Free Embroidery Designs

I would like to buy some alphabet designs from the internet, and I have the PED Basic software to put them onto a memory card for my Brother PE-150 machine. If I remember correctly from my first machine(this is my second time owning this kind of machine), I can put the letters into individual files on the card. I want to know how to merge the letters into a word, such as a name, so that I don’t have to embroidery each letter individually. I haven’t yet opened the PED Basic program, because I wanted to find out if I needed something else first. Thanks!

You need an editing software program. Embird is very popular with home machine embroiderers. Your start with basic and then add other programs as you wish.

You can get a trial here – http://www.secretsof.com/content/1853?PHPSESSID=d577402e3683026a2f7c375ffeec4ca0

And here is a free tutorial for combining letters into words – http://www.annaboveembroidery.com/usemfo.html

I have a Janome Memory Craft 200E. I have never used an embroidery machine before, so this is all greek to me! What format do the designs I purchase/download need to be in?

If this is your machine – http://www.allbrands.com/products/abp13701-0160.html

You need the jef format.

If you find designs that you like, but they are not jef, you can convert them by using Pulse Ambassador. This is a free software download used by many machine embroiderers.

http://www.pulsemicro.com/ambassadordownload

Before you download designs, create a folder on the PC’s hard drive and name it Embroidery or something you can easily recognize.

When you download a design, select SAVE and the folder you created.

The design file may be compressed or zipped – you will have to open this before sending to the embroidery machine.

Highlight the design file and select open or extract. You will now have two files; the zipped file and the open file. You can delete the zipped file.

If the file has to be converted to jef, open Pulse Ambassador and find the design file. Open and then SAVE AS using the jef format.

Make sure the designs you download are within the limitations of the embroidery machine – this is usually signified by the size of the hoop.

Back up your embroidery folder to flash drive or cd every time you add or make a change. This will ensure the saftey of the folder should the PC go wonky and loose you hard work.

It is also a good idea to have a catalog program so you can see the designs – Windows cannot read machine embroidery designs.

You can check Embird, Buzz Tools or Ann The Gran for this software. ATG has a demo you can download and try for a limited period of time.

Embroidery Library has several free tutorials, videos, tips & techniques that are very helpful.

http://www.emblibrary.com/el/elprojects/holder.aspx?page=techniques

It’s amazing how often machine embroiderers search for free embroidery designs. At first glance, you may think that this is a great way to expand your design library and offset the price you paid for that high-priced embroidery machine. Free designs from the right sources are indeed a nice bonus but the bulk of these designs are poor quality and some may actually cost you dearly in legal fees. Find out what you need to know before you download or accept any free design!

What Are Free Embroidery Designs?
For purposes of this discussion, I’m talking about free designs you can download from the internet. Other “free” designs might be a special bundle you get with the purchase of a product. Most often these bundles consist of collections that are normally offered for sale but are added as a special bonus offer to entice you to buy. Free designs on the internet include a design that might be free this month only but then go to a regular price and designs that are perpetually free of cost.

For more information on free machine embroidery designs click here

It’s amazing how often machine embroiderers search for free embroidery designs. At first glance, you may think that this is a great way to expand your design library and offset the price you paid for that high-priced embroidery machine. Free designs from the right sources are indeed a nice bonus but the bulk of these designs are poor quality and some may actually cost you dearly in legal fees. Find out what you need to know before you download or accept any free design!

What Are Free Embroidery Designs?
For purposes of this discussion, I’m talking about free designs you can download from the internet. Other “free” designs might be a special bundle you get with the purchase of a product. Most often these bundles consist of collections that are normally offered for sale but are added as a special bonus offer to entice you to buy. Free designs on the internet include a design that might be free this month only but then go to a regular price and designs that are perpetually free of cost.

For more information on free machine embroidery designs click here