GROUP use of Amazing Box to format FREE Internet design downloads???

It is really frustrating to have a Janome 9000 -- able to use MOST of the bells and whistles that the other 'big' embroidery machines have -- but the .sew format and wierd-sized disk they use (not a small floppy and not a CD), makes life really difficult! There are all these designs on the Net that you can download -- free -- especially those associated with all the quilting and sewing programs and manufacturer's web sites -- but it has to be something you can put on a floppy or CD.

Now, I know there is a $400 toy that you can use to convert one format to another..... and I know that there IS a copyright question -- BUT -- if these designs are offered FREE on the Net for the download, why can't we somehow figure out how to convert the formats to ones we can use? It seems like we ought to be able to have a friend do it for us -- or that someone should offer the service. After all, how many of us can afford the $400 Amazing Box to do it....especially if we only do 'big' embroidery projects occasionally !?!

Can we form a "Project Download Conversion Help' group -- or go together with embroidery machine groups that would help? I'd be glad to pay for the service -- or for the copy of the FREE download in my format (.sew) -- if the service was available.

Can someone comment or point me in a direction to start inquiring??? I know there are a zillion machine embroiders, quilters, etc., out there would would love to have something like this available!

Maybe a sewing/embroidery group in one area could 'go together' and get an Amazing Box for club members to use.... or???? Ideas? Anywhere to point me here in Omaha???

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Linda
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I bought the magic box and here in canada it goes for 650 after tax so if you can get it for 400 then in my mind it is a still........... the other thing is I got the ideal that you do not understand how the magic box or the amazing box works you machine only takes on kind of card but you friend at your quilting or embroidery guild has another kind of card..... my box came with the card that will work on my machine it only has space for 6 patterns at a time ........ I download my designs off the net and onto this card I like to but six designs on at the same time......... but when I go and get another 6 new ones I am using the same card so I am over righting onto the 6 that was there before........ these magic cards go for about 100 dollars. I can store all my designs that I buy off the net onto my hard drive so I can use them over and over. but I can not burn them to a cd ( I think that I can not have not tried yet. just was told that I can not) so that I can not had them over to anyone else. The program that comes with the box will convert other format to the format that your sewing machine read.

hope that this helps.

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Phyllis Moody

Hi Linda, Forget the Amazing Box. Find a couple of friends interested in machine embroidery (doesn't matter what brand of machine they have) and buy a PES2Card3 usb. I belong to a group of 8, we rent a room at a local recreation centre once a fortnight and sew all day plus lots of talking. Between us we have 4 Pfaffs, 2 Brothers, 1 Husqvarna and 1 Janome and I have a laptop computer. Each friend has their own blank card and they choose which designs they want (on the Pfaff card up to 35 designs) insert the card and the PES2Card 3 writes the designs in the format for that particular card. I bought the PES2Card3 usb from

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US$375 and a friend brought it to Australia for me. Go to Sewstuff's website and on the homepage click on the picture of PES2Card3. It's really great and I can use my own Pfaff and Brother cards, save them to my computer, resize, add lettering and then write the designs to a blank card. I also have the Amazing Box which I bought in Australia for AU$850 and I never use it because I can't save to the computer to resize my designs and even if I could, it only writes 6 designs to a card. By the way, the blank card that came with the Am. Box also works in PES2Card3. Brilliant!!!............Lynne

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Lynne

You also have the Vikant Ultmate box. Around US $170 (at

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and other places)with a card. I belive it writes to differnet original cards. Read aboute it at:
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converting and change size of the designs Embird isbrilliant. Only US $ 70-80 depending on where you buy from
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Reply to
Åsa W

I might have been wrong here. Not sure it works with Janome. Sorry! Have Brother myself and for that it´s perfect!

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Åsa W

my magic box works with brother, bernina deco, babylock,simplicity,viking,singer, janome/new home,elna,kenmore, artista,pfaff, and janome10000. I have the 4 slot box not the two. I took this so that I can open the field of designs I can buy.

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Phyllis Moody

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