When to Choose Embroidery

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Successful digitizing and embroidery

WHEN TO CHOOSE EMBROIDERY

When considering the best method for creating a logo or design on a garment or non-apparel item, keep in mind that embroidery offers a rich, textured appearance that will last for years.

LOCATION

Left and Right Chest - The industry standard for design elements is to have the logo on the left chest and any personalization, such as an employee?s name, on the right chest. Sleeve - You might want to consider adding a logo, design or slogan to the left sleeve to add variety. This would create more visibility for businesses who have a message to display. Back ? below collar (yoke area) is also an area that can add some variety to design placement. One consideration for this area is to avoid designs that could be irritating for the wearer due to backing. Certain designs that require backing may not be advisable. Sometimes, thickness of thread coming through backing can create a great deal of irritation. Left Chest and Hat - If logo is to be placed on left chest or sleeve and a hat, make sure you have separate tapes digitized for each placement. A digitized tape for hats, for example, is engineered differently than for a left chest or sleeve placement, generally being sewn from the middle of the design out.

FABRIC

Typical fabrics for uniforms that would most often contain an embroidered element include cotton twill, pique, denim, cotton/polyester blend and fleece (for jackets).

THREAD

If a garment produced with embroidery is going to be washed in high temperatures and heavy bleach or will have rough use, thread selection is of particular concern. Polyester thread is the best choice in such a situation to avoid fading and bleeding of thread color into the garment.

If the vibrancy of color is important, then rayon is the best choice. Rayon is the traditional choice when a higher degree of luster and shine are wanted. You may have to direct your embroiderer to use rayon as they may have polyester as their standard due to its strength and ability to withstand the sewout process with less breakage than is potential with rayon. Don?t sacrifice the quality and appearance of your design to make it easier to sew out.

DESIGN ELEMENTS

Letter size is an important consideration when creating a digitized design for the embroidery process.

Minimum Letter Height by Fabric:

Pique, Terry cloth, Fleece .?. 1/ 4?

Twill, Most other fabrics ?? 3/16?

MARKETING IDEAS

If you customer has vendors, you might suggest to your customer that their vendor may want to participate in getting shirts produced by having their name embroidered on the shirt (EG: on the sleeve). They may have coop dollars available to subsidize a portion of the cost of the shirt and create a better sales opportunity for you. Home Depot, for example, may choose to have Black & Decker or Porter Paints displayed on their employees shirt sleeves.

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Finding Help From Embroidery Digitizing Forums

You were looking for a hobby. You knew that crocheting or knitting weren't for you because it took too long to complete a project. So you started looking at other hobbies. Scrapbooking was great -- until you ran out of pictures. You decide to look online for a hobby when you see an ad for embroidery machines. You felt that actually sounded like fun.

Not wanting to make your decisions on impulse, you do your research online on which machine to buy. You compare price and features, and still have trouble deciding. Looking for product reviews, you happen on a machine embroidery forum. You spend hours looking at the forum, reading product reviews for each machine that you had considered, and finally you decide on an embroidery machine.

That's great, but what next?

With a sense of excitement, you read other areas of the forum and you find out about embroidery digitizing programs. Knowing that once you purchase a program, you cannot return it, you read more product reviews about each program. You compare the different programs, and decide to take the leap and buy your own embroidery digitizing program.

With all your research and reading, you knew there was going to be a learning curve when you bought your embroidery digitizing program. After all, you did your research before you bought the program. You even asked for advice on the embroidery digitizing forums where you did most of your research.

After all of your time on the forums, you've made friends there. These friends can help you learn to digitize embroidery patterns. Now, keep in mind that the people you meet on embroidery digitizing forums are also in the middle of the learning process; however most of them will be more than happy to give you suggestions on how to learn to digitize embroidery patterns.

Embroidery digitizing forums are a great way to meet people who have similar interests to you. A good forum I found was www.digitizingtalk.com. You can get to know people who are doing the same hobby, and you can eventually help others that are just starting out in the embroidery digitizing world.

With all of the expert help in digitizing embroidery forums, you would think that their advice would help with the learning curve for embroidery digitizing. The people who are giving their advice have gone through the learning process and have their own tips and tricks that they're able to tell you about. However, a lot of the learning process is trial and error. So even though you can get some great advice and meet some friends with similar interests through embroidery digitizing forums, you will still have to deal with the learning curve in learning to digitize an embroidery pattern. Just relax and take your time. Don't pressure yourself to learn embroidery digitizing quickly, and enjoy your new friends.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information or ask questions about Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com

Machine Embroidery Designs

General information

Machine embroidery is a special type of embroidery, performed by special automatic machines, functioning according to the man's adjusted program.

This man is designer, constructor. He creates the embroidery program (design) - the machine operation algorithm, which can be in consequence repeated unlimited number of times. The machine following the given program, automatically executes the embroidery on material. In this way, the main features of machine embroidery are the absence of manual labor at the stage of outright embroidery, and the possibility of embroidery samples duplication.

The machine embroidery is a recent kind of activity, in contrast to manual embroidery, existing for thousands of years. The machine embroidery began its existence nearly 50 years ago and in 1980-ies the demand of the profession of machine embroidery designer began to grow. Nowadays the demand is actually as well. During the period of machine embroidery existence, its creation technology has changed beyond recognition.

The machines that once used as source of information the punched card, limited in speed and quality of embroidery, were replaced by microprocessor-based, highly productive, multihead machines with advanced technology equipment, optimizing the embroidery process.

The process of machine embroidery technologically consists of two closely associated stages:

The embroidery designing stage, or the construction stage of machine embroidery-represents the process of creation of embroidery machine program. At this stage are developed the construction components of machine embroidery.
The technical stage represents the direct embroidery manufacture by means of machine. At this stage are developed the technical components of machine embroidery.

Both this stages are at the same time quite independent from the point of view of manufacture, which helps to differentiate them and to mark out two different basic types of industrial activity accordingly. It is a question of enterprises that are specialized directly in program creation, or in materially embroidery creation. Each of these manufacture branches develops round itself a branching infrastructure system.

