Machine Embroidery

If you’ve ever fought your machine’s hoop — the fabric won’t stay taut, the big hoop won’t clip in, or

You found a great patch design — a border, a shape, a blank banner — and now you want to

You’re about to stitch a design, and the questions start piling up. What color goes first? How much thread will

You’ve got a DST file sitting on your computer. Now what? First, the thing nobody tells you: a DST won’t

You found the perfect design, bought or downloaded it… and your machine won’t read it. It came as a PES

You opened your DST file, and… these aren’t the right colors. Your design is covered in bright, random “zombie colors”

Congratulations — you bought an embroidery machine. That takes guts, and you’re going to make some beautiful things with it.

Short answer: keep your designs in one place, then keep two copies of that place — one on an external

Short answer: your machine reads one or two specific formats, and the rest of the files in a design pack