Free Info & Tips
Here you'll find how-to's, machine embroidery tutorials and pictorials, embroidery thread conversion charts and color charts, embroidery hooping tips and techniques and more free information.
How To's
- How to Instantly Download Your Designs: Learn how Instant Download works with this quick pictorial.
- 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 Files & Folders in Windows 7
- How to Unzip Files & Folders in Windows XP & Vista
- How to Unzip Zipped Folders with Winzip®: Learn how to manage your zipped folders with Winzip®.
- 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.
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- Commercial Embroidery License: Read our commercial licensing terms.
Artists Wanted!
- Sell Your Art for Embroidery Digitizing: We're always looking for new art and fresh ideas for embroidery designs.
Machine Embroidery Tutorials & Pictorials
- How to Import Designs in PE-Design: Learn how to import and combine designs and alphabet characters to create your own custom designs.
- 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
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.
- Why Robison-Anton Machine Embroidery Thread is the Best Thread Available
- Compare RA #122 Super Strength Rayon™ to Madeira Rayon
- Compare RA #122 Super Strength Rayon™ to Sulky (Gunold) Rayon
- Compare RA #122 Super Strength Rayon™ to RA #122 Super Brite Polyester®
- Compare RA #122 Super Brite Polyester® to Isacord Polyester
- Compare RA #122 Super Brite Polyester® to Sulky Polyester
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.
- Robison-Anton Super Strength Rayon™ Color Chart: Solid Colors.
- Robison-Anton Twister Tweeds & Variegated Thread Color Chart
- Robison-Anton #122 Super Brite Polyester®Color Chart
Diversities
A little of this and a little of that.
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- Embroidery Digitizing Tools & Techniques: You'll need the software of course, but there's more involved.
- About Machine Embroidery Digitizing: My perspective on this fascinating art form.
- Awareness Ribbon Solid Color Meanings: Learn what causes the solid colors signify.
- Multiple Color Awareness Ribbons: Learn what causes the multiple and striped colors signify.
- About Redwork Embroidery Designs: Less really is more.
- Kona Cotton: The Quilter's & Embroiderer's Dream Fabric
- Convert Millimeters to Inches: And vice-versa.
- The Story of Old Book and the Graveyard Elm: If you love old ghost stories then this tale is for you.
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