About Sadia
Hello, My name is Sadia Andrews. After much deliberation, I decided to create an About Me page. I am a home maker with background in law and public relations. After retiring, I went shopping for a sewing machine and laid my eyes on my first embroidery machine.
It was the Deco 600. Ofcourse I didn’t purchase it but couldn’t keep it out of my mind so a week later I went back to the shop and purchased it. The next three days and nights were spent embroidering anything that I could lay my eyes on. After about a month, I ventured to find out if I could create my own designs and was introduced to PE Design. My first digitized design took me quite a long while…since then it is history. I graduated from PE Design to Embird Digitizing Studio with some dabbling in Generations. I found all softwares to be alike in some ways. Today I do all my digitizing with Embird Digitizing Studio.
Born in Sialkot, Pakistan I come from a rich background of Russian, Kashmiri and Persian blends. My Paternal Grandfather migrated from Uzbekistan to Kashmir and married my Grandmother. He is known for starting the trucking industry of shipping goods to and from the northern areas to the Indian Ocean port of Karachi. The rest houses or motels still stand today.
My Maternal Grandparents,both travelled from Isphahan, Iran to Aligarh, India. My Grandfather was the first Muslim Professor at the Aligarh University and Dean of Physics. Education played a very important role in my Mother’s family and she was the first girl to study beyond high school, earning her Bachelor in Economics. At partition of India/Pakistan they migrated to Sialkot where the family started the surgical and sports industry known throughout the world even today.
In a restricted society for women, but with encouragement from my parents, I graduated from the Law College of University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. My field of specialty was criminal law. Lahore is known for its rich history and monuments. Even during my practice years, I would often dream of having a boutique where I would design and make clothes. My dream was to come true when a friend decided to start a fashion house with me.
Now that I am retired, I am a full time digitizer. I enjoy creating designs for machine embroidery that are unique yet have an heirloom feel to them. Ofcourse, this is all in preparation for our present generation to create heirlooms for tomorrow.
Comments
Comment from Ditto
Time: December 7, 2006, 10:57 pm
Hi there!
Thanks for the 2006 gift and loved reading your personal history page! You are quite a woman in many ways! Still appreciate all the personal instruction you gave me via email several years ago.
Ditto who is in Santa Barbara for Winter/Spring
Comment from Junee
Time: January 4, 2007, 9:22 pm
Thanks for your interesting page about you. Your story is a great inspiration to me as I am retired and would dearly love to follow such a journey with sewing.
Keep up the information please.
Thanks again,
Junee
Comment from Sadia
Time: January 6, 2007, 12:56 am
Thank you friends for your comments, I truly appreciate them. Hugs, Sadia
Comment from Tidy Swope
Time: February 28, 2007, 1:33 pm
In your article about bump in life, you mentioned colored prewound bobbins. My group of volunteers (retired navy wives) is looking for colored prewound bobbins in polyester thread. We are trying to make Cancer Awareness Bracelets to raise money for the Cancer fund. Do you have any information on where we could obtain these. Thank you for your help. This may not be the right place to ask this, so excuse me if that is the case. Tidy Swope
Comment from Sadia
Time: February 28, 2007, 4:32 pm
Tidy, I’ve also written to you privately but you can get colored pre-wound bobbins at Superior threads. The url is:
http://www.superiorthreads.com/index.php?page=shop.browse&root=65&category_id=66&option=com_phpshop&Itemid=88
Do check their website to see which machine you have and what kind pre-wound bobbin would work.
Your projects sounds wonderful and thank you so much for doing this. HUGS, Sadia
Comment from mary
Time: March 12, 2007, 4:55 am
my name is maria,I like your older freebees designs but not possibel save your designs,please help me ,I not have the password for save,sorry my Ingles is not gut,tkank you.
Comment from dell
Time: June 15, 2007, 12:32 pm
Could you send me the link to your designs? I would like to purchase some.
Response: Dell, my website link is on the left but here is t he link: http://www.sadiasews.com
Hugs, Sadia
Comment from bbrad
Time: June 21, 2007, 3:20 pm
I hope this is the alternate method you mentioned for contact. Have a good trip to wherever and I hope by then our travails with ESPC are over. You have been of assistance and I hope you are correct about these folks. If not, I will be given another opportunity to excel.
bbrad
Comment from Sahel
Time: June 22, 2007, 9:00 am
Great Site/Blog you have here.
