About how many free designs you think you download every week?,,,,just wondering, LOL. I dl about 100-125....

I download very few free ones anymore. I pick and chose only the ones I think I might use. I have so many designs bought, and free ones I would have to live a thousand years to stitch them all. Even the free Alpha's, I have so many and I don't know if I have used any of them. If I miss a few, that's okay just move on to something else. I don't worry about it.

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by mariahail 27 Apr 2011

well..I wish you could live 1000,s of years and used all your designs****

hehehe; seems like a million.

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I have got really picky and realised that I will never use the ones I have. A while ago I deleted masses off my computer. I now DL 4/ 5 a week and buy when I see something I cannot live without.

I am addicted, Ican not stop but Ido not download everything in one year since I started I have close to 10,000. I bought some too.When I need some thing I have it is fun :))

I'm addicted. Can't help it. And seems that I almost never have one that I really like to do a certain project. But I'm probably close to you in the number. I have to say that there are times when I don't keep one that I've downloaded.

Like many others, I am much pickier than I used to be. I do the "cute" family alphabets and yorkio's freebie every day - never know when one may come in handy. I see something somewhere I really like (on a site or DBC) I will pick it up too. I have memberships to a couple of sites so I get those designs as they are released. And I buy from some favorite sites too (especially when there is a sale). I am guessing I add 25-50 designs a week to my collection.

Like many others, I am much pickier than I used to be. I do the "cute" family alphabets and yorkio's freebie every day - never know when one may come in handy. I see something somewhere I really like (on a site or DBC) I will pick it up too. I have memberships to a couple of sites so I get those designs as they are released. And I buy from some favorite sites too (especially when there is a sale). I am guessing I add 25-50 designs a week to my collection.

I collect very few. Unless it is something I know I will use, I usually bypass on the freebies. I have so many designs now and I end up buying some every month usually from emblibrary. I need to go through all my designs and start deleting the ones I know will never get used. Hugs, Mary

Hi Maria,
I don't download any freebies, not a single one. but I estimate that around 30,000 freebies have been downloaded from my site. and I only have a little site and I don't get much traffic. I find it very interesting when I see some people downloading every single freebie and others that only download one or two or three. I know which ones are most likely to get stitched out. But I guess some people like collecting things. I can't imagine much use for thousands of stamps either but lots of people collect them.
Alice.

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by bevintex 26 Apr 2011

stamps have a monetary value and can increase in price.

by fannyfurkin 26 Apr 2011

That is true Bev, I just could not think of another example. But I do know people collect all sorts of things.

by mariahail 27 Apr 2011

yes, you are right stamps can really increase their value.

by mariahail 27 Apr 2011

yes, you are right stamps can really increase their value.

Hi Maria, I used to collect a lot of free designs at the beginning. But I have become selective now. Still trying to organise my files and removing lots that I know I won't use. Also did not put the site names to designs, which I am also trying to sort out. (this I have been doing when I have my machines going, and not digitising my own designs.)
So I don't collect so many at the moment. Hugs Yvonne

When I first found out you could get free designs I went nuts downloading everything.....Now I'm very selective on what I download....I still way behind on organizing....I keep saying I will not start another alphabet and I hope I can stick to that, time will tell.

When i first started everything .Now only what i think i will use and i am trying to get oranized boy thats hard.A year ago Shirlene gave me some tips on files and i am trying but boy its hard on my old head so maybe 100 or less a week !! carolyn

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by bevintex 25 Apr 2011

You may be the one who actually embroiders what she collects. I don't think I've seen anyone who accomplishes as much as you do. I always like to see what you are turning out next
Bev

125 a week x 4= 500 a month- 500 a month x 12= 6000-6000 a year divided by 365 days in a year = 16 a day plus 40 extra-Now you're adding to that the ones you purchase.Your time. How long do you take to embroider a design? 10 minutes? usually longer if you have lots of color changes,disruptions,etc. How many years have you been collecting 3-4 maybe more. Wow, thats a lot of embroidering a day.Just another way of looking at it. If I never buy another design or collect a freebie I will have enough to last me forever. But i always want the new one. I'm not addressing this answer to any one person, just Cuties in general.
Bev

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by faerynutt 26 Apr 2011

I've been collecting designs since 1997 back when I had to save them on hundreds of floppies. A few years ago I saved them to CD's.

by airyfairy 27 Apr 2011

Well done for the maths Bev - love it!!

by bevintex 27 Apr 2011

Thanks, the question gave me a lot to think about.
Bev

Not nearly as many as I used to. I collect Fonts on cuties and sister sites if it is some I'll use... Lately it has been 3 a day which = 21 a week... but I'm finished with two of them.
I need to go through my designs and delete what I will probably never use or put them in a different folder.
I buy a lot from Emb. Lib.
I get really tired of looking for the hidden ones in Oreg.Ptchwks. I've found a few.
so I suppose I download about 20 - 30 a week and that is really slowed down from a while back!
MJDG

Free designs... probably 3-5 a week.
Subscriptions and Clubs with paid memberships plus shopping the occasional sale counts for 30-50 a week.
Suddenly, I am not feeling as addicted as I thought I was. Thanks, ladies.

Maybe aout 20 to 25 a week if that.

I use to take all that I could get. Sometimes I was getting and organizing sveal hundred a week. Now I seldom download a frebie. It is a great way to build up your library when new and it exposes you to so many digitizers.

I download freebees while my machine is stitching away. I download a lot of designs per week. Some days I only download 5 or 6, but on other days I may download 50. And that's being picky, I download only the ones I know I will use someday :) Sometimes you just find a mother load of beautiful designs, this week I hit the jackpot At OPW with their Easter Hunt, there were a lot of new beautiful freebees they must have loaded for the hunt. I can't resist nice ITH, FSL or Bullion Rose designs.

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by mariahail 25 Apr 2011

those are some of my favorites and roosters also***

by faerynutt 25 Apr 2011

Aljay's & Patti's Creative Studio are two of my favorites. They also have a lot of nice samples to download.

I can't imagine why you would want to download this many free designs. Why not spend the time stitching some of those you already have.

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by mariahail 25 Apr 2011

addiction...

It varies, a little more picky than i used to be.

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by mariahail 25 Apr 2011

me too, I used to download anything, now I am a little picky too...LOL ****

Out of those 100-125 how many would you say you actually use?
Bev

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by mariahail 25 Apr 2011

lots of them!!!! and you never know what you may need...****

by bevintex 25 Apr 2011

I just go into my folder of designs and search around, there is so much stuff there I've forgotten about. it seems almost new to me. I can find some good stuff there.
Bev

Hardly any. It has to be something that really grabs my attention. I would say less than 25. I usually grab the fsl or in the hoop and there aren't really too many of those. When i was new to embroidery i would download every freebie i saw then i realized i did not even use them. i am well supplied if the need for a design ever comes up.
Bev

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by mariahail 25 Apr 2011

yes, we al change with time and become a little more picky***

I probably do somewhere between 50-100 depending on what I find. Others here mention a site and I go and see if there is something I might like. I also have a couple of sites from a while ago that I didn't have time to go through that I have in favorites so I can go back later.

Usually check here on Cute (and the Sister websites) then only the websites I trust and ones I'm collecting continued alpha's at.
Have a great day !
Hugs

Not as many as I used to when I began. I only download what I really am likely to use! If I never download another one, I'll still have plenty to keep me busy for years.

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by bevintex 25 Apr 2011

the same for me
bev

I try to be choosy now but when I don't dl one later I wish I had. I probably do 50 or so a week.

7, the letters on CuteAlphabets.