[SEL] [SEL} Hit Miss Embroidery Program Wanted

[Jim French]

Hi Francis

Sounds like you need your picture digitising (the process of turning a 
graphic into an embroidery design).
There are lots of people who do this - I had photos of Jim's motorbikes 
and oilfield engine made into small sewing designs about 4" sq which was 
the maximum size I could use on my old sewing machine.  I think it cost 
me $120 for all three designs.
http://www.insulate.co.uk/helen/mystuff/sewing14.htm
 Many digitizers charge per 1000 stitches.  I also found one on eBay who 
charged a flat rate and did a superb job of Reg's Regimota logo for me:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EMBROIDERY-DIGITIZING-SERVICE-HOME-INDUSTRIAL-FORMATS_W0QQitemZ8244371650QQcategoryZ71196QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Once you've got the design, all  you need to do is buy the garment and 
find someone who can put the two together for you.  I'm on some 
embroidery forums, so I'm sure I could find someone local to you.
Once you have paid to have the design digitised, that design belongs to 
you.  The formats are easily converted from one type of machine to 
another - even I have the software to do that!
I would recommend getting quotes from at least a couple of places.
Let me know, helen at insulate.co.uk, if I can be of further help.

Dolly

FRM8198 at aol.com wrote:

>Hi List,
>Does anyone know where I can get embroidery program for a "hit  miss" type 
>engine?  I want to get a jacket embroidered with a scene of a  hit miss engine.  
>I took a picture of an Economy engine to my local  embroidery shop and I was 
>told that they didn't have an available program  to make an embroidery of the 
>engine.   They could develop a  program for a price which is beyond my budget 
>and, furthermore, the program  would not be mine.
>Any suggestions where I can  get data for this project, will  be appreciated. 
> 
>
>
>  
>
-- 

Jim French
fbi at insulate.co.uk
http://www.insulate.co.uk
http://www.oldengine.org/members/dolly/index.htm