| If you are a devotee of machine sewing and you | | | | imagination can run riot as to how you would use them. |
| want to get into machine embroidery then you could | | | | You can even create designs from photographs, the |
| do no wrong if you had the Singer Quantum Futura | | | | software does the digitizing for you, it is called |
| CE-200. | | | | AutoPunch and it takes a picture or a piece of |
| The beauty of modern technology is that you can get | | | | artwork and turns it into an embroidery design that |
| parts of it to work together. For instance you can get | | | | your machine can read and understand. What about all |
| your embroidery machine to work with your PC to | | | | the designs and pictures you see in magazines? |
| give you limitless embroidery design options. | | | | Have you ever looked in a house decoration magazine |
| If you liked to embroider by hand you will be delighted | | | | and think how wonderful something looked, perhaps a |
| to find that you can produce perfect embroidery in just | | | | beautiful specimen cushion, well you couldhave that |
| a mere fraction of the time hand embroidery used to | | | | design and create one of those covers for yourself, |
| take. | | | | no problem. |
| Hand embroidery is soothing and enjoyable and a lot | | | | You do need to have some computer knowledge |
| of people will continue to work by hand simply | | | | when you try to operate a machine like the CE-200. |
| because the doing of it is what they like, but if you | | | | Unfortunately the instruction manual for the embroidery |
| want to produce work more quickly then a | | | | side leaves a lot to be desired. You should probably |
| computerized Singer embroidery machine would give | | | | download and print out the manual that comes with |
| you what you are looking for. | | | | the AutoPunch software. I think you will find that more |
| The CE-200 is special in its way because you can just | | | | informative. |
| hook it up to your PC by means of the USB cable | | | | Some people have experienced problems with their |
| between them, instal the software you will be given | | | | PC hookup, but you can get help with this either from |
| with the machine and you will have this incredibly | | | | sewing forums or the manufacturers of the machine. |
| powerful tool at your fingertips. | | | | The main benefit of hooking up directly to your PC is |
| The Singer Quantum Futura CE-200 is a combination | | | | that it does away with the need for design memory |
| of sewing and embroidery so you are going to get the | | | | cards as they can run away with quite a bit of cash. |
| very best of both worlds. | | | | I believe for this machine they run around $200 so you |
| Imagine how a patchwork quilt would look if most of | | | | can judge how much money that would save. |
| the patches had embroidered motifs on them. It would | | | | All in all a very good machine to start with for machine |
| literally be 'a picture'. | | | | embroidery. |
| When you have access to so many designs your | | | | |