Not marketing to me
Dec. 3rd, 2017 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateSo there's this embroidery machine still living on my dining room table, and I've been rather having fun stitching out stuff on it even though I haven't done anything with any of it yet and the ordinary sewing functions are irritating in a number of ways that mostly come down to "I like my pfaff better when it's actually working." So after a week or two of drooling over designs at Urban Threads I went to look into embroidery software for making my own.
And what we find is that a) the options for Mac are still quite limited, and b) people who sell this software think their users are more interested in changing thread colors & modeling what things will look like on finished garments than converting their own image files into embroidery files. Whereas I haven't stitched anything in the prescribed colors yet, am perfectly capable of imagining what things look like sewn up, and all I want is the ability to turn simple jpgs & things I sketch in my notebook into auto-stitched designs. Ok, and sort/see files on the computer, but that is actually a basic feature.
The search continues...
And what we find is that a) the options for Mac are still quite limited, and b) people who sell this software think their users are more interested in changing thread colors & modeling what things will look like on finished garments than converting their own image files into embroidery files. Whereas I haven't stitched anything in the prescribed colors yet, am perfectly capable of imagining what things look like sewn up, and all I want is the ability to turn simple jpgs & things I sketch in my notebook into auto-stitched designs. Ok, and sort/see files on the computer, but that is actually a basic feature.
The search continues...