My name is Neil Atkin and I am Sharon's oldest son. Sharon and I are producing a new website with all digital media. Every thing from Gammill Longarm patterns and original patterns with video tutorials all the way to Internet based lessons on her techniques.
Please visit our site and if you are interested sign up for the news letter and you will receive two FREE patterns from Sharon.
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Again if this is out of line I am sorry but what better way to spread the word then to tell the ones that have taken her class in the past.
Our usual philosophy here, Neil, is that we don't like ads for things that are for *sale*. Since you're advertising freebies, I can't see why any of us would be upset. :)
BTW, I'm one who's taken some of your mom's classes in the past, and I've signed up for the free stuff, too. Her lessons are awfully detailed and complete -- a joy to use. :) Thanks!
One of the main things that Sharon wants to do is to have alot of free info and patterns on the site. Its her opinion that for new quilters there is a lack of quality information and there is no better way to start them off then to give it to them free.
Enjoy the site and thank you so much for signing up.
This is a great site. I signed up. There are so many nice lessons on the site. The binding class is priceless. It sure is going to help me. If you haven't yet, check this site down.
Check your email addy that you used for it.. That's where you confirm it (like they didn't by sending you the email. Really didn't make sense : | ) Sure was a diff way of making basket handles. looked much easier that the way I've been doing it.even with the basting--gets it UP OFF the floor-no more sore knees or like Miz Sairey would say "It was a 2/3/4 beer job"
Butterfly (never to old to learn a newer easier way ; )
hi Neil, i signed up last week and when i got the link for the 2 free patterns i found the ginormous size of them would take me 16 to 17 hrs each to download on dial up. even for those with broadband i'm sure they'd take a fair while. our broadband here is not as fast as in usa either, of that i'm sure. how ever did those 'free' ones get soooooooooooooooooo big? maybe they could be split into smaller sections? sharon or you did send me an outline drawing of the two patterns but i'm missing out on all the info that comes with the designs. :(( oh well, i shall have to rely on my own devices and technique on these. they sure are pretty ones. :)) good luck with the new venture, jeanne
It was actually my partner-n-crime that sent you the email. His name is Ricky and he is taking care of all the web design and Internet marketing. I have to say that thanks to him we have been able to reach and exceed all out pre-launch goals. But that is another subject.
What you are missing out on is the full PDF tutorial that Sharon produces for her patterns. Yes they are great to have, as im sure anyone that has purchased patterns or downloaded the ones we have will attest to. Ricky and I will be authoring a video tutorial on how to use a download manager for customers like yourself. What it will be able to do is manage all your downloads so that if there is an interruption in your connection you will be able to resume right back where you started. I would have to recommend this especially for people with dial-up connections. For now you can download the program at
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. It is a good program butcan be a bit overwhelming at first. I will give you some basicinstructions right now. Note: This is a free program that I have used for the past few years. It is perfectly safe and doesn't contain any malicious programs to be afraid of.
After FlashGet is installed and you have a link to a video you want to download. You will need to right click on your mouse and bring up the menu select the flashget option. That will activate the program and bring it up. After that you can choose where to save your file.
If you are using FireFox (I highly recommend you do use this browser any how
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, again totally free andsafe) you can add a program plugin called "FlashGot" virtuallyidentical to FlashGet but for Firefox.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/220 again right click choose option "FlashGot Link" andchoose where you want to save the file. I will have a tutorial video on our YouTube page by the end of next week to assist you with this.
We do realize that there will be a fair percentage of customers with dial up access and I will be starting a service shortly after launch that will address that. But for now we will just have to work together.
Feel free to email me at natkin(a)gmail com or sharonschambernetwork(a)gmail com for any help with the downloads.
I hope this helps a bit.
-Neil
P.S.
If you could please help spread the word about our site we would greatly appreciate it.
I too signed up but I don't think I will be downloading either of the two free patterns - one is 62Mb and the other is 57Mb unless they are fairly spectacular. I have Adobe V8.1 on my computer and all I wanted was the pattern not the program. I have broadband as well.
I might have been offended (not really) if she hadn't been mentioned her so often! I just consider this an extension of the posts that mentioned her before.
After one of the members here posted her beautiful work done with Sharon at quilt camp (Sandy, was that you?), I headed to Amazon to buy one of Sharon's books. The website is just icing on the cake.
I tried to download the patterns as well. I walked away & did some ironing & when I came back, they still hadn't downloaded, so I have now deleted the email with the links in them. That is just too ridiculous, IMNSHO. I have a new computer with DSL connection & there is no way I'm going to tie up my computer that long to download a pattern that I don't even know what it looks like.
I'm with you. I have high speed internet. I'm not going to wait and wait to see a pattern when I don't even know what it is. Gonna delete the messge, too!
Now wait a sec ... are these supposed to be PDF files??!! I designed a
100+ magazine for a while and it took nearly 100 300DPI, CMYK images to top 60 MBs.
Neil, if you don't mind me saying, your PDF files, unless they are meant strictly for print on a commercial press, shouldn't be more than say, 10 MBs. Have your guy knock the resolution of the images down to
96-150, tops. It REALLY sounds like he's going over the top resolution-wise. AND make them strictly RGB (most home printers use RGB profiles natively, though they print in CMYK).
Bottom line is that no matter how gorgeous the images and patterns are, no one's going to use them if it takes forever to D/L them. And if no one uses them, your biz isn't going to go far at all. :(
We are making a change to where you can download the pattern for the block seperate from the tutorial. I was unaware of this many issues with downloading it. I am downloading it right now and my projected time for competiton is 7min 30sec for the whole tutorial. Do you feel that this is unacceptabel?
Thank you for all your comments and I will do my very best to accomidate you.
We have just resent out another newsletter with links to just the pattern. After I update the tutorial and get it to 20MB range i will upload it to our server and send out a newsletter with a link to it.
I also want to note that we will be changing servers in about two weeks so that after the sight launches you will be able to download as fast as your connection will allow.
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