For example, nowadays there are a great number of producers of special program maintenance for machine embroidery, of embroidery machines and special concomitant equipment producers, of outlay materials producers, used for embroidery manufacture. Many companies, in accordance with machine embroidery branch needs are adjusting the directions of its activity. For example, the producers of textile dye stuff make special adjustments of qualities and spectrum, the clothing producers change the construction, adjusting it to the technology of machine embroidery manufacture.

Field of machine embroidery use

Historically the embroidery had, first of all, a decorative character. Nowadays this essential property favorable affected its use in advertising branch. We frequently see the embroidery bearing advertising-informational character, on clothing objects and other ready-made garments.

Machine embroidery as advertising; informational bearer

Embroidery can be an effective advertising-informational means, at the same time without loosing its artistic expressiveness. It is frequently used at trade marks plotting on the cloth, leather, felt, as well as on complete products, clothes etc. At embroidery it is possible the reproduction of trade mark of all color combination. The trade mark, plotted on by this method, frequently turns into fashionable attribute of article and becomes an organic element of its composition. It is possible to embroider on different types of clothes, including uniform, working clothes. The embroidery as characteristic index to any current of activity is widely used in many countries. Very often the firm workers bear the differential sign of their company. It can be a logotype on the head gear, on the front side of the sweater or on the back side of the jacket.

The cloth embroidery, on many indexes passes ahead of its ?rivals?, like serigraphy or decal decoration (transfer seal). The embroidery is more lasting, the steadiness of threads color is higher, the volumetric texture of embroidery confers more expensive and spectacular shape to the logotype. That is why most of the firms, dealing with advertising campaigns development, recommend to their clients the very embroidery. The embroidery can be performed on different parts of clothes and on different articles. On head gears (caps, knitted caps), sport shirts, shirts, tolstovkas, even on footwear.

Technical constituent of machine embroidery

During the cycle of machine embroidery manufacturing is applied different means and tools. However, starting from the availability of two basic stages of manufacture, it can be market two fundamental corresponding tools of machine embroidery.

They are:

The computer with appropriate program maintenance and peripherals on the construction stage of manufacture. Automatic embroidery machine with concomitant supplementary equipment on the technological stage of manufacture.

Let us list the fundamental information of industrial automatic embroidery machines and some supplementary special concomitant equipment. Industrial automatic embroidery machines according to fulfilled activity and principle of operation can be divided in two groups:

Universal automatic embroidery machines.
Special automatic embroidery machines.

To special automatic embroidery machines can be attributed the machines using not quite standard embroidery methods, machines that are able to perform embroidery on out-of-the-way places of complete products and on materials that are difficult for embroidery. To one of the most commonly used type of special automatic embroidery machines can be attributed the so called Schiffli, machines that allow making embroidery with the utilization of decorative cord, to cut through material and at the same time to process the cut by embroidery. These machines are mostly used for finishing of light and thin, translucent, fashioned and other smart cloth and articles made out of it. For instance, Schiffli machines are often used at wedding dresses decoration.

Quite recently it appeared a new interesting kind of automatic special embroidery-the so called no-thread-embroidery and automatic no-thread embroidery machines. The principle of operation of such machines has a remote conformity with principle of producing of needle-punched fabrics. It consists in the fact that the machine with a set of needles (24 needles) runs through the structure of the main (working) material the locks of fibers of special auxiliary material. The auxiliary material is laid under the main material. After the auxiliary material removing on the main material remains an effective, specific pattern (picture).

Nowadays the leader in production of no-thread embroidery machines is the Japan Company Tanaka. In 2001 fashion show in Berlin and Paris were presented impressive collections made with the help of no-thread embroidery on "Vari-O-Matic" machine of this company. To universal automatic embroidery machines are related the machines of lock-stitch with coordinate displaced frame holder which is meant for manufacture of embroidery with threads on classical and most widespread materials and articles. The use of such machines supposes some limitations in properties of used materials and constructions of complete products.

But these limitations are constantly growing narrower due to constant modernization and improvement of universal automatic embroidery machines and due to use of manifold auxiliary facilities and special devices. All known universal automatic embroidery machines are of lock-stitch type of machines and the structure of many parts of the mechanism has many similarities with lock-stitch embroidery machines.

The main parts of single-head universal automatic embroidery machine are column, case, frame holder and head. The case is fixed on column and consists of pole and cantilevered arm. Inside the upper part of column is installed the stitch mechanism. Inside the case is installed the main shaft mechanism. On the head is disposed a set of needle mechanisms with thread takeup and thread guide mechanisms. The head is able to shift from case in the horizontal position, engaging with the main shaft stirring up the needed needle mechanism.

This enables the machine to make the shift of the thread color at one embroidery run. The frame holder mechanism is able to shift the frame holder in a horizontal level in four directions from the active needle. The shift is made in step-type on coordinate according to given embroidery program. In this way the machine can make loch-stitches on material of different length and in any given order and direction, executing if needed the shift of working needle with the thread of the definite color. The industrial automatic embroidery machines can be both single-headed and with few heads and with corresponding number of necessary working mechanisms. The last are called many headed or multihead automatic embroidery machines.

Under normal conditions of embroidery all the heads and frame holders mechanisms works synchronously.

The basic indexes of industrial embroidery machines

Speed of embroidery.

It is expressed through quantity of stitches per minute. The embroidery speed can be adjusted both manually and automatically while embroidering. The optimal embroidery speed of modern machines oscillates between 700-900 stitches per minute. Maximum speed reaches 1200-1400 stitches per minute.

Number of working heads.

In modern multihead machines the head numbers come to 2-4 heads.

The size of working area or the maximum size of used frame.

This index is concerned with possible size of performed embroidery. It is expressed through correlation of length and width of the working area in millimeters and is regulated for flat and cylindrical frame (used for caps, sleeves, etc). There are spread the correlations 800x600, 500x400 and other-for flat frame; 360x75, 400x350 and other for cylindrical frame.

Needle quantity.

It is equal to the number of needles on one head. It is defined by maximal possible number of thread colors used at one run of embroidery. The possible needle number in modern machines is from 1 to 12. The most spread are the machines with 9 needles. Other important indexes are the noise and vibration level, the compatibility of machine with different standard embroidery programs, the presence of accessories, error of linear measurements of embroidery elements.

