It's official! I am definitely entitled to be a member of S.A.D.D. I now have 5,000 designs & only started collecting in Jan 2008! I think it's time to stop collecting & start stitching. SADD Meg

GET busy stitching! Hehehe! *4U

Thanks for all your comments, i really enjoyed reading them all even though I may not answer each one individually. I spent 36 hours in two shifts, re-formatting (in bulk thanks to Embird), re-organising & moving designs, ended up spending most of today in bed with a migraine and still have 7 full collections to go, and was still checking for freebies. AAAAAARGH!!!! That's it! It's enough to convince me they are officially dominating me & it's time to stop! from now on I'm going to be more selective & only collect "Must Haves" from Cute & Sick. Now where was that site with the cross stitch designs....... ROFLMBO! hugs n roses to all, M

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by nglover1 21 May 2008

meg, you have been a busy lady , but sounds like you have accomplished a lot. Hope you headache gets better soon. I have sinus headaches , No fun . Don't work to hard.

You definately qualify unless you seriously think you can STOP collecting....hehehe You are soooo mistaken! ;)

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by jrob 20 May 2008

oh, and P.S. you gals who are worrying about stitching out all of the designs you have collected......HOW LONG DO YOU PLAN TO LIVE?????? hahaha

Oh Meganne... I think I have close to 30K... I'll never use most of them... lol...but I'm in the same boat. Collect, collect, collect. xoxo

WOW... ;)

meganne, I'm right behind you! I started collecting in Dec. 2007, and I can't seem to stop!
If my DH knew that SADD existed, he probably would never have bought me my machine.

well ladies I also have a downloading monkey on my back, but starting to actually stitch some out and poof some of my magic is gone. So far 2 sets from Tommy=freeset don't stitch out. Tried everything double stablizer, heavier fabric. Wasted a lot of thread, time and stablizer but have to just delete these files. Kinda like sending your kids off on their own. (sigh) oh well I still have lots of others to play with, thank goodness all my 'sick' designs stitch out perfect.

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by meganne 21 May 2008

I think it pays to do a virtual stitch out before actually wasting valuable thread & materials on some freebies. Personal opinion: sadly, most Tommy free sets aren't worth keeping. hugs n roses, m

Welcome to the Club, my husband had to buy me a bigger hard drive ;-P I don't know how many designs I have but now that I am trying with digitization, my collection is huge. Flower and XoXo

now you need to get SACT
hint it has a thread in it
or SACF this one has fabric in it

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by sueffb1 20 May 2008

Minnie, I also LOVE to collect thread!!! It is just so beautiful - all those lovely colors lined up. I just do not have any more room for spools, but the designs just keep filling my computer. Have no idea how many designs, but it takes over 1 1/2 hour to move them to my "memory stick". Oh well, at least I am in GOOD company!! *4U Sue

by minnieb 20 May 2008

I think we are all the same,
rooms full of threads ribbons fabric .but I have had so much pleasure from sewing how boring would like be with out it

I agree I am a charter member of S.A.D.D. but I look
at it as they are ready when I need them. Hint whem I DL I rename them so I can find them. like Baby then the name ,Flowers then name etc. This helps me to find them. Meg a flower for you.

Even Catalogue Express can't keep up with my collection. The biggest problem is finding the one you are sure you have but can't seem to find it when you want it....LOL *4U

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by sueffb1 20 May 2008

Sqdancer, Like nglover I also rename my designs when I download them like, "Baby then the name bycuteemb.pes" (by adding the name of the location I can always know where it came from) then I put the unzipped, after I rename it, into my "BABY" file. I have different files like angels - baby - birds - flowers - Christmas - Fonts - etc. This has worked really well for me. Good Luck and Good Stitching. *4U Sue

by auntbaba 20 May 2008

Great idea! Thank-you!

by claudenicolas 20 May 2008

I must do that also

hehehe meg welcome to the club i have no idea how many designs i have got haven't counted them but i dont have any where near as much as you. i am still collecting :) happy stitching * 4 u

I am as you Meganne, I have so much downloaded now I must put order in thoses and bring up to date my bibliotheque of embroidery designs. On cute I have found a lot of free design on new sites!

My problem too. But I'm not counting! I just see the files grow and grow. Can have 20 GB before I dtart throwing never used ones out. And then I have to look first, because maybe in there might be the design of the century.. *4U

I just did a count and got over double that! Scary really - i could never stitch them all out - and half the time it takes me ages to find something to suit what I am doing - or off I go to find something new for a project!!

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by claudenicolas 20 May 2008

it is a part of the pleasure to travel through those designs downloaded to find- or not!- the good one!

by jasanne 20 May 2008

Oh so true, and i think collecting them is half the fun :)

Well I'm a member for sure - he he he - you must at least stop and stitch - or better still do what I do - stitch and search at the same time. At least u feel like you have achieved something doing it this way. Called multitasking hehe! * 4 u

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by pafhen 20 May 2008

That's it! I need to have machine and computer side by side ;-)

I guess you can sign me up too. I started around February this year and have almost 6,000 files. I wonder if I fill ever stitch them all, but oh well if not I will defenitely have a nice collection to pass to my daughter (if I ever have one). Just CANT GET ENOUGH OF IT!!! S.A.D.D. I am.

What does S.A.D.D. stand for?

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by adelmarie 20 May 2008

Seriously Addicted to Downloading Designs

by jpetersen 20 May 2008

My family comment that I have an addiction to designs allllll the time!, as I haven't watched TV in 6months, just searching for that perfect embroidery which by the way I probably could have digitised by now, LOL not as much fun as freebee searching, Julie in Aus

Meg, I think that is what my problem is. I think I have to keep collecting and not taking the time to do the stitching. lol, I'm right in the same boat but I don't think I have reached 5000 yet, since I just joined in March, but I am close behind you. You mean you counted all of those..????? *4U

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by meganne 20 May 2008

Well, you see I have a potential problem with my laptop so I've decided I must stop collecting and catch up with the converting So I'm doing a big cleanup, converting designs to my machine's format then moving all the designs I've already converted to a single Folder ready to move to Disk, so I only counted the ones I've already converted. I still have another 150+ folders to go through. It would be so much easier if I could download designs already in EMD format. No wonder i never get time to sew! LOL! hugs n roses, M

by jasanne 20 May 2008

Can your software 'batch convert' that is a folder at a time? It makes it much easier.

by jasanne 20 May 2008

Can your software 'batch convert' that is a folder at a time? It makes it much easier.