Best machine opion for Monograming

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Hi! I'm so glad to have found this group. I have been looking at purchasing an embroidery sewing combo machine, but my head is spinning from all the research and options. I have a questions for you all, as I haven't been able to find an answer through my research.

If I'm wanting to purchase a machine, either combo unit or stand alone, to really only monogram my children's clothing what hoop size should I get. I'd like to have the option to make the letter 3'' high. I've read that with the Brother 350 sewing and embroidery, that it only creates letter that are 1'' high.

Many thanks for your help!

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Hi! I'm so glad to have found this group. I have been looking at purchasing an embroidery sewing combo machine, but my head is spinning from all the research and options. I have a questions for you all, as I haven't been able to find an answer through my research.

If I'm wanting to purchase a machine, either combo unit or stand alone, to really only monogram my children's clothing what hoop size should I get. I'd like to have the option to make the letter 3'' high. I've read that with the Brother 350 sewing and embroidery, that it only creates letter that are 1'' high.

Many thanks for your help!

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Hi! I'm so glad to have found this group. I have been looking at purchasing an embroidery sewing combo machine, but my head is spinning from all the research and options. I have a questions for you all, as I haven't been able to find an answer through my research.

If I'm wanting to purchase a machine, either combo unit or stand alone, to really only monogram my children's clothing what hoop size should I get. I'd like to have the option to make the letter 3'' high. I've read that with the Brother 350 sewing and embroidery, that it only creates letter that are 1'' high.

Many thanks for your help!

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Hi! I'm so glad to have found this group. I have been looking at purchasing an embroidery sewing combo machine, but my head is spinning from all the research and options. I have a questions for you all, as I haven't been able to find an answer through my research.

If I'm wanting to purchase a machine, either combo unit or stand alone, to really only monogram my children's clothing what hoop size should I get. I'd like to have the option to make the letter 3'' high. I've read that with the Brother 350 sewing and embroidery, that it only creates letter that are 1'' high.

Many thanks for your help!

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As far as I can tell from the on-line specs and descriptions, the built-in letters and monograms may be limited to 1" lettering, but it has embroidery hoops available up to 4"x6". You wouldn't use the built-in lettering, but would have to acquire or create additional embroidery designs.

It accepts a proprietary format memory card, which can be purchased loaded with embroidery designs, either pictorial or alphabetic. With appropriate software and a blank card, you can also purchase and download an infinity of designs create your own designs download free designs

You are not limited to the software offered by Brother; Just to make your decisions more difficult, almost ANY embroidery software program can create designs compatible with Brother's format. However, you also need a special device attached to your computer (a card reader/writer) that can write to the proprietary card.

The need for such a card and card reader is, at least to ME, a major turn-off. I much prefer embroidery systems that can use more readily available means of exchanging data with a computer, such as plug-in USB memory cards.

- Herb

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Thanks for your thoughts Herb. I finally found a sew vac store that answered all my questions and they pretty much said what you did. I did purchase a Brother 240 becuase of the USB connectivity. Thanks again!

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Just to add to this.

Or direct connect and download to the machine with no portable dongles required at all. ie. Many new machines take a cable connection directly to the embroidery machine.

A network connection would be ideal - preferably wireless. Unfortunely the sewing/embroidery manufacturers seem to stay ten years behind [3½" floopy disks anyone?]. We had a cable connect Pfaff at one time and it was a real pain in the neck looping it from the computer to the sewing machine unless they were right next to each other. Of course then it was a proprietary cable, too.

- Herb

We have two Brothers at the moment, one has USB connection and one floppies. Everytime a PC is replaced the floppy i/f begins to scare me. I am hanging on to my drives for dear life. USB has limitations in length, also but we manage about 15 feet (5 metres). This almost implies a dedicated PC for embroidery though. At $250 a crack that isn't unreasonable anymore.

I invested (a very small amount) in a couple of usb floppy drives.

I guess that should insure compatibility for the lifetime of the machine, probably. I found floppies had bad head misalligment problems when they started promoting the USB memory keys. For 10-15 years previous they were never a problem and used for file backup. Real nasty when living on dozenss of systems that were behind in technology.