The accessories can be presented through different additional hinged device for automatic let-off of decorative cord or ribbon, broadened control terminal, systems of laser and video navigation of working area, additional laser trimers (device for thread cutting) and other.

The concomitant equipment can be presented through devices of embroidery evaporation, various press equipment for adhesive chevron and braid production, special cloth-cutting machine in the form of laser cutter-machines, that can automatically cut of or drift on markings on cloth, which is widely used at combined with embroidery applique?works production.

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Finding Your Niche With An Embroidery Digitizing Business

You have everything in place to start an embroidery digitizing business. You've done all your research. You have a business plan in place and have contracted out for your own website.
With all of the competition out there, how do you make yourself stand out from the crowd?

When you are first starting out, you may decide that you want to focus on a certain type of image to digitize into an embroidery pattern. You may choose dragons, flowers or frogs. If you focus on similar pictures at first, you will get faster at doing these type of images. Not only will you get faster at digitizing these pictures into embroidery patterns, but you will get better at it.

If this is how you decide to start out with digitizing embroidery patterns, you will want to choose a niche that you are interested in. When you are digitizing a new design, you will need to embroider it to make sure that it turns out okay. If you don't like dragons or faeries, and that is the type of image you are digitizing into embroidery patterns, not only will you have samples around that you aren't interested in, but you won't feel the urge to get the images as close to perfect as you would if you love flowers and you are digitizing flower images into embroidery patterns.

If you are going to offer to digitize images that people send you into embroidery patterns, you will eventually want experience at digitizing a variety of images, not just the type of images in your niche. When you work by request, you will be working with a wide variety of images to digitize into embroidery patterns, not simply one specific type.

Something that really needs to be mentioned any time that you talk about doing specialized work for customers. With people sending images to you to digitize into embroidery patterns, you may face another issue that you haven't seen mentioned before. When you buy a digitized embroidery pattern file at the store, the company who digitized these patterns will have paid to use any trademarked images.

That's is something very important that you will want to keep in mind. The NFL, collegiate teams or large corporations such as Disney will sue anyone using their trademarked images without permission. You will get a letter before they take you to court, but don't count on being able to just slide by. The big companies have lawyers and are always looking for people who are breaking copyright laws.

There are plenty of legal ways to get around the copyright laws, however if you have any doubts about whether you are violating these laws, your best bet is to play it safe.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information or ask him questions about Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com

Earning A Living With Embroidery Digitizing

You originally bought an embroidery machine to embroider your own items and to make gifts. Then you buy an embroidery digitizing program as you couldn't find your patterns already digitized. With the cost of the program, the only way you could justify the purchase is to start an embroidery digitizing business.

You make sure you get plenty of practice. Not wanting to leave anything to chance, you learn to hand punch your own design so you can make sure the program is doing the embroidery digitizing the best way possible. After you are sure you know the embroidery digitizing program inside and out, you start embroidering the digitized patterns. You want to have plenty of samples to prove you know how to digitize embroidery patterns.

Once you are satisfied with your digitizing skills and once you feel you have plenty of samples to show, you start thinking about beginning your business.

However there is more to consider. To start a crafting business, you need the same information you need for any other business. You need to write a business plan. That's where you sort out what your plans are for the business. You need to consider advertising, you need to consider what you are going to charge, and you need to have a plan in place for bookkeeping. Like any small business, you need to look at how much competition you will have.

When you consider advertising, you may come up with many ideas. You can find a web designer with skills at search engine optimization. As your embroidery digitizing business is driven by digital files, it will not matter if your customer is not local to you. You can put a business card up at a local coffee shop or other local gathering place. You might decide you want to embroider some items and get a booth at a craft fair. Not only will you be able to sell your embroidered items, you can put out your business card for your embroidery digitizing business. You may decide to start small. You can join an embroidery forum and post there, offering embroidery digitizing services in your signature line with each post.

There are any numbers of other advertising ideas you may decide to follow. Once you have the business plan and advertising ideas in place, you may be surprised to find that your business can grow by leaps and bounds. There are many people out there who do digital embroidery. A good portion of these people are not going to want to learn to digitize their own embroidery patterns. That's where your business comes in.

One final thought, statistics show that when starting a business, the first five years are the toughest to get through financially. Some days it may seem too difficult to stick with it, but if you do, your business will be a money maker.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information or ask him questions about Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com

Whats Easier? Manual Or Computerized Embroidery Digitizing

Embroidery patterns used to be set up manually. You would draw the picture you wanted to embroider, poke little holes in the paper with a pin, and then you would use charcoal or chalk to mark the fabric through those little holes. This process was very time consuming and the result was never so perfect.

With the advent of computerized embroidery machines, a whole new world of digitized embroidery patterns has opened up. If your pattern isn't already digitized, you have several choices. You can send it to any of a number of companies that specialize in digitizing embroidery, or you can digitize your own pattern.

Sending your artwork to a company that specializes in digitizing embroidery is the easiest way to go. However, you may decide that you want to learn to digitize your own embroidery patterns.

To digitize a pattern, you need your own artwork in either a vector based format or a bitmap, such as you would get with CorelDraw or Adobe Photoshop. For your first design, your best bet is to start with something simple. A good choice would be a monogram, or a two color design such as a football or baseball.

Once you have chosen what you want to digitize, the next challenge is to create a map with a starting point, ending point and the paths the stitches will take along the way. This part can be a little more complicated and is by far the most challenging part of the embroidery digitizing process. You need to decide which stitch types, stitch directions, and densities go in each area of your design. If you leave spaces for jump stitches and the need to reposition the needle, you may end up with broken thread.

Next you will actually digitize the pattern. Whether you are using a digitizing tablet with a puck, or a computer and mouse, you would enter the coordinates for each stitch change.

Just when it seems like you're actually finished with the work, you need to verify that the embroidery pattern that you just digitized is going to work the way you had planned. Test the pattern on a piece of fabric similar to what you will be embroidering the final design on. With the test, you will be able to see whether the stitches are positioned the way you want them. Plus, you will be able to tell whether the pattern works the way you expected it to.

If you need to make adjustments, now is the time. Go in and make changes with the digitizing tablet or computer. Save the adjustments and stitch another test run. This is the time to make all those adjustments that need to be made.