Im totally impressed by your knowledge and experience.
Since when have you been doing embroidery and desigs?
Response:
Thank you Sahel for your comment, I appreciate it. I’ve been digitizing since 1999 but had my site open to public since 2001. Sadia
Comment from Angie White
Time: July 3, 2007, 1:45 pm
I was given your website address by Southeast Sewing. I have an Embird software program, and I am having difficulty with this program I have sent 2 emails to Embird and they send back to me they will be in touch in 48 hours, but I still do not hear back from them. I usually put my designs in the Embird program for sizing, but I can not get the manager program to work. I keep getting an error. Do You have a phone# for this company. I really need this design sized. I would appreciate your help.
Thanks for your Help!
Angie
Response:
Angie, Resizing of a design is only possible in Editor and not in Manager. The Balarads are based in Slovakia and any information about the company can be seen on http://www.embird.com However, I’ve sent you a private email asking the problem if I can help. Hugs, Sadia
Comment from mary
Time: July 9, 2007, 4:58 am
hello sadia,I live in portugal and like visited your sit sadiasews.com,please help me I like the gift 2004 bowl in freebee page,please help me to save this bowls for me,thank you,kiss for mary.
Comment from Sadra Behlen
Time: August 28, 2007, 3:20 pm
I would like to buy a embroidery machine, but every where I go my machine is the best? They want to sell their machine. I want to embroider on quilt s mainly, and sheets towels etc… Iwant to be able to auto digitizing of my designs. I have looked at Husqvarna, Janome, Elna. I really only need and embroidery machine, I have an Elna Quilters machine. But if its cheaper to buy a sewing ,embroidery machine this is firne also. HELP!!!! I doubt that I could aford another embroider machine again so this needs to last .
Thank you for your time and help with this . Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks again Sandra
Response:
Sandra, please excuse the delay in responding. Since you are only wanting to purchase an embroidery only machine, may I suggest you have a look a the Brother PR600 or the Babylock BMP machines. These are similar machines and are considered semi-commercial machines. The best thing about these machines is that one has no need for worrying about tension problems or trims. They require minimum upkeep….oil every day to the bobbin hook and service at least once a year and go on embroidering perfectly every time. As much as the home embroiderer uses her machines for embroidery, I would highly recommend that a semi commercial machine would do much better than a TOL home embroidery machine. The best thing again is their price range is less than a TOL home embroidery machine. Hope this helps. Hugs, Sadia
Comment from Daisy Pomeroy
Time: October 17, 2007, 12:51 am
First I would like to say your work is extremely beautiful and I have enjoyed very much your freebies!!! I recently got embird studio and trying to learn digitizing… I’ll probably never be as good as you are at it. How do I find people to test out my work in other formats for me since I only have Viking Designer 1, don’t they have to be tested before you can put them up for sale??? Thank You So Much!!!
Comment from Sadia
Time: October 20, 2007, 7:56 pm
Daisy, thank you for your comments, I truly appreciate them. Yes, testing via different machines is one sure way to eliminate any surprises especially when a design is to be on the market for sale. After all, whomever is purchasing would want perfection and perfection is only there when one has the answers to all questions. Hugs, Sadia
Comment from Valerie
Time: December 16, 2007, 5:42 pm
I’m trying to find an update for my Palette Version 4, so I can use it with Windows XP. Can I still download something like this anywhere? Thank you.
Comment from Sadia
Time: December 18, 2007, 6:59 pm
Valerie, Brother website can always be referred to if you need to update etc: http://www.brother-usa.com/homesewing/software/
Hope this helps. Hugs, Sadia
Comment from Wanda
Time: January 9, 2008, 7:59 am
Hello Sadia,
Your work is Big Beautiful !!!!! ,
Thanks you .
Best wisches ,
Wanda
Comment from D
Time: June 24, 2008, 10:35 am
Hope you are staying dry and out of harms way from the flooding!
HUGS from another flood surviver now living high on a hill 
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