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Re: about freebie hunters!!!
ruth pullella
The thoughts expressed below just brought a load of emotion to me. I wish I could express myself like this as these statements truly reflect my feelings about the hobby we share and the appreciation not often expressed enough. I too had to retire at age 55 due to severe heart trouble. I am trying to build a small craft business to sell my items at fairs and through my nieces store in Louisianna as my health permits. Sewing is about one of the only things I can do, housecleaning ( like vacuuning) is almost impossible for me to manage. While I am able to buy a few sets when I sell some of my items, I do use the freebies and only download them when I can use them. I try to return the gratitude by posting to the groups I belong to and offering help when I can.
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Maybe if we stop to think of others more than ourselves, the spirit of sharing will shine through. Thank you all digitizers. Deb Conley <grandmakittykat@...> wrote: Dear Mom, It's this attitude that makes you so special. I really appreciate you and all of the other digitizers who give wonderful freebies AND keep their prices affordable. You are just as gracious as your mentors. It's good to see someone who wants to keep the old ways going. The back biting and lack of gratitude on the groups is getting to be overwhelming. And yet, when something bad happens to one of ours, everyone seems to rally round and offer all kinds of help. That's very encouraging to me. I don't EXPECT freebies. I APPRECIATE them. Just like any other gift I'm given. I understand why digitizers are only giving designs on their yahoo groups now. We have the design pirates to thank for that. And yes, I'll admit, I'm a lurker on the groups I belong to. Not because I don't want to join in, but because I don't have time. I work full time and have a home to take care of. AND, I like to get a litte embroidering done on occasion. There are two sides to every story. Let's not judge anyone until you know the full story. So, on that note, please stop the whining and complaining. All it does is make people feel bad. Let's start sharing positive things with each other and lifting each other up. Before you write something to the group, think about how you would feel if you were the recipient. Have a wonderful day everyone. I'm off to work. HUGS, Deb Conley Moderator, ----- Original Message -----
From: Miems Kemp To: HookedOnEmbroidery@... Maybe the best will be to reward our customers on every purchase with a free design each time, than to just put free designs up every day, week or what ever??? That is what most will say and want??? But then again,we have to think about those who try to make a living and have to put food on the table by sewing out free designs on something??? to earn that money My dear digitizers friends let us live and let live, if your designs are good enough they'll buy it anyway and why not say thank you to the world and show your appresiation and reward the visitors to your website with a free design they also spend time and money to visit your website This is my hobby but to alot it is there sole income and I can underdstan why most are so against reebie hunters. But can I tell you a secret the biggest free hunters of the past are today my best customers. I ones was FREEBIE HUNTER TOO.......................spend hours to download tons of designs for free and was'nt aware of the time and efford that goes into them. Those are still my most sprecious designs. Maybe it is time to turn the clock back and regain respect for each other. Let us be one happy sewing family like in the old days when grandma and mom etc show the girls to do whatever they learned from years ago??? Only we as digitizers can turn that clock back. My rolemodels will stil be Santi,Elsa,Eurika,Sharon,Viviene.....................and of cause my daughters..................... Come on girls this is sew much fun and we realy need each other to be part of this hobby we all love sew much!!!!! And please be patiend with the mall owners............they realy have a tough time because e are alot screaming in there ears...................LOL Hope you all enjoy a wonderfull day Your Group MOM Miems |
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Re: Deduper, etc as mentioned on Hooked on Embroidery
Carolyn Faulk
Like you, I had TONS of zip files of designs, and so I bought the Deduper
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program and had not realized that it was going to make all those individual folders. I was stunned when I saw it. No way was I going to open thousands of folders one at at time to move the designs out. So, my sweet hubby went into our back-ups of my computer folders (pre-Deduped date) on my computer, and he brought in the original Download folder again for me. (I re-named the Download folder that I had Deduped before bringing in the back-up copy) I used Buzztools to convert all the downloaded zips to PES......then I Deduped all those. I still have a bit of a mess to try to go through, but am figuring out which ones to delete a bit easier than the time I was having of opening each Deduped folder to move the design out. If I think of a better method, I will bring in that old back-up copy of download and try again. Thank goodness for back-ups! Like you, the Deduper was not the bargain that I thought it was going to be for my needs......but it has it's use and it's place. If you think of a better way to do what I have been trying to do, let me know. (I did not want to reply to Hooked on Embroidery, as I did not wish to start a big arguement on the list) :) Has anybody figured out how not to have all the designs that Deduper Dedupes --
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Re: Deduper and Buzz Tools or WIlcom 9.0
bingen100
I understand what you're saying.