Don't be disappointed if the pattern doesn't turn out the way you want it the first time. Just keep adjusting it until it matches what you want. Digitizing embroidery is an art form. Just as you wouldn't expect to be able to paint a masterpiece or play a Beethoven Concerto the first time you tried, you need to expect to have to practice the digitizing too.

Although after reading this article you might feel that computerized embroidery digitizing is more hard, but it is really less time consuming and give you outstanding results.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information or ask him questions about Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com

Embroidery Digitizing Forums Are Of Great Help

So you've put a lot of work into getting ready to embroider your own items. You've done your research. You choose your pattern carefully, possibly digitizing your own or having someone else do it for you. You choose what you want to have your pattern embroidered on, whether it be a bag, a shirt or something else entirely. You try to start with your embroidering, and you get stuck. You're not entirely sure where to start embroidering your pattern.

What do you do?

If the user manual for your machine doesn't cover this, you can always guess. Making mistakes isn't a big deal. It may be tedious but you can pick the thread out so you can start over with embroidering the pattern on your item. It's time consuming, but it's one way to learn what you need to know.

On the other hand, you can go online to an embroidery forum. Pull up a search engine and type in 'embroidery forum.' You can go to one of these bulletin board type websites to ask the questions that come up in your projects.

On an embroidery forum, you can get a lot of information and help for your embroidery projects. There will be information on what program to use if you decide to digitize your own embroidery pattern. There might even be information on companies to digitize your pattern for you.

Getting information from an embroidery forum may take awhile. The information is organized, but it's not going to have a table of contents. You can spend hours or even days getting to know your topic. You can even use the forums to make friends who have the same interests as you do. All that's required is regular posting to the forum itself.

If after reading, you still can't find the answer to your question, create an account and ask the question on the forum. As a general rule you want to make sure you are polite and ask your question nicely. If someone has experience with what you are asking, they will answer you.

As a general rule, an embroidery forum is one of the best places to get information on digital embroidery and embroidery machines. There is information on all the different type of embroidery machines, and information on different types of digitizing software.

You may even decide you want to look over the forums before you even buy your embroidery machine. Doing that, you can get information on the best machine to buy. Before you buy digitizing software, you will definitely want to look at the forums. In doing so, you may decide that digitizing your own pattern is not for you.

Embroidery forums are definitely one of the best ways for you to get to know your new hobby or business. I personally recomend www.digitizingtalk.com

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information or ask him questions about Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com

A Stitch In Time - Confessions Of An Embroidery Newbie

Dreamer

Lots of little stitches creating patterns and eventually turning into pictures and designs. Stitching designs on clothing, linens, towels, and giving away my fabulous creations at every holiday.

My friends and family oohing and ahhing and wondering at which boutique I purchased the items filled my daydreams.

Having a hobby for which I could sell products and use the profits to purchase more designs or have pocket money.

Different goals, but the object of my desire was one and the same? I wanted a home embroidery machine!

Dreaming about owning an embroidery machine was one thing. Actually purchasing the embroidery machine became a trek and project unto itself. I saw a Singer embroidery machine demonstration one day in a local fabric store, and was mesmerized by what it could do!

I could not imagine owning something that could produce such results, and figured that it must be outrageously expensive and difficult to run. I had mainly done ?crafts? and home d?cor sewing, but I have two toddlers, and was really interested in embellishing store bought clothing to make it seem more like boutique style clothing (for a lot less!)

Being the person that I am, I delved into research on the subject of home embroidery machines ? size, price range, features, quality, hoop size, etc. I talked to many people who owned them, and got their opinions on what was important, and what was just ?bonus? (and usually unused by most novices and home embroiderers.)

Finally deciding on my current machine took a lot less time than convincing my husband that it was ?necessary!? He accompanied me to the local dealer on a number of occasions, watched them stitch out designs, grilled them about the features and costs associated with the machine, and even tried to bargain with them! I think they were very relieved when my kids distracted him by shouting about how the machine was ?painting? a picture on the fabric!

Shortly after Valentines Day of 2006, he purchased the machine for me (a previously owned model) and I brought it home! It was almost as exciting as bringing home either of my kids, especially because this ?baby? had an instruction manual!

Embroidery Crazy

The machine already had a few designs preloaded into it, so I immediately began to stitch on anything I could get my hands on ? towels, fleece baby blankets, scraps of fabric, even a pair of my husband?s underwear! (boy, was he surprised the next day when he opened the dresser drawer!)

My ambition to embroider was unmatched, but what I was really lacking in was the experience and knowledge of the basics ? stabilizers, thread type, needle types, and design density for various weight of fabrics. Most of my early projects look novice and ?homemade?, the backs have thread nests, there are puckers on most of them, and I had to throw away about a third of the first few attempts.

The store I purchased my machine offered intro classes as part of the package, but I was limited in my ?free time? to take the classes, and so I thought it would be a months before I was going to ?get it right!? I called the local stores and got some advice, but mostly they wanted to recommend products in their store. So, I took to the internet and researched my options online.

I cannot recall exactly what I initially entered in the search engine, but somehow I stumbled across the Designs by Sick website. I was impressed by all the cute designs, and joined the forum right away.

I lurked, mostly, but I did learn from reading past posts from others. What impressed me the most, though, was that they gave away FREE designs every day, and an entire font, and there were even more in the yahoo group?s file folders!

I also began to read more postings on the yahoo group, and in time, was confident enough to post messages myself. Mostly, I would stick to ISO (in search of) for various designs I wanted or needed, and sure enough, someone would answer me!

The friendliness and willingness of most group members to help someone they will probably never meet is a real draw to join a good group and become an active member. Since postings can be read and answered at your leisure, it makes for something to do at any hour if you need help or just want to vent that your machine has a mind of its own!

Design Overload

Like most newbies, I think I suffered from the disillusion that if I didn?t download EVERY free design immediately than I would never again have the opportunity to do so. Thus began my freebie downloading binge.

I would log onto the computer early in the morning, searching out free sites, joining yahoo groups and panicking that I would have to await approval. Never since college application days did I worry so much about getting accepted! I HAD TO HAVE THOSE DESIGNS!!!!

