Tidbits-9/14/06
Round Bobbin Show:
Just another short post regarding the show. I’m knee nay I’m neck deep in getting ready for it. Keep thinking that I have it all and then another idea hits me and there I go again. For those of you who will be attending, I will be teaching three hands on classes every day and a trunk show every day. The hands on classes are limited and best to get an early registration for them. To register for my hands on classes, call Heydes (http://www.heydesewing.com) at 314-487-0307. To view the classes and their description: http://www.sadiasews.com/schedule2006.html The trunk shows are with Round Bobbin and they can be registered on site or prior to the show: http://roundbobbin.com/stcharles/
Home Embroidery machines and commercial usage:
An interesting email was sent to me yesterday by a client who wished to know if using her home embroidery machine for commercial purposes (selling embroidered items using it) was an okay thing to do. She further went on to explain that her newly purchased embroidery machine was not being honoured for warranty work as the dealer refused on basis of her using the machine for commerical purposes. What commercial usage??? She embroidered 300 T-shirts, 100 stadium blankets and several other hundred items before the machine starting making strange sounds and finally started acting up. Okay….truthfully, I didn’t realise and did not know although something was in the back of my mind about this that home embroidery machines have a stipulation in regards to commercial work. It indeed is an interesting question and one I intend to follow up on at the soonest. I did visit several different brand name home embroidery machine dealers’ websites and interestingly there was the writing “HOUSEHOLD SEWING MACHINES ARE NOT INTENDED FOR COMMERCIAL USE AND THEREFORE THE COMMERCIAL USE OF THESE PRODUCTS WILL VOID ALL WARRNTIES, INCLUDING THE 30 DAY RETURN POLICY”. My question here is: Is commercial usage regarded as the number of hours the machine is used between checkups or is commercial usage regarded as sale items created using the machines? I did do an online search for machine manuals of different brands and literally every one of them had the wording in plain sight: THIS MACHINE IS INTENDED FOR HOUSEHOLD USE.
Saga of ESPC:
Yup, it still continues but now we have new players in the field of further creating havoc and accusations against ESPC. Lately an online gripe center “Infoworld” posted some articles: http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2006/9/11/82110/2869
http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2006/9/12/0105/66645
Interesting reading and interesting twists to what I don’t believe the ESPC had ever imagined. True, put three people in the room and you have three different approaches, opinions. Put a hundred/thousands and you have what? Chaos indeed. The rebel group that started this campaign of hatred and malice towards the ESPC is frizzling on its last legs. The owners/moderators have personal agendas to take care of and those who were maintaining the group have since decided best to take refuge elsewhere and have started their own group of “lets teach the embroiderers about copyrights”. My feelings, more power to them if they can truly teach everyone what copyrights are in regards to Intellectual property. I do hope they carry their scheme without bringing personal interpretation of the laws (as they seem to be doing here on the blog-read posts earlier regarding copyrights). Amongst them is a loose cannon of years gone by trying to relive her glorious past. My thinking….those who live in the past don’t succeed in anything. Move on.
OMG, its a beautiful design!
Sometimes, I often wonder what some of the digitzers were thinking when they decided to take parts of another design, blend it with several others and present it as their own. I happened upon a new site which has an absolutely gorgeous design for free download. Closer look at the design revealed a definite portion missing. Not so obvious at first sight but very much so once discovered. Downloading the design, I was amazed that each portion had totally different types of digitizing effects….with clever connectors placing the whole design together. Absolutely ingenious work! All for the sake of what? Oh well, LOL. My best wishes if the scam can be carried on to its fullest. Only time will tell.
If that is not enough, I was surprised to find similarity in the type of stitches used in a new breed of digitizers. Each one has these specific designs for sale with dead ends to all their other collections. Some have other designs as well but the workmanship is clearly of a novice whereas the workmanship of this particular type of design matched with at least five different digitizers. The design is of such a nature that stitches can easily be seen. As I have said before, no two people can create the same stitch with the same types of waverings, loops, etc. For five different people to achieve this…very interesting.
