Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at
7:06 am
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The Memory Craft 9500 brings together all your favorite sewing and embroidery features in one hard-working sewing machine, combining the power and precision of a superior stitch mechanism with the sophistication of computerized Touch Screen control. From embellishment with decorative stitches and delicate heirloom work (there are 98 decorative and utility stitches to choose from!), to creative quilting and clothing construction, your sewing projects will go smoother and look better. And you’ll love it as a quilting machine.
Janome Memory Craft 9500 Embroidery & Sewing Machine with 5 Yr Ext Wnty
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Friday, October 30th, 2009 at
6:14 am
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Step up to the sophisticated but surprisingly easy to use computerized Brother PE770 (PE 770) Embroidery Machine. Containing features such as a USB Flash Drive Port, touchable LCD screen and 5″ by 7″ embroidery space. The USB Flash Drive Port allows you the ability to store thousands of embroidery designs on a USB Flash Drive! No matter what your project may be, let the revolutionary Brother PE-770 open the door to a whole new world of possibilities. The PE-770 has a generous 5″ x 7″ embroidery field allowing you to embroider many designs available on the market with ease. Enjoy embroidering pillows, blankets, shirts and more! With the PE-770 there is no end to your creativity. Even at the PE-770’s amazingly high speed of 650 stitches per minute, you will experience crisp and precise embroidery. A conveniently located Function Panel is located right in front of the user, allowing easy access to the Programmed Thread Trimming Button, Needle Up/Down Button and Start/Stop Button. When installing a bobbin in the Brother PE-770 Embroidery Machine simply drop in a full bobbin, thread in the direction of the arrow and you are ready to sew. The PE-770 has 136 built-in embroidery designs and 6 Built-In Fonts, so you can start embroidering right out of the box. With the Brother PE-770 Embroidery Machine you can position your design wherever you like, rotate your design, reflect your design and increase the size the size of your design right on the Brother PE-770 Embroidery Machine’s LCD Touch Screen. The Brother PE-770 also has On-Screen, Step-by-Step Instructions in case you ever need help. Elipse 4-Hoop Embroidery Package Included!!! (A $300 Value) This package contains an Extra Large 5″ x 12″ 3-Position Embroidery Hoop, a Large 5″ x 7″ Embroidery Hoop, a Small 4″ x 4″ Embroidery Hoop, an Extra Small 1″ x 2 1/2″ Pocket Hoop, 7 Spools of Polystar Embroidery Thread and a pair of embroidery stork scissors, a retail value of over $300, included!
Brother PE770 Embroidery Machine w/ USB Flash Port and Elipse 4-Hoop Embroidery Package w/ Embroidery Thread and Scissors
$898.99
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at
6:07 am
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at
7:31 am
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.
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at
6:16 am
Product Description
The Memory Craft 9500 brings together all your favorite sewing and embroidery features in one hard-working sewing machine, combining the power and precision of a superior stitch mechanism with the sophistication of computerized Touch Screen control. From embellishment with decorative stitches and delicate heirloom work (there are 98 decorative and utility stitches to choose from!), to creative quilting and clothing construction, your sewing projects will go smoother and look better. And you’ll love it as a quilting machine.
Janome Memory Craft 9500 Embroidery & Sewing Machine with 5 Yr Ext Wnty
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Monday, October 26th, 2009 at
7:01 am
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Brother’s PED-Basic® is the first step toward opening up a vast world of new embroidery designs for your emboirdery machine. PED-Basic® allows you to download embroidery designs, perform simple editing operations to embroidery data (.pes files) and write those .pes files to original cards for your embroidery machine. .pes files can also be purchased or obtained from the internet. PED-Basic® features three frame sizes, a realistic stitch design preview, print design previews which can be used as placement templates when embroidering and built-in embroidery samples.
Brother PED-Basic Software for Downloading Embroidery Designs
$119.00
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009 at
7:21 am
You may find that learning to digitize embroidery patterns with an embroidery digitizing program is an exciting challenge. You may even realize that you have a knack for getting the patterns to turn out very well.
If you are looking for extra income, you have a couple of choices when you own both an embroidery digitizing program and an embroidery machine. You can embroider patterns on bags and other items to sell them either online or at craft shows, or you can offer embroidery digitizing services.
If you have a knack for digitizing embroidery patterns, you might want to look into starting your own embroidery digitizing business. Keep in mind, starting a business is difficult, and may require quite a bit of money at the outset especially for advertising, but in the long run all of your advertising will pay off with people coming to you with their embroidery digitizing projects.
Deciding how to price your services for a crafting business can be tricky. You could go online and compare competitor prices for digitizing an embroidery pattern. Or you could figure out how long it takes to do a pattern based on the number of stitches you need to program. Once you have that figured out, decide what would be an acceptable hourly wage if that was all you were doing, then divide that hourly wage by how long it takes you to digitize an embroidery pattern for each number of stitches. For example, say you decide that you want to make $10 an hour. It takes you about 20 minutes to digitize an embroidery pattern that is approximately 1,000 stitches. To do an hour of work, you’d have to digitize 3 patterns at approximately 1,000 stitches each. If you charged $3.50 for each pattern you digitized that was approximately 1,000 stitches, you would earn slightly more than $10 for an hour’s worth of work.
Online, most companies that specialize in digitizing embroidery patterns split up their charges by how many thousands of stitches the pattern comprises. Once you have your approximate charge figured out, go online and see where your proposed charge compares with the charges for the companies you will be competing with. You may decide that you want to adjust your prices once you do some looking at competitor’s prices.
Once you settle on a price to charge for digitizing embroidery patterns, the next step will be to decide on advertising. If you want to focus only on local business, you can get some business cards printed up for a minimal fee at an office supply store, or you can check with your local newspaper to see what they charge for a small ad in the classified section of the paper. If you are going to advertise online, you will need to look into the cost of registering a domain and paying to have a website designed. Either way, you will need to advertise to start your business.
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at
6:04 am
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61 Large Spools of 1100 yards 40 Weight Polyester Embroidery Machine Thread, Same color and number as Brother Thread. Also Includes Wooden Thread Rack
61 Spools of Embroidery Machine Thread & Rack See larger image and other views Share your own customer images 61 Spools of Embroidery Machine Thread & Rack
$68.00
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