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AnnTheGran - Lots of information, tons of free downloadable embroidery designs and cool programs like CrossStitch DLuxe and CatalogXpress. And of course the most complete embroidery related links page in Cyberspace!

 

Brother machine and software updates - Visit frequently to keep your Brother PE-Design software and your Brother embroidery machine up to date!

 

Babylock machine and software updates - keep your Palette software and Babylock machine up to date!

 

Cute sayings and quotes: if you need a cute text to embroider on a shirt, visit this place for inspiration.

 

Daintystitches - Miems Kemp. These South African digitizers don't need any introduction: so much creativity, so much talent! An incredible number of gorgeous designs, all reasonably priced. With lots of freebies too :)

 

Ebony Elegance - Beverly's website with free designs, including Buttonhole designs, and a lot of free Motif stitches, to be used in PE-Design/Palette versions 4 and up.

 

Embroidery Library - The Low Price Leader in Embroidery Designs. More than 22,000 high-quality stock designs for your embroidery machine. All designs $1-$7.99, sold individually and immediately downloadable. The Embroidery Library offers new designs each week! Plus lots of helpful videos and many project ideas.

 

Embird: started as a conversion and editing software, grown into a full digitizing suite.

 

Fontgarden: a great source for True Type Fonts and Dingbat Fonts, sorted on category and alphabet.

 

Font Thing: a freeware program to manage your True Type Fonts. Very useful !!

 

George the Digitizer: Don't know what I like best on George Pope's website: his cute free designs, or the helpful computer tips, or the recipes for the always-pressed-for-time embroidery digitizers. So take a look for yourself: this site is definitely worth checking out!

 

IntelliQuilter:  if you are a longarm quilter and considering to upgrade to a computerized system: well this is the place for you! IntelliQuilter is a very user friendly system that can be mounted on all brands of longarm machines/frames! Draw your patterns in the easy to use Pre-Design program, export to DXF and put that DXF directly in the IntelliQuilter system and ... let it sew the pattern: that easy!!

 

Joachim Riedel's page: Joachim creates incredibly useful programs to view, convert and organize embroidery files. His programs are "Postcardware" :-)

 

A French website - En Français: tips, tutorials and discussion Forum in French for Husqvarna and Embird (and Pre-Design too) http://www.broderie-aquitaine.com 

 

Poppin Bobbin.com - an active, up-to-date embroidery news website with a personal approach! Lots of useful links.

 

Pre-Design group at Yahoo: discussion list for Pre-Design (Studio) owners (and people who think of buying this must-have vector drawing program for embroiderers and longarm quilters). Any questions? Just ask and Sonja (or list members or myself) will reply within hours.

 

Pre-Design Yahoo groupe en Francais par Diane Rioux of Montreal, (who translated the Pre-Design Studio User Guide into French!)

 

Longarmpatterns.com / Pantos by Theo, original, special freestyle quilt patterns, motifs and pantos, digitized by Theo and available in all major quilt formats (CompuQuilter, IntelliQuilter, Statler, HQ Pro, PC Quilter etc.)

Secrets Of Embroidery - This Secrets of Embroidery website has, over the years, become a valuable source for tips, professional embroidery designs, embird tutorials and, lately, also for clipart for embroiderers (some made with Pre-Design :). Definitely worth checking out!

With the new Pre-Design Studio you can draw redwork, quilt patterns and applique to open directly in your embroidery machine (DST format). If your machine cannot read DST files, then click the image on the left to visit Pulse Micro website and download the free Pulse Ambassador converter.