Hours upon hours of downloading, searching, and hundreds of designs later, and I still hadn?t really stitched out anything worthwhile ? but I had those free designs! It took me a long time (and I still will occasionally slip) to come up with some guidelines about downloading what is right for me.

I have two young children, Nathaniel (age 3) and Theresa (age 2), and I used to be a math teacher ? so the designs that most appeal to me are designs for children, teachers, and really cute holiday designs.

Each person has to decide what designs are right for them, but the rule of thumb I have developed is, ?If your immediate reaction to the design is ?Ugh!? then DON?T DOWNLOAD it!? You are only wasting your time, and computer space, as well as the time you will take to file it. I have several designs that are ugly to me, and while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, if I don?t get happy looking at the designs, and can never imagine stitching them out, I don?t download those types of designs anymore.

I have also begun to realize the benefit of downloading and test stitching ?sample? designs. You may see several of the same design (from shared clipart) among many designers on the web. Though the clipart may be similar, the actual quality of the design can only be determined by test stitching.

Density, jump stitches, decorative fills, tension of the design all affect how it will stitch out on your machine. What looks good as an image on your 2D monitor, may not actually resemble the 3D finished product. So, test, test, test!!! If you feel like you are ?wasting? the thread and stabilizer, then use a square of similar fabric to your final product to do it on. Always use the same sized square (I use 9? squares so I can test stitch up to a 5x7 design on them.) Then when you have 20 or more, stitch them together to form a ?raggy? quilt or actually sash them to form a traditional quilt and gift it to someone - or even better, donate it to your local Linus Project or other charity!)

Education is the Key

The time to take the classes at the local embroidery dealer was finally going to fit my schedule, and I had learned some things from the internet, so off I went, machine in tow to sit for hours and learn the basics of the machine (from turning it on to utilizing the most popular of its features.)

I had already read the manual (a recommendation of mine to anyone who owns a machine, and don?t be intimidated by the size of it, it makes for interesting reading and got me really excited about using the machine, Just draw a warm bubble bath, and start reading!) so I knew a lot of the first class? instruction.

You may think then that it was a waste of my time to take it, but not so. I was able to use my time to ask more in-depth questions and expand on my knowledge while others were learning how to thread the needle. (However, if you are one of the ones that needs to learn the most basic ?basics? then you may want to inquire about taking the classes for a second, or third time, to help you out with expanding your knowledge once you do know how to operate the machine. Some dealers will even offer one on one ?tutoring? before the classes start to help out novices)

If you are not lucky enough to live close to a dealer, or you purchased your machine directly from someone else, on the internet, etc so that classes are not included, then don?t despair! You may be able to take internet classes from on-line dealers, pay for classes from a different machine?s dealer, or ask around on web groups to find a ?friend? who lives nearby with experience to help you one-on-one (or even via email or phone if they don?t live so close.)

NEVER think that a question is dumb or has been asked ad nauseum and no one wants to hear you ask it. The chances are, if you are wondering, then at least one other person is, too, and will benefit from your asking.

Advice: Stabilization is the Foundation

The teacher had a basic lesson on stabilizers as well, and I purchased a sampling of several that they offered at the store (for a small fortune!) I made a ?stabilizer? booklet and cut a swatch of each one, and listed the name brand, type and what it could be used for.

This is really helpful as you learn more and more about them, and can add to your booklet and lists, plus when I put away the pieces of stabilizer and was trying to figure out (by feel) which ones they were, I could refer back to the booklet for help.

I come by being cheap honestly, and so I have tried many tricks to saving money by scrimping and saving and reusing everything!

You can save your thread snips to create ?fabric? out of it, I have used empty thread cones to dry 3D free standing lace ornaments on, and most of all I save stabilizer pieces.

If I can ?piece? a sheet of stabilizer for some projects I will! Sometimes this works, and other times it will fail on you everytime. The trick is knowing why you are using the stabilizer. The actual purpose of the stabilizer in each project is the key to knowing how much or how little you can actually get away with!

For example, if you are doing a design on a t-shirt, then you would need an intact piece of soft cut-away stabilizer to actually be the strong, unmoving foundation for the stretchy knit fabric. However, if you are embroidery a name on a ribbon, or are embroidering on top of dense or fuzzy fabric, then smaller piece of water-soluble stabilizer (floated on top) will keep the stitches from sinking into the project .

You can also ?stitch? wss (water soluble stabilizer) together with water soluble thead in top and in the bobbin to create a larger piece you can reuse for smaller fsl (free standing lace) or other in the hoop projects which call for wss.

Michelle Brown is a writer about embroidery designs sharing her experiences and advice for machine embroidery designs.

The Best Place To Find Good Embroidery Digitizing Companies

You have a particular pattern in mind to embroider with your embroidery machine. You search the stores for this pattern, but you can't find it anywhere. Frustrated, you look online for the pattern and still nothing. What options do you have?

If you are able to get a picture of what you want or even draw one, you can send it to a company that will digitize your pattern for your use.

But where do you find the company?

If you do an online search for 'digitizing embroidery' many companies will come up. With the large number of websites to look at, you may find it confusing or even overwhelming to choose a company to digitize your pattern for you.

The easiest way to choose a digitizing company is to make a list of what you are looking for. Look at each company's website to see how much experience they have. Check to see if they have pictures of their work on the site. That way you can see how well they digitize and embroider images. Look to see if there are any customer comments on the website.

Most of the companies that digitize embroidery patterns will also offer embroidered items on their websites. Looking at the pictures they display may give you a clue how well they digitize patterns.

If you are still unsure where to turn for digitizing a pattern, check out the online message boards. Do a search for 'embroidery message board' The results will give you a place to start. If you are trying to compare several companies, ask if anyone on one of these forums has heard of any of the companies. They may be able to give you feedback on where to go for someone to digitize your image into an embroidery pattern.

That said, you most likely won't get one straight answer for the feedback. Everyone is going to have a favorite company or two to work with.

Once you choose a company to digitize your pattern for you, you will be asked to submit the file as a .jpg or jpeg format. They will use your .jpg in a program that digitizes patterns to create the file for your embroidery machine.

