Good Morning everyone, I'm going to show my stupidty this morning...what is an embroidery card? I know what a CD is, and a USB stick..but is a card like a floppy disk? Boy I feel dumb LOL

Well Hello Dolly... The one thing about embroidery cards is that you may be able to buy (cheap) cards full of designs that someone else may no longer want and as long as you have a "Multi-card Reader" that you can read from your computer, you can open the designs within your design software and save them to a design format your machine can use. Very desirable if the card contains designs you may not otherwise have access to, like some of the Disney designs created for Brother machines. Hope this info is clear to you. roses, M

Thank You All! I now know what a card is and that I can not use it with my machine. I have a bernina that takes a usb stick, or the software, Designer V5, which is in the computer will read a CD. Flowers for all, and thank you again for the information!

good evening dolly, here is a flower for you.

Seem to me you got your answer here already. both of my machines take a card . I have 2 blank cards which I can write over and over I guess until I damage something putting in out taking out. But have used the same 2 for 5 or 6 years now so I guess they last forever!!! thank goodness. What one does your machine use????Warm hugs and flower to you

It isn't a stupid question. I didn't know anything about embroidery before, until last December that my dear husband gave me a brother SE270D for Christmas and I started to learn about it. My machine has that kind of card. Brother sales some with designs on it (like Disney) and has a blank one. Mine is the Ped Basic and you can download designs to it and then put into the machine and embroider it. Flower and XoXo

good morning, Here is a picture to show you what they look like. Cards can either be rewrite or write protected, depending on what is on them. You wouldn't want to over a card with $100 worth of designs on it so it is write protected. Rewrite cards are used with the writer box to transfer designs to your sewing machine. Here's the link http://www.brother-usa.com/HomeSe...

No dumb question, there aren't any! When embroidery machine came on the market they all had there own storage devices. You could only buy embroideries on cards suitable for your own machine. I still have a box full of those.I bought a Brother 1993 and all you could use were their read-only cards. Later they had cards you could write embroideries to. And even now the cheaper or rather less expensive machines still use them, like the Brother 190D, the Iris by Husqvarna , to name just two I own. It's only the newest models that have USB sticks. Flower for you.

I agree with all the ladies... no such thing as a "dumb question". That's how we learn, grow, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, teach others.

Dolly No quest. is dumb or stupid when you do not know the answer & the only way we learn is to ask. I'm new here too & these cuties r the best of the bunch. they'll help & only laugh with U not at U. *4U

Hello Dolly, I use the Ped Basic which is a device which plugs into your usb port and then you insert the embroidery card into the slot to copy your designs onto the card from your computer or cd. Then I take the card out and insert it into the machine and there are the designs that I chose to use. Really amazing thing, which I have just learned to use myself. So Nooooo dumb ?'s here. Here I will pass along a flower to you to add to your collection.

Looks like you got your answer. My machine will use a card as well as a USB stick. I burn all of my designs onto CD's and transfer to a USB stick when I want to embroider. Not a stupid question at all. *4U

You got 2 very good answers. Each company just has a different device to transfer thoses designs to the sewing machine. Even within the same company the models may differ in what device is used. By the way NOT A DUMB question. Machine embroidery seems to have acquired a language of its own these days!

An embroidery card works about the same. For me, I use "The Ultimate Box" by Vikant (AWESOME!!!) and it has a little card that is about 2"x2" that looks 'somewhat' like the old 3x5 floppys. You pop it into the box and then plug the box into a usb in your comp and you can dowload designs into the card, then put the card into your sewing machine somewhat the same way as you do your USB stick.... did that help or confuse your more?! *4U

It's a small storage device, similar to a card you stick into a digital camera, PDA, or GPS system. Some machines will only take a card (similar to floppy, but holds a lot more megs) instead of hooking up directly to a computer (wired or wireless) or a USB thumb drive/stick. Also, some dealers sell designs on cards specifically for your machine (brother, janome, etc.)