Just wondering. What is the most you are willing to pay for a single design? How about a set? There are some I would love to have but just wont pay such high prices. Bev
4873 Please read the article at the link below
as it may help you to understand the REAL
COST of digitising designs.
Until you actually try digitising yourself,
you really can't appreciate the value
of a well digitised design. It certainly
opened my eyes!
Now when I see a design, i think, "if
i really want it i can digitise it (for)
myself".....
then I look at the cost of the design and
think "nah! I'd rather pay THAT
than spend all my time digitising
it!".....
especially if I know the digitiser has a
good reputation for being a great
digitiser.
The more you get into embroidery, the more
you will learn to recognise the great
designs from the mediocre and that should
be your guide on how much you are willing
to pay for a design.
Hugs n roses, Meganne, Melide Menschen
Designs
www.designsbysick.com
44628 I have 75 plus of the memory cards that I purchased when I first got my Singer XL and my Esante. Needless to say that the cheapest of them came in at about $125.00 on up to almost $200.00. I do not think I have purchased a memory card since I got my Ellageo. I have ordered some designs online and even purchased some from the dealer but they downloaded them from Cd's to CD's for me. They had their own equipment and a license to copy the Great Notions Amazing Designs. They all had $50.00 on them but I bought 2 Baby Locks from them and I would call them and tell them what I wanted and they would mail them to me or have them ready when I rolled into town. I got a very good price on those when I bought more than 1 or 2 and I never knew when to quit! I have more designs than I could sew in 10 lifetimes and I still keep copying! The bad thing about it is that I have no close friends or relatives that embroidery. Well I do have 1 close friend but she worked at Branums where I got my Baby Locks for years and her Hubby still works there. She has more of everything than I do! My DIL is not interested in learning how to use them. My son already knows but has no patience at all! He could not sit there and wait for a design to sew. If there was a flub, he would take it off the machine and throw it away. Gone forever, never to be seen again! I have 1 cousin that I am close to and my will is made out to her but she has no time to do anything else more than she does now. She is very active in the church, has 3 children and all of them have several children and she makes wedding/groom cakes for just about the whole town of Glennville, Ga. She does not want to do crafts anymore. She is 62 also. I was born in Dec of 46 and she was born in March of 47. My due date was Feb 14 of 47, but mama says I always got in a hurry to everything. I weighed 4 lbs. You ought to see me now. I made up for lost time, although I have lost so much weight that my clothes are falling off me.
by lildoll 23 Jun 2009
i am 66 and have no idea of stopping sewing ever, i have an esante also love it. if you die before me i would love to have your ellageo,if you have no one to will it too, happy sewing ,Lildoll
by lflanders 23 Jun 2009
I really do like the Ellageo better because you can download a design off the computer onto a floppy disc and pull it out and carry it straight to the sewing machine. I keep a generous supply of empty disc on hand to copy any free designs I find that I like and I just bought some from SICK while they were running the $1.00 a set sale. I downloaded each set twice just in case something happened to the disc. It took me 15 minutes to download them and I was ready to sew. When I download an alpha I copy a picture of the alpha and run it through the xyron, peel the backing off, put it on an envelope and put the disc in the envelope. I have seperate plastic containers for the alpha designs with the pictures on the outside of the envelope. No guesses as to what the alpha looks like.
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11697 Hello Bev,
When I have made a purchase, I always wait
for sales. And I mean BIG sales.
I can't justify spending what some of
these ladies fork out. Actually, I'd
rather put the money away in my IRA
account. :-) LOL
26946 Bev, what a loaded question - I have spent more on a design or a set - because I wanted it - but I will not tell - lol.
89876 Probably one of the best policies to go by is YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Usually digitizing goes by the stitch count and time spent to create the designs. If you pay a little more for a single design or a design pack, you are usually gettting a better design. The better digitized designs cost more, but they should sew out almost perfectly.
477 I am just a beginning embroiderer and don't feel ready or qualified to pay big bucks for designs I might ruin! I do have memberships in this site, Amazing designs and Designs by Sick. I like Embroidery Library and they are always having some type of special ( like buy $10 worth for 5, get 5 designs free with a certain amt. of purchase - that is when I choose my more expensive designs). I suppose there is no set answer - if you really like something and want it for a special person or event then it would certainly be worth the extra money. I hope I will feel more confident in my ability before too long so I could consider a nice, big project!
by meganne 21 Jun 2009
Just my opinion,,,, but you can't ruin
a good design!
