Digitizers: Do you ever digitize anything just for fun?

By Robert Young on Dec. 13, 2011
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Do you ever digitize anything just because you would like to? Do you have embroidered items that you have done around your home or office just because you wanted them? Framed pieces maybe or tablecloths or pillows or whatever? Is digitizing and embroidery a visible part of your life or is it just the career or job you do?

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Submitted by Lindsay on Fri, 02/07/2020 - 22:31

Hi,
I have a new passion for embroidery and I'd like to know if this digitizing service would be fine for me, do you know if I need a special machine, or any brand could do the job after I receive the file?
https://bit.ly/digitizing1hr
Thank you so much for your help, I'm trying to learn from those who know :)
Maybe I should open a new thread, don't know...please tell me

Submitted by drdoct on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 00:53

A lot of times I'll see something and try to replicate it. Everywhere I go I'm looking at people's embroidery to get ideas and to see how I rank. I only embroider what I need for business or our gifts for the most part. When I'm having problems I'll embroider something just for a test but that's about it. My kids are lucky to have embroidered book bags. When I'm feeling naughty I'll digitize the nike swoosh, but then the guilt takes over and I delete it. ;-)

No Nike lawyers, I'm just making a funny.

Submitted by inkman996 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 08:55

I am not a digitizer atleast commercially but I can digitize with the best of them. Being the production manager I am more involved with screen printing art and other basic business responsibilities but when I get time I love to sit down and hone my skills. I like trying to digitize things that need texture like birds and animals, something a simple flat step satin fill does not do justice. I have a lot of articles i have experimented on especially with puff. It is fun.

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Submitted by Robert Young on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 09:41

inkman996 wrote:
I like trying to digitize things that need texture like birds and animals, something a simple flat step satin fill does not do justice. I have a lot of articles i have experimented on especially with puff. It is fun.

That is Great! Without schools to teach this is a perfect way to experiment and learn. Personally I would never hire a digitizer who did NOT do what you just outlined.

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Submitted by Keltecemb on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 21:39

powerstitch wrote:
We made this design a few years ago to give away to embroidery companies as a freebie...I still feel its a nice design and never boring for christmas

Please send this design to us. I just uploaded you a vector job.

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Submitted by Robert Young on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 09:44

embrotrend wrote:
hi dear sir, i would like to do embroidery digitizing for you,

kindly send your image to microsharpdesigns@gmail.com

microsharp123@gmail.com, embrotrend@gmail.com

thanks eswaramoorthy

AH, but you did not answer the question of the thread.... do you digitize just for fun? for your own life? For example look at this image... see the 1 dollar bill inserted in lower right of face for a sense of scale. 13 pcs but all done on a small machine and just framed separately to give the scale.

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Submitted by inkman996 on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 10:23

Robert Young wrote:
AH, but you did not answer the question of the thread.... do you digitize just for fun? for your own life? For example look at this image... see the 1 dollar bill inserted in lower right of face for a sense of scale. 13 pcs but all done on a small machine and just framed separately to give the scale.

Fantastic job wow!

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Submitted by minimalist on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 11:12

I like to emulate cool stuff I see in movies or lego star wars/indiana jones things for my kids. I'm working on the Serenity firefly ship logo but haven't finished it yet. Blue Sun took no time at all. I did the 20th century motor company on a hat for myself which was out of the 2nd atlas shrugged movie. When I get some real time to spend I'm going to do some scrapbook covers for the wife in the Roy Lichtenstein pop art style.

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Submitted by Robert Young on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 13:01

minimalist wrote:
I did the 20th century motor company on a hat for myself which was out of the 2nd atlas shrugged movie. When I get some real time to spend I'm going to do some scrapbook covers for the wife in the Roy Lichtenstein pop art style.

Have you read the book? (Atlas Shrugged) I have done a series of famous buildings in embroidery and a couple of them are imaginary from one of Rand's other books, The Fountainhead... So I have a 5 foot tall Chrysler Building and then also my mind's view of one of Howard Roark's buildings also 5ft tall...

I bet the pop art would be awesome... tiring though if you do it in dots.. yikes.

I have wanted to do some mosaics in thread of pics I took in Rome... but haven't the patience anymore to do all those small squares. lol

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Submitted by minimalist on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 12:28

Robert,

I've read them all. Rand is rather long winded and I get the point way before she gets to it. If you do Courtland without Roark's exact design, it'll get destroyed.:)

I'm a mid century architecture fan. By far the best IMO is John Lautner's projects. He studied under Frank Lloyd Wright but got the math right on the difficult projects. Wright's Falling Water has had structural problems since the house was finished.

Yeah, the dots would be time consuming but not all of his stuff was the dot comic. The foundation might come after me for emulating his work :rolleyes: even though some of his work emulated copyrighted disney stuff. Ironic that the foundation threatens people with infringement just downloading a picture for reference.

Submitted by LinenLvr on Tue, 09/24/2013 - 20:12

Wow, Robert that is amazing, fantastic work! So are you embroidering on stabilizer or something else to size then adhering it to your wooden model and is it for someone special?

Would love to see more of what you come up with especially the interior bits and bobs. Great job!

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Submitted by Robert Young on Fri, 09/27/2013 - 13:00

Thanks LinenLvr! This is the project that our blog will be formed around. Once it is up and a few posts I will share the link.

Just sewing on cut away pellon. Actually it is a marketing piece... A Victorian house.. back when craftsmanship mattered and was expected... when Honesty was the norm... 2X4s were actually 2 X 4... not engineered lumber like today.. etc. Figured this and a couple of large pieces would be all I would need as a small booth at shows.