Depending on the company, the price for this file will vary according to how big you want the finished design to be. Something that takes up the back of a jacket is going to be more stitches and consequently cost more than a logo on a baseball cap. You can generally send in a copy of the image you want digitized to get an exact quote on their charges.

No matter the price, once your chosen company has finished digitizing your embroidery pattern for you, you can embroider it on to as many items as you wish.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information or ask him questions about Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com

How To Look For Embroidery Digitizers

You are looking for embroidery digitizers online and have a dilemma. If you are going to spend the money to get your embroidery pattern digitized, you want only the best there is to do the work for you.

How do you figure out who that is?

Your best bet is to go by how long and how much experience the company has with embroidery digitizing. If you are choosing the company by their website, look at the page that tells about the company. If it doesn't tell you about how long they've been in business, email them and ask. Once you get your answer, look at their site and find examples of their work. If there isn't anything on the website, you can email them and ask for images of samples sent back to you.

There are many factors you can use to choose an embroidery digitizer. You may find that the embroidery digitizers with the most experience operate in a different country. If you truly want the best, you will have to do your research.

Like anything else with choosing a company to digitize your embroidery pattern, this is going to be a mostly subjective search. You may find that the company you choose has more experience with the type of embroidery pattern you are wanting digitized.

Some companies are going to be better at small patterns. Others will have experience with larger ones. Looking at the websites, you can find out what they have experience with.

Instead of searching for 'embroidery digitizing' you can also search for 'embroidered items.' Now, not every company that comes up under that search will offer to digitize your embroidery pattern for you. However, chances are, these companies won't come up under the search for embroidery digitizing, but they will offer to digitize an embroidery pattern for you. Look for a link that says "if you don't see what you want, let us know." With this, they are offering to get an embroidery pattern digitized for you. Email them to see if they will just digitize the embroidery pattern for you or if you have to buy an embroidered item from them together with the digitizing.

Emailing a company about their embroidery digitizing services is a good way to find out about their customer service. If they take awhile to answer, if they are not clear with their answers, it's possible that their customer service is not as good as it could be or they could just be busy. Ask them what their turnaround is to see how busy they are.

If you are torn between several embroidery digitizers, find an embroidery forum and see if you can get opinions on who the best embroidery digitizing company is. You can specify that cost isn't an issue if you are worried that they will just give you the "best for the lowest price" type answer.

Once you decide on an embroidery digitizer for your pattern you can relax and enjoy being able to embroider the pattern that you wanted.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information or ask him questions about Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com

Expensive? How Much Should Embroidery Digitizing Really Cost?

It has happened with many people who bought embroidery machines and thought of learning embroidery digitizing. Let's say you too just bought an embroidery machine, but don?t want to fall for buying an expensive piece of embroidery digitizing software. You don?t even have time or energy to put in to learning how to digitize your own patterns. Especially after all that you've read on how hard it is to learn embroidery digitizing. Rewarding or not, it's not for you. That said, how much should it cost for you to get your own pattern digitized?

The answer isn't in quite crystal clear. It's going to depend on where you go. As a general rule the cost of digitizing a pattern will vary according to how complicated the pattern is. The more stitches, the more you'll pay.

You may feel like the companies who digitize patterns are asking for a lot of money for such a little file. After all, the file only takes a few minutes to stitch, why should they charge as much as they do.

Think of it this way. You send your clipart or picture off to a company that offers to digitize it for you. You may have found them on the web or in the yellow pages. Not only do they have to buy the program they use to digitize the file, but they need to pay their employees to learn to use embroidery digitizing software. They have to pay for the time it takes their employee to digitize the design. That's just the start. They have their own bills to pay, plus advertising costs. Without advertising, how would you have found them? The only way it is profitable for them to offer their services is for them to pass the cost on to you.

What you are charged will change according to how many stitches wind up in the pattern. Generally the charge difference goes in blocks, 0 to 1,000 stitches will be one price, then they go up for each 1,000 stitches. This only makes sense. The more stitches are in the pattern, the longer it is going to take for them to digitize it and the longer it'll take for the pattern to turn out how it's planned and the more they have to pay their employee.

Most of the time, companies that digitize patterns will also sell blank garments, or offer to embroider your pattern for you onto clothing, hats or afghans. This is especially handy if you have too many items to embroider, or if you don't have enough time to do all of the embroidery yourself.

The charge for a company to digitize your embroidery designs is actually very reasonable considering all of the above points. If you ever learn to digitize your own embroidery you would agree. It is a skill that deserves to be rewarded monetarily or otherwise. Fortunately we have a few off-shore companies providing excellent service at one third of the price. You would be very fortunate if you would find a similar company. Some companies offer a free trial so that you can try there services before you go into serious business with them. Excellent services & top notch quality is what everyone one wants. Do a search on goggle for cheap digitizing and you might find some company that could fit your expectations.
Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information on Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com.

Sewing Embroidery Designs At Home Is Real Fun.

When I first learned to embroider, I used a needle and embroidery floss. I learned to do counted cross stitch and to follow the pattern printed on a piece of fabric.

If you walk into a needlepoint area of a craft store now, most of what you see is counted cross stitch. You won't find many patterns calling for a satin stitch or French knot. If you want something more detailed than you can get with a counted cross stitch kit, you are severely limited to what you can find for patterns.

When embroidery machines came out, at first they were too expensive for a hobbyist to own. Businesses had them and would sell either pre-embroidered items or they would embroider items to order. With the cost of the machines going down, now you can buy an embroidery machine for home use. Though chances are, you'll want to sell the results of your work. With these machines, you are only limited by your imagination. You can get results similar to what you would buy in the store, 'Grandma shirts' with your children's or grandchildren's names, an afghan with flowers or other design and your wedding date, or the date of your child's birth. Or maybe you want your company's logo on a cap or shirt pocket. Maybe you want a bag with an embroidered dog or cat, a pumpkin for Halloween, a Menorah for Hanukah or a Christmas tree for Christmas. You can embroider a tablecloth and napkins to surprise someone for a wedding or anniversary.

With an embroidery machine, you get to see the pattern take shape before your eyes. Seeing it go from a clipart picture to a file on a computer to an result that you can touch is thrilling. Watching your pattern form as quickly as a machine will embroider is truly rewarding. It won?t take days or even weeks to get the results that you have planned. You can get your project done in minutes to hours depending on how much there is to the pattern and how many items you are doing.