I just purchased DeDuper and was startled to see how it placed each design in it's own folder. There is certainly a good rational for doing it like this as it keeps the jpgs, pdfs, and docs together with the design. Some file names bear no relation to the design name. Very handy for projects, etc. However, it is a total pain if there is only one file in each folder as you have to go through each folder one-by- one to put them in a joint folder. We need to request they create the option for seperate folders or a single folder. In the meantime, we will need to look around for a batch file to combine folders. If I find one I'll post it on this board. Pat Has anybody figured out how not to have all the designs thatDeduper Dedupes NOT go into individual folders in the MAIN named folder? When thishappens Buzz Tool will only give you ONE design per page instead ofmultiple same with Wilcom 9.0. I need to be able to quickly SEE all my designswith Wilcom or Buzz Tool by catalogue, not one design at a time. I've beentrying to explain my problem on other groups but they aren't getting it, theyseem to think it's my Buzz Tool setting, yes I have it set to multipledesigns, but when the Deduper puts each and every design into it's ownindividual folder these programs can only see what's in that one folder, so if thereis just one design in each folder they only will show one design. I haveover 10,000 designs I would like to Dedupe, but don't have days of spare timeto do it. I'm trying to figure out how to easily get all these designsDeduped and then somehow put back into one main category folder not thousandsof folders my money on this program. |
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Re: about freebie hunters!!!
Hi everybody
I read all the comments about freebie hunters and can only say thank you to all the digitisers that are so generous in giving freebies. When I bought my embroidery machine just over two years ago, I had no idee what can be achieved on my machine. I was very nervous to try all the different techniques and looking at the prices, was very nervous to buy. Living in South Africa and having to buy in dollars was just too expensive. As I got more confident with it, and thats thanks to everybody in all the various groups who so generously share there knowledge and designs, I got braver and pulled out the credit card and started buying some of the design sets that I have been dying to try. I still freebie hunt, who doesn't LOL, but because of the freebies that allowed me to gain confidence in the various techniques, have got no problem in buying a design (or two) when there is some spare cash in the household budget!! Therefor, I would like to say thank you to everybody out there that through there freebies and advise help those of us that really got no idea of the scope and creativity of the machine embroidery world when they buy a machine. I love my machine and it is the best investment I have ever made. Thank you kindly and happy stitching everybody! Helena Durban South Africa --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. |
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Re: Penquins_Ramon
I just looked at the Penguins, so cute. What size are they? I looked but didn't see that information. I did check for it but I may have overlooked it.
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From: "Lisa Le Roux" <catswiskersembroidery@...> To: <HookedOnEmbroidery@...> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 6:06 AM Subject: [HookedOnEmbroidery] Penquins_Ramon Hi Ramon |
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Re: CRACK Recipe
137838 enter this in the message number at the top in the search page.
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If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will get more commentary of the recipe. -------Original Message-------
From: rnlnnurse Date: 1/20/2007 1:17:40 PM To: HookedOnEmbroidery@... Subject: [HookedOnEmbroidery] CRACK Recipe Dear members, I have searched & searched, and cannot find the recipe that has been menyioned quite a few times recently. Could someone be so kind as to direct me to it, or to e-mail it to me privately? Regards, LINDA LNelsonRN@... |
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free designs
Martha Beets
Something I think would be wonderful, if before you grab the freebie is you could see what you were getting. I don't want to just download a freebie just because it is free. I like something I know I would use. I do love getting the free ones because I'm on fixed income so I can't get many. There is some designs out there I would love to have but have to wait until I can get them. I want to thank the people who gives them to us, where they are fancy or just plain jane.
