Digitizing Olympics Newsletter
- August 2002
2002 Finals mark the
end of the first Digitizing Olympics
Greetings
Embroidery World!
The 2002 Finals are now behind
us along with a great year of events. Congratulations go out to our Olympics
Finalists, who worked very hard to qualify for the year end event.
Janel Harris will receive
a Wilcom ES 21L Software Program courtesy of Wilcom.
Congratulations and special thanks go out to all of our Olympians who participated
this year, and a BIG thanks to our judges
who found the extra time to stitch these designs and give an honest, professional
critique.
As for a 2003 Digitizing
Olympics, we are working hard behind the scenes to find sponsorship and
support to host these events for another year. The Embroidery Olympics
have already been scheduled for 2003, and if we can find the support, the
Digitizing Olympics will run another year of events.
The
2002 Finals
Due to our budget we regrettably
did not have the opportunity to broadcast the event via web cam from the
Opryland Convention Center as scheduled. An estimated 3000 attended the
Embroidery Mart on the weekend of August 2nd. The Finalists designs were
stitched and judged live from the Convention Center floor by judges Tammy
Prim, Lynn Rhodes and Lisa Kirchner. Running on a newly developed commercial
machine supplied by Needle Bahn Technologies, Janel's Gold Medal winning
design ran at 1,500 stitches per minute without one thread break, and completed
what was likely an intense 5 1/2 hour digitizing project for Dimensional
Designs.
What did we learn in the
2002 Digitizing Olympics? Submit
your comments here.
Special
Thanks to our Sponsors!
The
following sponsors did a great deal to assist the Digitizing Olympics in
acheiving its goals throughout the 2002 preliminaries, and the 2002 Finals.
Please visit these sponsors to show them we appreciate thier help and suuport.
Pacesetter
Cap, Inc. supplied our Judges and Olympians with caps for the December
Cap Event in 2001. Thank you Mike Mead for stepping up to support The Digitizing
Olympics in its infancy. Pacesetter has developed a revolutionary
cap system called E Zee CapTM
allowing you to create virtually ANY cap you can immagine, including the
ability to create your own custom cap catalog. Visit
Pacesetter's new and improved web site for details and a live
demo, downloadable video and tutorials.
Thank you Fred Lebow and
John Solomon, Inc. for supplying our Judges and Olympians with quality
stabilizers. Visit
the John Solomon web site for tutorials on stabilizers, sourcing the
new Hydro-Stick backing material and showing thanks for thier generous
support.
Special thanks to Alan Bird
and Universal Design for hosting the Digitizing Olympics web site, and
supporting the Olympics concept. UD.Net not only provides quality, reliable
web hosting to the embroidery industry. UD hosts some of the top web sites
on the Internet including the Embroidery
Mall, Embroidery
University and The Embroidery
List discussion group to name a few. UD recently announced a new development
called UD Web Builder which allows you to create and maintain your own
web site with no web building knowledge required.
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Without the assistance and
support from Embroidery
University and the National
Network of Embroidery Professionals, the Digitizing Olympics Finals
could not have been more than an online event. Thank you Jeni Cox and the
staff at NNEP,
and again Alan Bird with the Embroidery University for your support.
A thousand thanks to Derek Morrow and Needle Bahn Technologies for allowing us to use their machine to run the medalists designs at the Embroidery Mart. Our arrangements for a machine fell through at the last minute, and Derek stepped up to help out on super short notice during a very busy show. Visit Needle Bahn Technologies web site and take a look at the F8 PC, other machines, accessories and more.
Thank you Wilcom
for your generous prize donation for the 2002 Finals Gold Medal winner.
It will not be forgotten ;^)
Thanks again to everyone
for your patience and support of The Digitizing Olympics. Untill 2003,
I wish everyone good luck in their endevours.
Rags
Kelly R. Ragland
Webmaster
The Digitizing Olympics
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