With an embroidery machine, you get to choose what you want to embroider. If you can?t find the digital file for it either online or in a store, you can have the file specially made for you or you can digitize your own embroidery pattern.

Even with the steep learning curve of digitizing, the challenge of digitizing your own embroidery pattern can be as addictive as watching your embroidery take shape. Knowing that you made a project from start to finish will leave you with a feeling of accomplishment. All you need is a plan for what you are wanting to do, and an embroidery machine to start you off in the right direction.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information on Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com.

The Steep Learning Curve Of Digitizing Embroidery Designs

So you have your own embroidery machine and you want to use your own picture or pattern. Now what? How do you get your design digitized for your use?

The answer to that will depend on many things. Are you planning on embroidering as a hobby or will you be embroidering as a business? Is the program something you will use often, or will it sit unused on your hard drive for weeks or even months at a time? How much money do you have to spend? How much time do you have to spend? Remember, like any software, you can't return embroidery digitizing software once you have the package open.

If you are embroidering as a hobby or even if you have your own business, you may decide to contract out to digitize your embroidery pattern. After all, digitizing programs can be expensive. Not to mention, how difficult it is to learn all the ins and outs of the program and the steps to digitize a pattern.

Most digitizing programs promise 'auto-digitizing' features. This is great in theory. However, if your graphic isn't clean enough then you may spend a lot of time frustrated with your project. Many times, even if you have a clean graphic, you can't just input the graphic and expect everything to turn out exactly how you planned it. Most likely, you'll wind up wanting to go in and change something about how your design turned out.

Quite honestly, unless you know exactly what you're doing, or what stitch type you need where, you may end up totally frustrated at the end of the day. Your best bet is to learn everything you can about digital embroidery. You need to know about registration, compensation, stitch angles, underlay, stitch types, fill patterns, tie-offs, in and out points, and so much more. If you don't know these important points, not only will you end up frustrated, you may end up blaming yourself for the poor designs being generated by the digitizing software.

Before you spend your hard earned money on digitizing software, ask about classes in your area. Ask about digitizing classes in your area, or tutorials and training videos online. You will need the help and pointers. Be sure you fully understand all of the capabilities of the software you are considering. Make sure it is the right fit for your needs. Don't be pressured into buying something that isn't a good fit. Don't be lulled into all the hype on the package or in a high pressure sales pitch and think that all you need to do is install the program, import the graphic and you'll be ready to go.

Embroidery digitizing can be rewarding and fun, but it is an art form. Like any art form, be it playing the clarinet or painting a picture, practice is the best way for you to get more proficient at what you want to do.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information on Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com.

Colors Used In Embroidery Digitizing

Embroidery digitizing is an interesting concept of beautifying clothing and fabrics. Today practically all types of fabrics can be embroidered using the right stabilizer in embroidery digitizing. Though the practice of embroidery digitizing is rather easy where only a computer and embroidery digitizing software is required, there is always the possibility of complications arising with embroidery digitizing. However, with the right information and tips on embroidery digitizing, it is possible to come up with a design that is the eye of envy to everyone.

The most commonly used embroidery thread weight is 40wt thread while 60wt or 90wt thread is used as the bobbin thread. The number of thread breaks and problems that may occur in embroidery digitizing is greatly affected by the quality of thread used for it. The best thread to use is polyester thread as it is the most color safe and durable.

In embroidery digitizing, there is no problem in using different colors from the colors found in a design. There is also no need of fretting if you don?t have the same colors or brand of thread used in the design. Slight changes in the shades and tones of the colored threads don?t pose to be quite noticeable on the completion of the design.

Embroidery digitizing proves to be more interesting if you can adjust different colors for different fabrics colors. It is better to use the background color change feature found in the embroidery digitizing software to determine which color looks the best on the fabric you use. If this feature is absent in your software, keep different colors of felt and fabric nearby to test the different colors on them before starting on the design.

When starting on creating an embroidery digitizing design, it proves to be beneficial to go through the entire design collection to find out where the design look can be changed just with a color change. Even fruits and flower designs look different and more attractive with a color change in the design. So it can be seen that embroidery digitizing does not mean you have to follow the design that you find in the design book or software. You can create much more interesting and appealing designs by using your imagination and color instincts to make the design more interesting.

Sahel is the Sales/Support representative of Cheap Digitizing. You can find more information on Embroidery Digitizing on www.cheapdigitizing.com.

Embroidery and Screen Printings Tools of The Trade

Having the right equipment in the Embroidery and Screen Printing business, seems to make or brake you.

When we first started out we bought a commercial Embroidery machine and a Clam Shell Heat Press. Our thought process was that we would target companies and schools who needed Embroidery, and Heat Transfers. Our dealer also showed us a revolutional screen printing machine called, Direct-To-Garment Printers. We knew we couldn't compete with other companies with so view tools. We went back to the dealer and ask them to sell us the new machine.

Now we were armed with a full array of weapons to stand strong against our competitors. As we found out, we only had three pieces of the puzzle. We had to have more to make sure we could cover every aspect of the embroidery and screen printing business.

After watching a video about Sublimation, We were lucky enough to find an Epson 1280 printer on ebay for about half the cost else where. Though we still needed more tools, we quickly learn to create strategic alliances, and save money at the same time. Our alliances had the tools that we didn't have, and we had the tools they didn't have.

Now with many alliances, we found we don't need as much equipment to give our customers the best service possible. In fact, we outsource some of our work, especially when we need a well deserved vacation.

Take the time to start your business, if not keep learning as much as you can to keep you prepared for the next order you customers request. If you can't get enough equipment, than know where to send your work. You'll feel relieved to know someone else can do the work the way you want it and can provide your client with the same high quality as you do. www.embroideryandscreenprinting.com.

Paul Canales is the owner of Selanac Embroidery and Screen Printing. His experiences have helped him to succeed is this business that seemed to be saturated with other Embroiderers and Screen Printers. SWFeast's equipment also adds strength to this competitive busines.

