and last of all could anyone point me in the direction of where I could get a sizzix at a good price? thanks in anticipation Julie

Hi Julie. If you go on you tube and search for 'sizzix for cutting materials' there's a great demonstration on there. I must admit it looks so easy and cutting out squares for quilting with a rotary cutter does get me in a tizzy, to put it mildly!
Maybe search for 'cuttlebug for cutting materials' someone may have posted something about that too.
Can't really help re prices but I have seen them on amaz*n and *bay. There's also something called an Accuquilt which cuts material for sewing and quilting projects. Demonstrations on you tube
You must let us know if you end up getting one.

juliep58

never thought to look on you tube. I was going to pay the local quilting shop to cut me out a few baby ducks (as in bathtime ducks) and the owner made this suggestion so def going to get online.

Savvy_sewing

I bought some memory cards and a Card machine on eBay. Broke the bank doing it. But they didn't have all the discs for the software so feel rather conned! Can do some of what I wanted to do, but not all of it. Spent hours on the computer trying to work it all out.
I can't afford to buy yet another software package new or on EBay. So frustrated. So I have the PE design upgrade version 5. But without version Five it's useless!
Least the card reader works of sorts!
Now things need to be stepped up a bit as outgoings have exceeded income for quite a while now.
Although I did have a new customer yesterday. Word of mouth is a bit slower then I need.

Florenceem

Made an apron with stash fabric.

tattycath

Florenceem wrote: »

Made an apron with stash fabric.

Loving the apron Florenceem.

Florenceem

Finished a second apron.