When did you get into embroidery ...?

So the other part of yesterday's question was, "When did you get into embroidery?" It's another day and time for another story (though this one isn't nearly as long nor as interesting as the other one).

Some number of years ago, but since we moved to Colorado, the Lady Ann desired a new sewing machine. So, being the gracious hubby that I am (translates into "It is so hard for me to tell her no") agreed to let her buy a really fancy machine, not that I probably had much say anyway. It was this Pfaff Creative 7570. She was going to class for this machine for what seemed a really long time (months? a year?). She brought home from class really interesting stuff like towels and bags embroidered with some picture. The stuff looked really great! Some of you may have even gotten one or more as presents.

So the newness of the machine wore off eventually and it was rarely used - sometimes to embroider a present but more often to mend something or to create something that couldn't be store bought (like a Pikachu Halloween costume). So friends of ours desired a logo and name on some winter jackets that they wear as part of ski team. We had months to get it sewn but it didn't happen. We thought D-Day had arrived and I attempted to do the computer processing of the images to be embroidered on the jackets. The software was terrible - remember it was written 5ish years ago.

So off to the store to buy new software to translate .BMP files into sewing machine files. That software is really pricey! But a committment had been made and so the software was purchased and a new business was started to try to pay for it! So now we can translate .BMP files into embroidery stitches on cloth and I'm looking for customers.