Does anyone else have problems with the thread colors on designs from Embroidery Library? I'm so frustrated! My swans are purple and green!! Don't know if I'll order from them anyomore.

Like many fellow Cuties I use my own judgement with colours. I do have to say that Embroidery Library produces some excellent quality designs, and a swan going purple and green would not put me off buying
Just noticed this posting was ages ago... so the problem has probably been solved

Always print off their color chart because the colors in the machine will not be the same

For me it is an important part of the pleasure and my creation to choose myself among the threads that i own, to choose those which are the most appropriate to the design, to the cloth on which I make the embroidery and the person for whom the embroidery is made so I have never trouble with the indications of colours when I buy a design from emblibrary or anywhere else

Not normally. But I believe it has more to do with the color selection group in your software vs the color brand that is used by the company.

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by sandy38001 04 Mar 2009

thanks, *4u

I never have alol the thread colors anyway & live to far away to run to the shop so I just decide what colors I want to use & go from there. embird allows me to change to a color so I will do that & look at a 3d pic off design n my chosen colors to give me an idea of what it will look like but sometimes I change n mid-stream. LOL Excellent question for u to ask *4U

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by sandy38001 04 Mar 2009

Thank you for your answer. *4u

Ah, the old thread color problem!! First, never believe your sewing machine on colors. They are all sneaky liars, even the best of them, hee hee hee. I have a Janome machine, Janome software, do my own digitizing, digitize with RA colors that I actually have, and when the design goes to the machine, which is also set to RA colors, they are STILL different!! So please, don't judge the digitizer badly because colors don't come out right. If the digitizing itself is bad, that's another story altogether, but Embroidery Library has great digitizing. I think this is always going to be a problem for some people, because there are so many thread brands, so many different file extensions, so many different machines. I have software I can view the design in, so I keep the design open and the color changes right on the laptop by the machine when I'm sewing out a design. Failing that, I would print out the color chart and a photo of the design, and pick my own colors to match. Does your machine not show you which color is sewing? My Janome shows a little picture of the part that is sewing in each particular color. Best of luck to you, and do enjoy your purple & green swans, they sound like peacocks! Dare to be different!! Hee hee hee, Marji

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by sandy38001 04 Mar 2009

Thanks, maybe when I have more experience I'll be able to cope better. *4u

You have some good answers. I did find this site to help me with thread conversion and it is free. http://www.embdb.com/index.php

This is so FUNNY >>>> I am sorry to say before I knew not to pay any attention to MY machines colors >> I have a GREEN monkey on the front of my shirt >>> LOL >>> Sorry it had to happen to you too >>>> SORRY ... BUT it is funny LOL

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by sandy38001 04 Mar 2009

You are tooooo funny! I didn't actually
stitch out the green swans. Bet your green monkey is cute. LOL ***

by jrob 07 Mar 2009

oh, please, please post him in projects! That is so funny I almost lost my breath. I was wondering what color he will be when he is "ripe". hahahaha

I love the embroidery library site and have quite a few designs that I stitched from their site. I have a pfaff 2170 with 4D Pro and can switch colors. What I do is print the color sheet that goes with it and follow that. Those are really the true colors. With the pfaff vip format it has different colors on my sewing machine. I collect all the color sheets and put them in a notebook so I can refer back to them. Their designs stitch out beautiful and I trust their site.

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by sandy38001 04 Mar 2009

Thanks, I love their designs too, just have problems with the colors. I have an Ellageo Pes format. *4u

Wow, reading these comments I wonder if I must be color blind because I have had so little trouble. Of course there have been a few but it was my machine "converting" their colors. I just looked at the color picture and chose a thread from my collection. I didn't know about thread conversation sites so I am glad you asked this question. I love emblibrary and hope you give them another try.

If you go to the page where your order is and select your ***design, at the top of the design you will see blue writing, select the "printable without images" it will give you a text file, select everything there, copy and paste it into Microsoft WORDPAD & save as a text file, with the same name as the design, but of course it should end in .txt.

If you have Embird, it is supposed to be able to read these text files and associate the correct colours???!!!

