I could make an outline (like the logo shown above) but no multi-color creations. To my surprise, what I thought was the equivalent for the babylock, CustomWorks, was not able to. With PE-design, I remember being able to draw shapes and true-type fonts and have them fully embroidered. So actually, the software that I found to install on the machine was not digitizing software per se. I found a computer that ran windows to install the software on, found a hoop to embroider with and went about digitizing their logo of a Viking king. Here there are 2 embroidery machines, which were sitting in the corner collecting dust, so they asked me to revive them. Now, many years later, I have found myself in the northern-most fablab, in Lyngen, Norway. Even with all this adversity, we managed to make this rather nice 404 for the Picnic conference’s website:
The designs were stored on a memory card with a branded memory card reader and thus transferred to the machine.
It only ran on Windows, it was full of bugs and didn’t give a lot of control. PES, which apparently works on both Brother machines and Babylocks. We also had to buy some 700euro software to go with it so that we could have the programmable embroidery machine embroider what we wanted, I think it was called PE-Design. Dear open hardware people: please read this and then do something about on behalf of grandmothers all over the world.Ī long time ago, Willem Velthoven and I went to one of the funniest sewing machine stores in Amsterdam zuid to buy a digital embroidery machine (you might know it: the one with all their merchandise in the window).
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