Also am hoping to market the individual pieces that are created... rugs, curtains, etc.. to dollhouse fans. Niche marketing.

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Submitted by Robert Young on Fri, 04/28/2017 - 12:18

Any new projects in 2017 yet? I am in the process of finishing a 7.25 foot wide by 2.5 foot tall panel for a client's tradeshow booth backdrop. Over a million stitches in total but the left side and right side of the three panel piece are the same design, so just flipped. Will send pics when complete.

Tried to get a job for a Church but they hated my pricing. Shame, was a medieval icon that would have been beautiful in thread.

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Submitted by Robert Young on Tue, 08/01/2017 - 13:20

Anything new yet to fill the Summer slowdown?

I have been working on large scale items... 26 plus inches wide or more. (just to knock out most competitors and hopefully knock the socks off potential new clients) go big or go home I guess is the mantra

I have a frog gate and a BaoBob tree as well as a mosaic icon in the works. sure beats watching TV shows that suck your time away. JMO

Surely you guys/gals have projects for fun in the works?

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Submitted by digidana on Wed, 08/02/2017 - 18:54

summer slowdown? is that a thing?? :confused: i slowed down a little in january i think. and july 4th week was slow, but i've been really busy....thankfully. nothing for fun. there's barely enough time to keep up. especially the last couple of months.

love to see the projects when you get them done!

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Submitted by Robert Young on Thu, 08/31/2017 - 15:18

digidana wrote:
nothing for fun. there's barely enough time to keep up. especially the last couple of months.

that really kinda bothers me. I mean you are one of the best and you are only just doing daily work? which 10 years from now you will have NO memory of. just normal orders.

We are up to nearly 500,000 designs.... but my favorites are the 245 that are framed.... less than a quarter of one percent! but I still have them.. and have sold lots of copies of them.

Not complaining... but it is SO nice to be able to make a living off of something you actually have FUN doing.

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Submitted by Robert Young on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 09:40

digidana wrote:
never done one just for fun, but i like love doing "1 color" designs, but give them character using different stitch types and direction. i just did a bunch of military designs, and one golf one that way. See, my WORK is fun! ;)

YEAH... call me when AUTO digitizing can do what you just showed!!

Yet how many people are suckered in at trade shows.... digitizing is EASY.. hey , do you have a spare bedroom? GUESS WHAT!! you can make a FORTUNE!! all you have to do is buy this wonderful singlehead and this amazing digitizing software. who needs a lottery ticket?!

yep. 3 months later is all dusty and they are stuck trying to sell it. I know this not the truth for everyone, but I would LOVE to see a canvas that actually showed the numbers..... a survey.

How often do you use your machine? How often do you digitize? How much money have you made each month since the purchase? etc.

So are they digitizing just for fun? (the point of this thread) or are they just people who have been taken advantage of (or just not that smart) ?

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Submitted by digidana on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 10:59

just for giggles, i tried the same design as an auto-digitizing. below are the results. the auto digitizing is to the right. it would be thread-break city to try to stitch:

i'm sure a lot of people buy digitizing software thinking it'll be easy, but quickly learn that there is much more to it if you want a file that looks and stitches great.

when my mother was part of the business (she was the embroiderer and i was the digitizer up until 2005), we had bought a second digitizing system. the plan was that she was going to learn in her spare time. problem was that spare time was so few and far between that i would start to teach her and by our next 'spare time' lesson she had forgotten everything i taught her. that was about $8000 in software collecting dust.

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Submitted by Robert Young on Thu, 09/21/2017 - 10:54

digidana wrote:
just for giggles, i tried the same design as an auto-digitizing. below are the results. the auto digitizing is to the right.

WOW, they HAVE come a long way! that image on the right is AMAZING! maybe I should contact a software company and start hawking their wares at tradeshows.

Why wouldn't someone buy something that can produce such quality?! Long term digitizers need to finally be worried!

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Submitted by digidana on Thu, 09/21/2017 - 18:36

i almost choked on the sarcasm. hahaha with this point-and-click software, i can put out 200 designs per day. maybe i'll lower my prices to $10/design. ;)

THAT could happen. i'd put myself out to pasture before i used a point-and-click anything. i don't even use keyboard lettering for most things. i should change my username to 'control freak'

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Submitted by Robert Young on Mon, 09/25/2017 - 14:58

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Submitted by Robert Young on Mon, 09/25/2017 - 15:05

see, when I started this thread:

do you ever digitize anything just for fun

I was kinda thinking about embroidery digitizing.... NOT financial fraud , cc, banking, etc numerical digitizing. sorry if that was not clear.

That being said.... how about this pc?

the glasses on the bottom give you a sense of scale

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Submitted by digidana on Mon, 09/25/2017 - 15:53

wow, gorgeous robert! that DOES look like fun!

with the previous post from migdigitizing.com...i didn't get a warning....but its really weird, that in THIS thread they're spamming their designs, but in another thread they apparently just discovered their own website?

"Hey right now i just visit a website that our providing custom digitized design in just $11 for left chest/ cap . I think they can go more cheaper for bulk quantity."

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Submitted by Robert Young on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 13:29

have you ever sewn over sequined material? I do not mean take out the sequins in the area to be embroidered but actually sewn through plastic sequins? layers of solvy? layers of saran wrap?

This is because the design is full of filigree satins to make it work. Otherwise, if just an oval or something I would cut the sequins out.

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