Bev's Artistic Embroidery blog - All Comments

re: Off Shore Digitizing

topitoff — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:15:42 GMT

Hi Beverley,

Sounds like you had a real lemon on the line with this. I have had several similar contacts with groups saying they are in Texas, California and Canada. I usually use the free offers for something simple as I only do very simple in house and I am glad to get a freebee. I get various quality but usually okay after some changes. I usually have to settle for DST and so do not continue to use them. However, while you get what you pay for, not all off shore groups are either incompetent or less than forthright ("dishonest"). If you can find a dependable group somewhere in China which does good work, it is hard to pay several times the price for Made in USA. It is a world market now, I am concerned about quality and honesty rather than locale.

re: Embroidery Operator for a Week, a great way to check out your business.

G*DuB — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:59:45 GMT

That's worth a 'Gold' medal...

Nice one!

Hi Bev.

Graham

re: Leather

j rhinehart — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:40:28 GMT

I have microfiber jackets, are they any thing like doing leather?

What type needle, backing, topping, etc..

re: Idea from Day Two of the Trade Show

dbrokenburr — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:40:47 GMT

Hey, Beverly. I have used that vinly like product. It works great and comes in colors and a frosted-like clear. It's perfect under things like snowman fills or anytime you do not want the base color to show through. Also great on just regular fabrics with no naps or piles.

Deborah

re: Christmas is coming…

reesb — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:28:03 GMT

HI Beverley,

You have a good idea and I thought I would add to it an alternative that you might benefit from in the now...when you are in the Vertex Select Tool, you can hold the (CTRL) key down and click on just the anchor points that you wish to select.

If you have a lot of anchor points, try using the Reduce Nodes foind in the right click menu and then reselect the anchor points to edit.

re: Digitizing!

henningdesign — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:02:01 GMT

I enjoy reading your posts. Been digitizing since 88 and using Pulse about 9 years.

re: "DUH"

embroidthis — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:45:48 GMT

I had that "moment" about 6 months ago. I just like being able to know what size I can make a particular font. thanks for sharing

re: Help me Help!

closse — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:47:38 GMT

i just hired a salesman..how long would you give him to start producing orders..it's going on week 2 and nothing yet..should i be more patient?

re: Help me Help!

Pulse_Roland — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:27:30 GMT

Hi Beverly, you listed quite everything that is usefull for any embroiderer / digitizer to know when doing text. Make sure you also explain the "old fashioned" semiautomatic way of digitizing small letters. I recommend you to load one TTF to explain block type example using for ex Arial or Avant Garde and another example with a font that has serifs for ex. Rockwell Bold or Times New Roman.

When doing very small text heights, make sure you will end up with column widths of at least 1 mm. In order to achieve that, you can use the Offset Tool which is really great to widen shapes.

Make sure to explain the gridlines at the bottom and top of text. They should be 0.2 mm in order to compensate round letters vs. straight letters.

Good luck for your seminar

re: Help me Help!

plong — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:47:29 GMT

Dealing with very small lettering

re: Do you play with your Run?

cserfontein — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:09:54 GMT

Thank you very much ... I am a rookie in the digitizing world and like to learn as much as I can. These tips on using the RUN is great.

re: Something Old, Something New......

G*DuB — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:23:00 GMT

Agreed.

Thank you Pulse.

Graham

re: I Like Borders

e sesto — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:15:40 GMT

Personally, I don't like borders. It adds to the stitchcount and it gives it a "patch" look. Just my opinion. E. Sesto

re: "DUH"

tcrowe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:38:57 GMT

I have never had a formal class on the software and want you to know your "DUH" moment provided great insight for me.