Free Info & Tips

Here you'll find product reviews and how-to's, machine embroidery tutorials and pictorials, embroidery thread conversion charts and color charts, embroidery hooping tips and techniques and more free information.

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How To's

How to Save Email Attachments: New to email attachments? This pictorial will show you how to save email attachments to your computer.
How to Unzip Zipped Folders with Windows XP & Vista: Learn how to handle your zipped folders without a third-party software.
How to Unzip Zipped Folders with Winzip®: Learn how to handle your zipped folders with Winzip®, the zip file utility for Windows.
How to Unzip Zipped Folders with BuzzXplore: Learn how easy it is to unzip zipped folders with BuzzXplore.
How to Zip Up Your Files with BuzzXplore: BuzzXplore not only unzips a folder, it's a zipping utility too.
How to Convert Embroidery Files with BuzzXplore: Learn how easy it is to convert your machine embroidery designs to other machine formats with BuzzXplore.
How to Crop Images with Photoshop CS: Learn a quick and easy way to crop your images.
How to Select Machine Embroidery Stabilizers: Permanent, temporary and which one to use on what fabric.

Machine Embroidery Tutorials & Pictorials

PE-Design 7 Review: If you are considering upgrading your present installation of PE-Design or you are researching machine embroidery digitizing software, this review of PE-Design 7 manual digitizing features may be helpful to you.
Checking the Top Thread Tension on Your Embroidery Machine: How to do it and interpret the results.
Hooping Sulky® Sticky Stabilizer & Tearaway Stabilizer: Use this machine embroidery hooping technique for large, stitch intensive designs.
Hoopless Embroidery Technique: Using Sulky® Sticky Stabilizer & Floating a Layer of Stabilizer: Machine embroidery hooping pictorial showing how to do 'hoopless' machine embroidery.
Applique Tutorial for Machine Embroidery: If you're new to machine embroidered appliques, learn how easy, fun and creative it is in this tutorial/pictorial.
How to Digitize a Basic Redwork Design: In this free and comprehensive PE-Design tutorial you'll learn how to digitize your own Redwork designs.
Comparing PE-Design's Auto Punch Feature to a Manually Punched Design: Is it worth the time learning to manually punch a design rather than auto punching it?
Complete Parts List for the Brother PR600 & PR600C: A "must have" for all PR600 owners!

Thread Conversion Charts

Need Embroidery Thread Conversion Charts?
You Need 'My Thread Box'

When you need to convert or compare Robison-Anton embroidery thread colors or product numbers to other brands or styles, these sortable, colorful conversion charts will come in handy.
As you can imagine, the pages are large and may take a few seconds to completely download on a slower connection.

Robison-Anton Machine Embroidery Thread Color Charts

Looking for a RA color but don't have your hard copy chart handy? These colorful, sortable charts offer an on-screen representation of the thread color, the thread name and the RA product number.
They are large and may take a few seconds to load on a slower connection.