What You Should Consider Before Buying Embroidery Online

Buying simply based on the lowest price is a recipe for disaster. The following are all factors in the final price for an embroidered item:

1. The cost of the item being embroidered

2. The cost of the embroidery. This will largely be affected by the complexity and size of your design. Most embroiderers charge by the number of stitches (such as $1.00 per 1,000 stitches)

3. Digitizing is commonly referred to as a one time charge for converting your design into a format usable with embroidery machines. Most shops charge a fee once per design for this conversion. If you pay for digitizing, find out if you will receive a copy of the embroidery file (which may be useable by other embroiderers in the future)

4. Shipping and handling of the goods from the embroiderer to your location

5. The number of items which you are purchasing should affect the price. As you order more, the price should come down. Some companies will require you to order a minimum number of items.

Quality is something that is difficult to assess from an online provider. Unless you have ordered from a company previously or they come highly recommended, how can you determine the quality which a company may produce?

Well, we have a few of recommendations which we suggest you follow when choosing your embroidery provider:

1. Does the provider offer any type of satisfaction guarantee?

2. Does the provider offer any samples?

3. Does the site contain testimonials from previous customers

4. If time permits and the supplier offers no minimum purchase quantities, buy a single item embroidered. This allows you to see quality of the embroidery and garment prior to placing a larger order. It also allows you to see how the sizing is on the garment.

A company with excellent service is something you do not want to be without. You will need to communicate details of your requirements. While web sites are great for gathering information, nothing beats being able to speak with someone or communicate via email your requirements or to get questions answered. Here are things to look for in a company:

1. Can you reach a live person via the telephone? This is important if questions or problems arise during your order process. Ideally the company should have a toll free number.

2. If you email the company with a question or request for quote, how quickly do they respond? Acceptable time frames are generally a response within 24 hours.

3. Make certain that you have the opportunity to view the finalized art work or sample before the job is started

4. Find out the length of time which the job will take to complete. If you have specific time requirements, be certain to communicate this to the embroiderer.

The Perfect Embroidery

What makes a perfect embroidered product? Have you ever noticed an embroidered logo or sewn garment? Did it strike you as being a quality produced product, or one that looked like it was mass produced and sewn in a "cheap" fashion?

Nearly 10 years ago I founded my Denver based embroidery company with only one thing in mind - Perfect Products. Finished products that people would notice and want to wear or display. Since then, our business has grown 1000 fold. And we have always kept to our motto of "perfect products, guaranteed quality, satisfied customers".

But what makes a quality, embroidered product? Let's begin with the design before it is sewn to the garment. Was your design created in vector art using Adobe Illustrator? From these "AI" files, we are able to utilize our custom digitizing techniques, which translate to machine readable files and subsequent sew-outs on our Tajima and Barudan Embroidery Sewing Stations. Another important ingredient is choice of color. Why chose a quality embroidered design while selecting a less than desirable color scheme? We use only the pantone color schemes when selecting our sew outs. And speaking of color schemes, what about thread selection? Have you ever considered that some embroidery threads are low-quality, and will break after only a short time in use? Our thread selections only allow for the best thread offerings, including Ackerman and (the German one). Threads are offered in nylon and cotton, depending on the article to be sewn. Make sure your embroidery company selects the appropriate thread, no matter what the color.

All of the above factors will be meaningless unless the digitized image has appropriate stitch count (density) when finally sewing the image. Make sure your design does not come up short when digitizing your image. Many companies will reduce stitch counts during digitizing to allow for less embroidery thread (cheaper) and less dense sewn images (less time to be sewn), all resulting in poor quality finished goods.

We at Corporate Imprints are aware of all the shortcuts, and assure all of our customers that only a quality finished product is our goal. Next time you inspect your embroidered shirt, cap, or other wearable; decide if it was produced with an eye on quality, or an eye on the embroidery company's bottom line. Then call us for a quote and with assurance that once we have earned your business, you will never need to look elsewhere for quality embroidered products.

Tammy Briggs is the owner of Corporate Imprints, a Denver, CO based machine embroidery company. Corporate Imprints offers state of the art in-house machine embroidery, keeping an eye on "Perfection" of finished goods, screen-printing, embossing, graphics consulting and design, and specialized imprinted promotional products (ASI Membership). Visit http://www.corpimprints.com to find out more!

How To Start Custom Embroidery Business In Chicago

By starting custom embroidery business in Chicago, you can become your boss. This is because only two other cities are bigger than the Chicago in the United States of America. The population of Chicago is more than eight million people. Chicago is a popular as mid continental shopping point. It is the financial, industrial, cultural and commercial center for a big area.

What Motivates People To Start This Business?

There are several reasons for which people would want to start a custom embroidery business in Chicago. Everybody wishes to live the life of financial freedom. Some people are creative artistes and want to use their flair in a business. Flexibility in working hours is also an important feature that attracts people towards this business. Many people also enter this field because they feel that through this business they can earn unlimited money.

You must be wondering over all these reasons and thinking over them before you decide to venture into this business. The very first factor affecting your decision will be the profitability of the business. No business owner will ever start a new business unless he is satisfied that he is going to earn a good amount of money with the business. Reasons for opting for this business are that almost everywhere people have the tendency of buying embroidered goods. So your business will definitely run as the risk factor is minimal. Besides, you have the liberty of choosing the timing of your business in this field. For example you can run your business on a part time basis or on the full time basis, as per your choice.

Benefits of Custom Embroidery Business:

There are many more advantages of starting a custom embroidery business in Chicago. For example, you do not need to learn any special skills for operating the equipments required in the business. Moreover, the initial investment required at the time of starting the embroidery business is a very small amount. The products you manufacture are very easily marketable and have full guarantee for any kind of defect. When we have a look at the figures of the custom embroidery industry our determination to start the custom embroidery business gets firm. You?ll be glad to know that custom embroidery industry enjoys an annual business of US $47 billion. So the future is really bright for the people who are entering this industry.

Advent of Computers Has Made a Big Difference:

Another big benefit of starting custom embroidery business in Chicago is that you can set up your workshop right at your home. During the whole process of the development of this business you do not have to spend a big amount of money at any point of time. With the advent of computers that are controlling the machines, you job has is even further easier as you can give out good quality products that will have a high demand in the market.

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