Martha B (OK) --------------------------------- Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. |
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Re: In re topic Unsubbing and being banned - cheap designs
PJR
I'm not talking pro or con about any particular group, but I agree with you that you can't lump everyone into the same grouping. There are some lovely inexpensive (cheap) designs out there, and there are also some expensive designs that aren't worth a darn. Same as in anything you get at the store, sometimes higher price means higher quality, but if you shop around, often you can find quality for less.
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When I download designs (free or bought) I add a two or three letter identifier to the file name (I keep a list of what letters are for what site). That way if I don't stitch it immediately, I can later tell where a bad or good design came from, and add it to my list of sites to either stay away from or frequent. Merriweather ----- Original Message -----
From: <dollarstitch@...> To: <HookedOnEmbroidery@...> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [HookedOnEmbroidery] Re: In re topic Unsubbing and being banned I have to differ with you, cheap doesn't always mean cheap quality, our designs are very low cost, but we have them tested by 3 or 4 people to make sure they are very good designs before we release them. I respect your opinion, but it's not fact. We (my husband and I) normally can put out 30 to 40 designs a week, I have over 20 testers and when all goes well, (which it hasn't this week) but normally we can put out designs pretty fast and they are not auto digitized. (my personal opinion is auto digitzed designs are junk) but again that is my opinion. We sell afordable designs, but they sure are not cheaply done. |
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5 x Beautiful Machine Crochet Doilies:
annemarie
5 x Beautiful machine Crochet Doilies in a range called "Cascading Crochet
Doily". The daintiest machine crochet-work you have done. It looks like a doily done by hand, the same as your granny did. :-) And for a limited time there is a promotional price for all 5 of them: To see the collections, use the links: Kind regards Annemarie -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.1/640 - Release Date: 1/19/2007 4:46 PM |
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Re: Things the Bug me...
PJR
My daughter made me a lapquilt not long after she started quilting (it is gorgeous), and expressly informed me that should she find out it wasn't being used, she would take it back, LOL. She loves that when she sees photos (she lives quite a distance) of our house, it's always on the sofa in the background, but rarely neatly folded, as it's used often.
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From: "Vicki Backman" <vickibackman76@...> To: <HookedOnEmbroidery@...> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [HookedOnEmbroidery] Things the Bug me... Since we are on this line of things that bug us... What really bugs me is when I make something for someone, and it is to be USED not to be just looked at. Like I made a Scrap quilt last year for my brother in law and his wife and son. It was onlly the size of a lap quilt for if you were in a chair or on the sofa. I told Pam to USE it and she was like "OOOHH no, it is way to pretty to be used." I dont like to see the things I made put away. I like to see them out and getting worn and dirty.... lol |
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Re: about freebie hunters!!!
Deb Conley
Dear Mom,
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It's this attitude that makes you so special. I really appreciate you and all of the other digitizers who give wonderful freebies AND keep their prices affordable. You are just as gracious as your mentors. It's good to see someone who wants to keep the old ways going. The back biting and lack of gratitude on the groups is getting to be overwhelming. And yet, when something bad happens to one of ours, everyone seems to rally round and offer all kinds of help. That's very encouraging to me. I don't EXPECT freebies. I APPRECIATE them. Just like any other gift I'm given. I understand why digitizers are only giving designs on their yahoo groups now. We have the design pirates to thank for that. And yes, I'll admit, I'm a lurker on the groups I belong to. Not because I don't want to join in, but because I don't have time. I work full time and have a home to take care of. AND, I like to get a litte embroidering done on occasion. There are two sides to every story. Let's not judge anyone until you know the full story. So, on that note, please stop the whining and complaining. All it does is make people feel bad. Let's start sharing positive things with each other and lifting each other up. Before you write something to the group, think about how you would feel if you were the recipient. Have a wonderful day everyone. I'm off to work. HUGS, Deb Conley Moderator, ----- Original Message -----
