Happy New Year Dolly! I desperately need to weed out designs that I won't use!! It is a great idea!! Hugs, Laura

Don't ask, don't tell, as we say in the USA.

I'm not telling because it is not a contest. hehe But all of mine are categorized so I can find what I need in seconds to a few minutes. I gave up on most freebies long ago because I didn't like the quality. So good to know you found a lot of well digitized free designs . Enjoy each and every one of them. Tha's what is important.t

Like you when I first started I downloaded every free design. Some time back I weeded out all the badly digitized ones and ones I would never use. Hard to say how many I have as I save in 2 formats. I do keep the freebies separate from the one I purchase. Hugs

Hi Dolly. When we first begin machine embroidery we seem to download every available freebie regardless of quality or suitability. Then somewhere along the line we become more selective. I have reached the stage that I rarely save freebies. In the Autumn I spent some time pruning my collection of designs and like many others suspect that I have many designs that I wont ever use but that doesn't matter. Anyone with a subscription here on Cute can quickly add almost 6,000 designs to their collection. And to the question as to how many designs do I have, no idea at all and have better things to do such as embroidering than counting to find out

I don't want to know. Many are are fonts that are in multiple sizes, and single designs in multiple sizes so the number goes up exponentially.

Congratulations on sorting your designs. Not sure how many I have but like others very quickly stopped spending time downloading and concentrated more on embroidering

I have also saved EVERY snowman design from Charming Station, they are just too cute to ignore and any way one day 'I plan' to make a quilt with those snowmen!!!!

Not sure, and not sure I want to know.. Will get on top of my filing one day..

I think we nearly all start out that way until we stitch out a few shockers and realise they're not worth having. That's not to say that all freebies are poorly digitised, equally not all designs we 'purchase' are well digitised. I have edited, especially the mapping, of quite a few purchased designs and swear they are just not worth buying (cheaply), just to save myself from having to digitise them.

I rarely download freebies these days, (except for alphabets which seem to suck me right in, saying: "you need me, come get me"). LOL!

I do love Cute's Alphabets so, despite being able to digitise, I will often choose a Cute letter if I want a Monogram type design.

As for how many designs I have: Far too many to even think of trying to count them.
But I did work out that I have over 20,500 individual letters in alphabets, (only counting 26 letters for each set and not counting the alphabets letters I have digitised myself). WOW! That is really an eyeopener!!!

Time for a cleanup!

I wrote this post over four hours ago but we had a power blackout so all I could do was save it and shut down my laptop before its battery died.

We have had record temperatures here today reaching 41.7* C (108.86*F) in Sydney's western suburbs. I guess we should be grateful the power didn't fail until late afternoon after the sun had lost some of its heat.

I started embroidering in 1993 when all you could get were designs on (expensive) embroidery cards. So I was rather selective in what I bought and have about a dozen that can still be used in my Brother 190D.
I did not come to the internet until 2007 and Cute was the first site I went to and within a few weeks bought a membership. As I was well into digitising at that time I did not download many freebies. Or so I thought. But after all those years it all adds up.