Viking Quilt Designer II Embroidery question. . .

nice to have you join us on rctq. hi uh uh , is the N for Nancy? Naomi? Nigella? or you could be a Norman, Nathan or Nigel? just being nosey, comes with being a quilter i guess, lol.

sorry cant help ya with the download info but i'm sure someone here will soon. do tell us a bit more about yourself, your quilting, your QIs, your chocolate preferences, ya know the usual stuff that keeps us quilters rolling right along.

got pix of your quilting etc anywhere on line for us to drool over. i live vicarously in cyberspace, lol. cheers from another sunny winter day in the south pacific, jeanne

I am Nancy from Huntsville, Alabama. I have quilted ever since my daughter decided that she was not going to wear the fancy smocking and frend hand sewn stuff that I was making. I do not know how to post pictures of what I have made to the web.

Chocolate preference - the darker the better. I really belive that chocolate was the last thing that God created.

The Vik> nice to have you join us on rctq.

ah, nice to meet you, Nancy. i was right the first time, clever me, lol. there are a number of different places you can post pix online for free. i use webshots, fairly user friendly. i had no probs with it.

heres the link for mine there... the community section and find yourself a unique nickname to use if you like or whatever way you fancy for it, then when you get reg'd on it, go to your page and 'add photo', follow the dialog windows, fairly easy if you have pix on your puter to upload.then let us all know and we'll go have a drool and report back. :)if you want to do more checking, you could google for free photo sites and see if one of those appeal to you more or wait a while and see what others use here. cant wait to see your goodies. holler if you get stuck. jeanne

I have a DII with Customizing Plus so I don't know about 3D, but i am gong to assume (we all know what means) that you want vp3. I use .vip all the time with no problems. Have fun with your machine. I love the embroidery unit. Use it alot. Have done a lot of fun things with it.

Debbi > I am trying to download embroider designs on my D card, and cannot

Most of the Husqvarna/Viking machines use .hus format. (the "hus" is from Husqvarna I believe. ) Your dealer should be able to tell you for sure. I have a Rose but haven't yet downloaded anything for it. Have fun at the Martha school.

Pati, > I am trying to download embroider designs on my D card, and cannot

I don't know your particular machine, you might want to join a yahoo list for that. I would guess that the design you would would download would be HUS format, but I do know that your software WILL convert any of the designs you download into HUS format for you.

L>I am trying to download embroider designs on my D card, and cannot

There is a yahoo group for Designer owners.

's a ton of mail on that group [which drives me crazy] but somebody will always respond to your questions. The format that you choose to download depends upon what kind of software you have installed and how many formats your software recognizes.

When downloading a design, I have always been advised by my Viking dealer/instructor that .dst is the best format to download into your software because it is truer to the original design. However, the colors are lost and you have to program them in. Most of us who use embroidery software end up tweaking the colors anyway, so it's not too big a deal.

When you write your card using the software, the software changes the file suffix. Even though I work with many design formats, when I use the card writer/or disc writer, the format always changes to.shv on the floppy disk but I am unsure what it turns into on your QDII d-card.

Your dealer should be able to answer your question as it pertains to your particular machine. Janet Wilkinson