u/Izezti

Story time :)

In 2018 I was given an ‘09 Bernina aurora 440. Great machine, seriously phenomenal! But out dated and at end of life. The software gone, the motherboard intermittent…

Last year the main board went completely, but with such a solid machine I had it serviced and ultimately replaced. Cha-Ching!

Then the long awaited embroidery rabbit hole...

Then this summer… no software, no clue, but very curious. I couldn’t fathom spending $3-4k for digitizing software so I set out to build my own. That of course was half the problem with a close to two decade old machine!

I know the tension is way off, the material wasn’t stretched, almost nothing about this ‘works’. However, I am so excited to keep something that was designed to mechanically last decades and revitalize it with a fresh software package!

I need to do some work before a beta release, but happy to share with anyone once ready to deploy. If you’re on mac iOS that will be first, but I hate the Mac/PC divide so apparent in this area, I’ll make sure to release both soon.

Poppy Embroidery is still cooking, I want all the features and all the math for all sorts of wonderful design options but for tonight, I give you for the first time in 15+ years, a little dragon fly! If you’re interested in following along with either www.poppyembroidery.com

I have a Bernina 440 QE, a seriously amazing machine, but with the software out of date, and owning a Mac, I can't find anything that will let me digitize and mess around with CNC machine embroidery.

So, for now, I've played with a more 'painting' method, and since I had a small circle hoop to work with... You get EYES!

P.S. As an engineering-artist and unwilling to spend $1k on digitizing software, I recently started coding a system of my own to use for both vector editing and digitizing. Its an extensive project, but I'd be curious if anyone would like to try it out when I have a working version. I'm hoping to be done with a beta in a couple of weeks!