Otherwise, you can just print out your little text file and look up the appropriate colours in the THREAD EXCHANGE, which you will also see in blue writing when you open the design (as above***)

This is what I do because I use RA, not Madeira.

Of course, when you start rounding up your colours you may find you don't like their original choices and end up choosing your own colours anyway.
Hope this helps, hugs n roses, M

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by sandy38001 04 Mar 2009

Thank you for these directions, I'll give it a try right now. I don't have Embird. I do use some Maderia threads and just ordered some Metro thread so don't know how they will exchange. ***

by meganne 07 Mar 2009

Metro has a free Threadbox exchange program you can download, might be worth looking at...
http://www.metroem.net/
hugs n roses, M

I have a desktop & a laptop & both change the colours different to each other. This happens on most sites. so I always save a copy of the jpeg picture & the colour charts, (the charts I save in 'Notepad' for Embro Library). I've also have a copy of Mederia & Robinson Antons Charts. I also have a few conversion Charts, I always get my cottons out first as I sometimes change the colours & with them besides each other u can see if they work together. Hope this helps, Goodluck

Yes I have also found the colors to be bad and not correct. I also download their color chart and I have a conversion chart. I got the chart by typing in the name of the thread they use which is usually maderia I think and I use Robibson Anton this does help. There are a lot of various conversion charts to get free of the net so just look out for the one with the thread you use
I always get the threads out before I start to look at them and change if I think it will be better with some other color. Hope this helps. Good Luck

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by sandy38001 04 Mar 2009

thank you, I get the threads out too, that's when I realized I didn't want that color swan. *4u

All my colors from Cindes are very weird! It is because I have to chance formats from what she uses. It makes my computer print out strange colors and not what is on her color chart. I would think your problem might be along the same lines. Of course I could be wrong but that is the only place that my son set up my computer to change formats for me & it only happens on her site. Linda

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by sandy38001 03 Mar 2009

I downloaded the designs in PES format but they are still weird! I guess the best thing is print out the design and choose the colors I like. *4u

thanks for all the advice. I'll see what works for me. *4all

Yes, I have had blue chickens in the past. I'm sure that they are a new variety just for the pes embroidery people. So you have had good advice. 1. Print the sheet that tells you the color. 2. Decide if YOU like or or it needs a little adjustment. 3. Have fun and celebrate the fowl that are strange colors. Heck, they located a pink dolphin today, What can I say. Nature is stange.

You can't always go by what your machine will tell you to use. At emblibrary you can you can download the design info that will give you area to be stitched and color they suggest of course final selection is your. I have a lot of emblibrary designs and don't have problems.

I've had problems, so I just started using whatever I want.

I never dl color charts. I always use whatever I want I have the viking 4D program and it shows me all color changes so I just pick the colors I like not what they say I have to use guess it's part of the creative in me LOL *4U

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by pennifold 07 Mar 2009

Me too!!!!! Isn't it a great programme the 4D?

I like to use my own flair!!!

Love Chris

by marymilf41 06 Nov 2009

i think my choice of colors is better sometimes then theres mary

I always ´print out their colour chart of each design I sew from them. never had problems so far. on the machine the colours look completely different so I just follow the chart. *

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by sandy38001 03 Mar 2009

thanks, *

Sandy, something that you may have to realize - that alot of design colors will change - that is why the designers provide a color chart - for the price - it is still worth fixing the colors as you would want them to be - not what you view - I always change colors and use what I like more often than what I see, anyway. Some times you can just look at the picture and see what needs to be changed, other times it takes alot of work to figure out those color changes. Good luck!

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by sandy38001 03 Mar 2009

Thanks, everyone. Guess I freaked out when I saw the colors. I'll work on seeing if I can change them to look right. * 4 all

I asked this same very question a while back. The key is to download the color chart page into the same directory that the design is....be sure to name it the same name as the design but, it will have a txt extension instead of pes or whatever. It works like a charm! Their designs sew out beautifully. Try it.... hope this makes sense!!!!

I had the same problem. So I used my 4D extra to changed the thread color before I started embroider

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by sandy38001 03 Mar 2009

what is a 4D extra?

by ssarner 03 Mar 2009

4D Extra is auto digitizing software. I got mine when I brought my Pfaff 2170.