Quite the opposite, if you use a poorly
digitised, cheap and nasty design, THAT is
what causes the most project disasters.
Even designs that LOOK great can be
disastrous because they lack underlay or
are not dense enough and look skimpy, so
you find you have to stitch over them a
second time to get some substance and this
can cause, "lack of
definition".
Every Emblibrary design I have stitched has
always turned out perfect, unlike some I
have purchased from SICK, (created only by
certain digisiters there).
Some embroiderers don't like the
denseness of Emblibrary and/or SOME Sick
designs.
It is a matter of personal opinion and a
lot depends on your embroidery machine as
to which designs it stitches out well,
without problems.
(it also depends on your
material-thread-needle-stabiliser-stitch
speed, etc, etc.)
But in the end it all comes down to
experience, learning which digitisers
designs are WORTH what they are charging
and which you would not even accept as a
gift.
hugs n roses, M
by ginghamgoose 22 Jun 2009
I appreciate your input - maybe that is why I have had some bad experiences! I always think it is machine and lack of skill but maybe I need to try some different design sites!
466 $30.00/set. I know it's alot but there were many combinations to use, and because it was baby stuff and cross stitch, I'll use them over and over. OH--and those husqvarna viking design cards--WOW. I paid $81 for quilt designs, but never again, even tho they stitch out great.
7174 Unless it is a licensed design, I wouldn't pay an outrageous amount of money for it. There are excellent digitizers at Oregon PatchWorks, Stitchery Mall, etc. and their sets usually run in the $25 range. BFC Creations has outstanding sets and windows for $30-$60. These are really good digitizers, as is Embroidery Library, and their sets are not too high a price. I think $55 for a set of butterflies is too much. Sometimes you'll find that with digitizers like John Deer, OESD, some of the bigger names, that while the digitizing is excellent, you're also paying for the 'name'. Less famous people can still do super digitizing for a more reasonable price. If you're talking Disney or NASCAR, you're going to have to pay the big bucks for those, because they're licensed designs. Good luck!! Hugs, Marji
22364 Often, when I see something I would like, I
go through
the process as if I were going to buy.
Then, I print out the sheet listing all
that I want, but I do not CLICK TO BUY. I
keep these lists in a file envelope and
wait a day or two. Nine times out of ten,I
have moved on by the next day with other
ideas. I also have a little song that
keeps running through my head. "Use
what you have...Use what you have..."
My days often end with my being happy at
how much I have saved. But the desire for
items that I truly want or need stay with
me for more than a day or two. These items
I buy.
1747 The quality of a lot of the freebies I DL
when I first started were so poor I almost
gave up the idea and sold my machine. Thank
goodness I didn't!
I'm still quite new and on a budget
too but I really liked and wanted some
applique designs from Smart Needle so I
bought them on a "buy 3 sets get one
free" offer. I don't regret it
for a minute. I had problems but they
responded quickly to my email with loads of
help and advice - even offering to
re-digitise the design if I couldn't
get it to stitch out to my satisfaction.
For that type of service I'm more than
happy to pay. I'm also a lot more
choosy about freebies, I finally realised
that I would have to stitch all day, every
day for at least the next 50+ years if I
was to use each design in my library!
724 I am kinda new too. I have bought a few designs, had a bad experience with the first one I ever bought, it turned me away from applique it was so awful. I just received a freebie applique and it came out wonderful so now I am looking at more applique's in fact I have bought a couple sets that were on sale recently. so far the most I have spent on a set is $5. which I considered not bad. I am on a couple of different sites as a member and receive designs weekly. I also joined them while they were on sale too. I have seen designs that were $25 or more but can not spend that much even if the design is beautiful. Just not in my budget, I always buy everything on sale, I never pay full price for anything, I say I am cheap but others say no you are frugal. LOL
by by meganne 21 Jun 2009
WOW! $5 for a whole set, I wouldn't
digitise even ONE design for so little!!!
