Hello is there anyone out there? I really need to know about auto digitizing.

Hi, you might want to look at AnnTheGran's site she has a great cross stitch that is auto. You get a free trial. Gives you a chance to try before you buy. It is very easy and a good place to start. Happy New year!

If you are interested in digitizing. You might want to go ahead and learn manual digitizing. It is a little more work but well worth the effort. Most software has a good tutorial. There are also lots of helps, tutorials, and lessons available. Do a search. You will be suprised what you can find. Merry Christmas and happy sewing. Freida A

From what you said in your comment to Cutiepie, bkd, I think you might be better off getting a membership to this site, and maybe a couple more I can recommend. You get lots of different designs to sew, instead of just the few on an embroidery card that costs lots more. If you are new to embroidery, maybe just sew out lots of designs for a while, decide if you like it, and what you want to do with the embroidery. I thought I wanted to start a small business embroidering T-shirts, but after about 10 T-shirt disasters, I decided I HATE T-shirts! Lucky I didn't invest in hundreds of shirts. Sew for a while, use a site like this to get hundreds of designs, then decide if you want to get into doing your own designs. It's not really terribly hard, but it does require work, a lot of planning goes into designs, that's why the artist wants to be paid for her/his work. Bernina is a good machine, you should have fun with it, but please, buy the subscription rather than just the embroidery cards, it's a way better use of your money. Have fun, and let us know how you're doing! Merry Christmas!

Cutiepie is right. I have Janome Digitizer Pro, which has an auto-digitize feature, but it's not as easy as it sounds. Your artwork has to be perfect, which requires time for cleanup. Then you have to decide on fill and detail stitches, and that's a guess, stab in the dark. If you let the program do it, remember it is a stupid machine, the stitch types are very random. Jump stitches like you wouldn't believe, way too many stitches. On a very very simple cartoon-like design I have used my auto feature but have put in my parameters, then when the program is finished digitizing I take over and tweak it. Sometimes it's faster than punching manually, sometimes not. Manual punching is not that difficult, if you take the time to learn your program, there is certainly a learning curve, but it's way more satisfying. Auto digitizing just isn't the 'miracle' it's cracked up to be. Do you have a digitizing program? If so, what is it, tell us more.

What would you like to know about auto digitizing? I have worked with auto-punch and also with manual-punch software ("punching" is another common term for digitizing), so I can probably give you some information, if I know what you want to know about. I will tell you that I am less than impressed with most of the auto-punch designs I have seen. They tend to have illogical jumps and lots of excessive stitches (bulk that you really don't need).

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by bkd147 23 Dec 2007

I am new to embroidery and was told to get auto digitizing. I have a Berinia 630 sewing and embroidery machine. I don'et have much money to spend on software. From what I told I think maybe I should just stick to sewing and buy the letters and designs I want.

by shirlener88 26 Mar 2008

thank you!