From: Miems Kemp To: HookedOnEmbroidery@... Maybe the best will be to reward our customers on every purchase with a free design each time, than to just put free designs up every day, week or what ever??? That is what most will say and want??? But then again,we have to think about those who try to make a living and have to put food on the table by sewing out free designs on something??? to earn that money My dear digitizers friends let us live and let live, if your designs are good enough they'll buy it anyway and why not say thank you to the world and show your appresiation and reward the visitors to your website with a free design they also spend time and money to visit your website This is my hobby but to alot it is there sole income and I can underdstan why most are so against reebie hunters. But can I tell you a secret the biggest free hunters of the past are today my best customers. I ones was FREEBIE HUNTER TOO.......................spend hours to download tons of designs for free and was'nt aware of the time and efford that goes into them. Those are still my most sprecious designs. Maybe it is time to turn the clock back and regain respect for each other. Let us be one happy sewing family like in the old days when grandma and mom etc show the girls to do whatever they learned from years ago??? Only we as digitizers can turn that clock back. My rolemodels will stil be Santi,Elsa,Eurika,Sharon,Viviene.....................and of cause my daughters..................... Come on girls this is sew much fun and we realy need each other to be part of this hobby we all love sew much!!!!! And please be patiend with the mall owners............they realy have a tough time because e are alot screaming in there ears...................LOL Hope you all enjoy a wonderfull day Your Group MOM Miems |
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Re: In re topic Unsubbing and being banned
I would like to add to what Connie just said; I know Connie's designs; I use to test for her; They are not done cheaply. Connie and Bart have quality designs. They sell them at a low price so people who are on a fixed income can buy them. So, my point is not all low cost designs are done cheaply.
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From: dollarstitch@... To: HookedOnEmbroidery@... Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [HookedOnEmbroidery] Re: In re topic Unsubbing and being banned I have to differ with you, cheap doesn't always mean cheap quality, our designs are very low cost, but we have them tested by 3 or 4 people to make sure they are very good designs before we release them. I respect your opinion, but it's not fact. We (my husband and I) normally can put out 30 to 40 designs a week, I have over 20 testers and when all goes well, (which it hasn't this week) but normally we can put out designs pretty fast and they are not auto digitized. (my personal opinion is auto digitzed designs are junk) but again that is my opinion. We sell afordable designs, but they sure are not cheaply done. Connie Perry ---------------------------------------------- Http://www.dollarstitch.com Gossip runs over more people then cars do ----- Original Message ----- From: Shirley To: HookedOnEmbroidery@... Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:16 PM Subject: [HookedOnEmbroidery] Re: In re topic Unsubbing and being banned I agree with you 100% Linda. It seems all people want nowadays is free, free, free, or cheap, cheap, cheap. You can tell those groups that give away tons of free designs. They have the highest membership. Do you think 1/2 of those members would be there if the owner didn't give away free, free, free? I highly doubt it! I have been to some of those groups and have downloaded some of the free ones. After stitching them out, I unsubbed myself and took them off my list to check out their website. I can't believe that some of these so-called digitizers even sell anything. I recently also downloaded a free set being given away during this month. I opened 1 design and noticed it had 23 color changes! LOL I had to chuckle. I also compared the actual stitchout to the picture of the design. It looked nothing like the picture and that's why it bugs me that digitizers don't use actual scanned images. Someone said that not all digitizers have a scanner or digital camera. I don't believe that should be an excuse. Scanners can be bought for less than $50. I want to see what a design looks like (in real life) before I am going to purchase anything. The digitizers who use the generated images from the programs they are using are just trying to fool everybody. I could go on and on, but have said enough I guess. I have decided that I will only download a free design to check out the digitizer's work and only for those I am considering to buy. You can almost tell immediately those that pump out a new collection every few days that they are using auto-digitizing programs. I don't call this digitizing. And maybe that's why they sell them so cheap. Yes, cheap. And cheap is what the final product looks like. Shirly . |
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Re: about freebie hunters!!!
Miems, I think you hit the nail on the head. I think if we digitizers would admit it, we all started out as Freebie Hunters. We got our first little embroidery machine and it was like an addition, from designs to software to digitizing our own and not even having time to stitch anymore, so collecting designs became a thing of the past. I find that since I started digitizing professionally, I give away more than I sell. Maybe someday that will change, but I have enjoyed seeing my designs stitched and enjoyed so much, that I can't help giving them away.