If I was charging for them that is.
LOL!!!
hnr, M
PS. I've bought design set for $1.00 a
set but only from reputable digitisers.
5699 Some sites, I just drool and hope they go on sale. If they only realized they could sell many more if they priced them more reasonably. A stitch out is most important. Sometimes I never go babk to a site if I had a bad experience. Should we tell the site or just avoid them? I use Art format, and some times it gets changed for the worse in the conversion. I love when I see the site offers Art format. I wish Embroidery Library would update their art format. I think we are all guilty of buying the expensive cards whem we bought our first machines, but I was dumb and I didn't even have internet. I admit I pay too much for licensed designs and then I have buyers remorse!!!!
18166 Bev If it's a design I really want & I don't want to spend that mucfh money, then I usually write it down (keep a list) & when they go on sale, buy then. Sooner or later everything goes on sale. *
53764 When I first started to embroider I could
not afford the cards to put in the Janome
9000. I had a few and just lost interest
rather than pay for the cards. I got
another machine a Singer that would let me
download from the computer so I was
interested again. I did not like that
machine so I got a Janome 9700 where I can
download to an SD card and put it in my
machine. I went crazy collecting all the
free designs. These gals are telling you
right about some designs not being worth
having them for free. I now pay for what I
want and am so much more choosy in which
designs to 'have'. I could never
stitch them all out in a lifetime either
but I like having them. Lots of choices
when I want a design. I look for
everything on sale. For adorable applique,
I could not wait for Wednesday..adorable
applique day. I would buy the .07 designs
and have to add to them to make up the
$5.00 minimum. I was running out of the
designs I wanted so I decided not to
purchase the .07 designs every week and
save some of those designs to make up the
$5 minimum another week. I just love them
all. The cuties are just wonderful and I
have learned a lot from them by being on
this site. They won't steer us
wrong.
Mona
857 Oh, a word of advice for new embroiderers.
It is of great help to have a program that
will show you a VIRTUAL STITCHOUT of
designs before you actually stitch them.
Doing this will show you how the design
will proceed, whether it has underlay and
depth, where there are (unnecessary) jump
stitches and usually it will show you if
there are any thin spots where stitches are
missing or aren't dense enough.
It can save a lot of heartache, but if you
still want to risk using a design you
should ALWAYS do a test stitch first before
ruining your valuable project.
hugs n roses, Meganne
44628 Thank you for your input. What made me ask
the question was a set of butterflys I
liked for $55.00. I know I can get alot of
designs for that amt of money. I decided in
the end I didnt need them that bad. I
always watch for the sales , the buy one
get one free etc. And I used to download
all the freebies, now I am more
selective,There was so much i had that I
know I will never use.
Thanks!
4873 Hello,
It is going to depend on whether I want or
need the set and who digitized it. If it
is a Dakota set or a Disney card, I know
that I am going to pay more those sets than
I would for a set or design from an
individual digitizer. One way to get the
really nice sets you "want" from
the internet is to sign up for the
site's newsletter and watch for sales.
That is what I do for the "want"
sets. But, I try to check out their work
before buying an expensive set. Often the
digitizer will put out freebies to sample,
I download it and sample their work and if
I feel confident their work is good then I
don't feel bad about paying more for a
set if I really "need" it for a
project. But, the bottom line is this, it
is up to how much you can afford.
2971 Hi Bev,
When considering the price I would pay, I
keep in mind the quality, size, and type.
(FSL, Filled, xstitch, etc.) I have paid as
much as ninety dollars for a set of quilt
blocks. It contained five sizes of twenty
two designs. The flowers in these designs
look real, so I felt it was worth it. The
quilt was a wedding gift for my daughter so
I also considered the occassion. My
suggestion would be to try for the best
quality your budget will allow. It
doesn't matter how many designs you
have if they do not stitch out well. Happy
Stitching ~ Marjorie ***
by ksgram1 21 Jun 2009
P.S. ~ Licensed designs are always higher in price. Be sure to ALWAYS buy legal designs. The penalty for buying one illegal one can be as high as $30,000. That is definately too high a price to pay.
2276
YOU ALWAYS HAVE GOOD ADVISE.