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OT. wife got a new sewing machine

this is her first attempt at sewing my F4F name what yall think.

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Very nice. Your wife is very talented.

Amazing what machines can do these days.

That looks great! 
How big is it?

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That looks awesome.. Your wife is very talented..

We can start our own bowling team.

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We can start our own bowling team.

i know right!!! Its about 4 x2 1/2. She can make it bigger or smaller.. I told her to make me a shirt covered in different colored figs.

Wow that looks great. Well done Mrs Boni. Richard thanks for sharing!

Just curious how that works.  Does she scan an image and program it into the sewing machine somehow?  How expensive of a machine is necessary for this sort of thing?

I'm interested in knowing the make and model of this sewing machine. Please share. Thank you.

that is very cool

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it would be an Embroidery machine. We have a Brother innovis 2800d.
all data has to be written into a stitch file that the machine can read to know in what manner to lay stitches. There is plenty of text, and graphics out there already formatted that you can download, and then use on your machine via jumpdrive. As far as scanning an image, that is possible, but you have to scan that image into the stitch file the machine needs, and that can get pretty complicated. it is called digitizing, and most shops charge a nice fee to do it. you can get machines starting at a little under a thousand dollars, but you are limited to the size area you can embroider. the smaller machines will have a 4X4 frame, and then they on up from there.

what he said lol. Just got back to read post. There is a place that you give a image too and they will create a stick file for 20 dollers on up depending on size of file. You can buy stick files like this one for five dollers and get two free from the free file se ction

All pc files have a .something.  If you can read the file from windows explorer in a details window you'll see the file extension, which is the part after the ".".  If you can't find it, send any of those files to me via email and I'll get it.  The scanners that come with printers, a digital camera and your camera phone are ways of digitizing a picture.  Then you need a converter to turn the file your phone, camera or scanner creates into the stitch file.  Stitch files may (or may not) vary by manufacturer.   If you send me a few stitch files and a photo of the pattern each one makes (be sure to keep those straight) I can probably find a converter.  Once you have a converter you can do it all yourself

Louisiana FIG WASP LOL

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My friend has a baby lock embroidery machine she bought several years ago. She can scan any image into the sewing machine and have it create an embroidery motif.

http://www.babylock.com/

Click on the Destiny video under new products.

Wow, Sue, $15k for a fancy "sewing machine"! LOL

Is that

the price of that machine. Come on. I just watched the video. I was going to sell some figs and buy it lol

Yes it is. 15,000 dollers thats alot of figs right there

Harvey,

That is what I paid for my longarm quilting machine and it's not computerized outside of stitch regulation. It's on a 12' table and in my garage (garage is dry walled and the machine is on a nice carpet). The garage is where I house my 'quilting business'. The computerized longarm models go for $35-$50K. I've never been interested in an embroidery machine. I'm just happy I have a friend who has one that I can pay for her services when needed...usually lunch. :-)

Excellent  work.   You guys are all so talented.    Joyce 

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