The YouTube

So the YouTube is calling my name. I am going to start posting some short videos on there about my different crafty experiences and hacks I come up with. My embroidery machine is still being repaired so I am going without right now. It sucks. I miss it BAD. But hopefully we will hear back this week and be able to go pick it up. The worst part is it is an hour away. Worth it just to have a working machine again though. 

As soon as I have a video posted I will be sharing the link here as well. I do plan to continue to blog!!

Fonts, Fonts, Fonts!!!

SO! I recently found out that you could download fonts to your computer and they would be usable in in my PE Design 10 software! It is like my crayon box went from 4 colors to 100! 

So can you guess who sat down and individually downloaded over 200 fonts last night? Oh yeah, that was ME. I am so in love with them! Now I have figured out that there are a few fonts that are a little bit too complicated for the program but nothing too heart breaking. I have tested out a few. Now to give you a example of the fonts I have downloaded here is a variety I printed off in a word document.

Are these not cool or what? And this is only a sample of what I have downloaded! I cannot wait to use them in several projects I have planned. Now I did download them all from one source and I would like to share that here, so that if anyone else wishes to go out and get some cool fonts they can.

1001freefonts

Simply click above to check out the site. Once you download the item it will be in a Zip file. No need to unzip! Simply open up, you will see the TrueType or OpenType Font and double click that. It will open up a preview that you can see. In the preview box at the top should be a install button and it is as easy as that. Once it is installed you can actually delete it from your downloads folder. 

I hope you guys find this helpful and enjoy!

My Machine

First I want to start off with a little info on my machine and what I use. My embroidery machine is a Brother SE400, which is a embroidery sewing machine combo. So it has the ability to switch back and forth to do both. I only use for embroidery and I have another Brother machine I use only for sewing. Now my embroidery machine is currently in the repair shop, cue the sad music please. I do hope to have it back soon. Below is what my machine looks like.  

This machine has a max hoop size of 4inch by 4 inch. As you can clearly see above. Seems small but I was looking for a affordable beginner option, something simple to learn on. Now the great part of this machine is it does come with 5 built in fonts and 70 designs. That comes in very handy.  The best part of embroidery is the HUGE variety of designers out there! There are so many places to buy designs and get FREE designs. Brother machines use .PES file types, which each brand has different file types for the most part.

Now I don't claim to be an expert by any means and I am still learning every day new things. A lot of what I learn is from the awesome Facebook groups I am in and from YouTube videos posted by people who seriously know what they are doing.

I use the deign software PE Design 10, which is a Brother design software. I love how easy it is to use and learn to use. If I ever get stuck I just look up a YouTube tutorial and I am set.

Before I went much further into my adventures and stuff I wanted to explain my basic equipment I am using.

Update and Restarting!

I haven't written in way too long and the biggest reason is nothing really inspired me to write. In the past two months I have become very passionate about sewing and embroidery, especially embroidery!! I purchased a Brother Se400 on April 8th. I LOVE it. I have been learning how to use it and how to digitize aka make my own designs! The whole experience has been crazy and fun. Right now my machine is in the repair shop, and I hope this gets it all fixed. I plan to write a lot more blog posts about the whole thing simply because I am not Vlog material, lol. I just don't know how to edit videos. So None of that for me sadly.