Hi guys, I really don't wish to burden anyone here and excuse me if this is the wrong forum for a complete newbie

Okay, my name is John and I'm in the UK. My partner & I just purchased an embroidery machine, a Brother BAS-416A, 9 needle, single head. I know it's like jumping in the deep end.

Anyway, what I need are some pointers on the basics of digitizing. I need to start from the beginning and learn. So if anyone could recommend a good resource for the basics I'd be grateful. Are there any video tutorials available for download or purchase that we would find useful?

Thanks in anticipation.

John

Well, i personally have been trying to find some videos as well. I didnt find any.

Here is one i found that may be usefull
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Let me know if you find any good resources. Meanwhile lets see if anyone can shared their knowledge or post a good tutorial.

MJ

Hi John,
Most any video you view will more than likely be tutoring you on specific software. If you do not have access to the software you'll likely have to purchase it. Most available are not cheap. If this is going to be a large portion of your income you may want to investigate the software available in your price range and learn that so eventually you can digitize and embroid your own work. Until you do know how to digitize, and it is not easy, you may be better off finding someone, like myself, that can do that portion of the work and send you the files and all you do is sew it. If you are planning on embroidery for a hobby, it may be cost effective to use what are called stock designs as your basic offering platform and when custom digitizing is needed have a digitizer in mind and send the custom work to them. Did your machine come with predigitized designs? I don't want to get preachy.. I am not sure what you already know so at the risk of boring you, I am going to stop.
Nadine
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First of all you should decide what software you would buy, once you have the software in hand (this could be a demo as well), you can start with its manual. Some software companies provide excellent help and step by step instructions to complete your design.

See if you can find a few demo versions of digitizing softwares like Corel Drawings, Wings XP, Wilcom ES, Tajima Pulse etc.

Look into the manuals and you will be suprised to see the information these compaines hand out in regards to survival and competition.

Talker

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I digitize all my designs to run center out and bottom up. Exspecially for hats. If you do this your design will sew on pretty much anything. You may still need to adjust densities for different types of clothing. A stitch density of about .40 is about the standard for most fabrics. I hope this will help ya.


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i have a couple of good embroidery resources, however the site wont let you post urls until you have 15 posts..so just add a www to the front and a com to the back of these:impressionsmag and stitches...stitches is by far better...a lot of articles on how to do stuff.

Both are definately good resources.. thanks for the links make_edit

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There are some tutorials on this site as well...not too bad..[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]