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As for the sharing of designs, I know that when I got my first machine, nobody told me about sharing, copyrights or any thing like that. If we don't explain to new embroiders, what and why, they will think, "If it's free, why can't a give it too my friend?" Instead of fussing about things, we all need to learn to explain the "why's" in a nice way. Thanks for your outlook on things. Mudd ----- Original Message -----
From: Miems Kemp To: HookedOnEmbroidery@... Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:29 PM Subject: [HookedOnEmbroidery] about freebie hunters!!! Recent Activity a.. 73New Members b.. 5New Photos c.. 1New Files Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS a.. Embroidery equipment b.. Embroidery software c.. Custom embroidery d.. Embroidery business e.. Embroidery machine Find Deals Yahoo! Shopping Find great deals for Back to School. Y! GeoCities Share Your Resume Show off your talent and skills. Sell Online Yahoo! makes it easy to start selling online. . |
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about freebie hunters!!!
Maybe the best will be to reward our customers on every purchase with a free
design each time, than to just put free designs up every day, week or what ever??? That is what most will say and want??? But then again,we have to think about those who try to make a living and have to put food on the table by sewing out free designs on something??? to earn that money My dear digitizers friends let us live and let live, if your designs are good enough they'll buy it anyway and why not say thank you to the world and show your appresiation and reward the visitors to your website with a free design they also spend time and money to visit your website This is my hobby but to alot it is there sole income and I can underdstan why most are so against reebie hunters. But can I tell you a secret the biggest free hunters of the past are today my best customers. I ones was FREEBIE HUNTER TOO.......................spend hours to download tons of designs for free and was'nt aware of the time and efford that goes into them. Those are still my most sprecious designs. Maybe it is time to turn the clock back and regain respect for each other. Let us be one happy sewing family like in the old days when grandma and mom etc show the girls to do whatever they learned from years ago??? Only we as digitizers can turn that clock back. My rolemodels will stil be Santi,Elsa,Eurika,Sharon,Viviene.....................and of cause my daughters..................... Come on girls this is sew much fun and we realy need each other to be part of this hobby we all love sew much!!!!! And please be patiend with the mall owners............they realy have a tough time because e are alot screaming in there ears...................LOL Hope you all enjoy a wonderfull day Your Group MOM Miems |
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New Sales, Bonus Offers, Projects & Designs !
Hi everyone,
A short note to let you know that there are some great Sales on at the moment, as well as lots of lovely new designs. Don't miss the fantastic New Year Sale at Oh Sew New! All designs have 40% off until the end of January. Clinton specializes in beautiful designs suitable for table linen, cushions, curtains, etc. Michelle's Designs new Cottage Rose Quilt embroidery project features a darling three-dimensional quilt with eyelet ruffles, eyelet floral centers and buttons. This raw edge applique quilt is simple and gives a nice finished look, making it a great quilt for anyone interested in applique or piece quilting. Michelle's project book shows you how to get wonderful results whether you are a beginner or have been quilting for years! The book features full color step-by-step detailed sewing instructions, stabilizing instructions, over 50 full color photos & graphics, and so much more! The lone figure on his weary horse depicted in the new End of the Trail design from Outback Embroidery, is one of the most recognized symbols of the American West. It is viewed as a reverent memorial to a great and valiant people. This striking scene is made up from 12 individual designs with a basting stitch around the outside. A delightful new bonus Snowman design will be emailed to you FREE with any orders for The Purple Hat. This year Anne will be offering a Calendar Snowman series, with a new seasonal snowman each month so keep a look out for these charming bonus designs. Click through for details and some great bargains. Kind regards, Jann Baird at Secrets of Embroidery the one-stop Embroidery Shop with Customer Points |
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Re: In re topic Unsubbing and being banned
doreen
Shirley some digitizers just give away cheap designs that are done fast to draw you in. I rarely DL free designs anymore Have my favorites that I buy from. If the digitizers want to draw in customers they best take time to do a descent sample
Sewing hugs Doreen........... jandor@... Email for pricing Sales of Vilene & Embird .. www.crittersncrafts.com. I ship World wide moderator/list Mom |
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