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
- Machine Embroidery Designs for Vestments: Looking for machine embroidery designs for vestments? Start here.
- Embroidering Communion Linens: Design selection, placement and thread colors for communion linens.
- 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 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 Select Machine Embroidery Stabilizers: Permanent, temporary and which one to use on what fabric.
- How to Unzip a Zipped Folder Containing Zipped Folders in Windows: It's easy and quick and no other software is needed.
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Customer Feedback
- Customer Embroidery Projects: See pictures of our customers' finished embroidery projects. You might get a few ideas for your next project.
- Submit an Image of Your Project: It couldn't be easier to share an image of your embroidery projects!
- Customer Testimonials: Read what our customers have to say.
Machine Embroidery Tutorials & Pictorials
- How to Import and Combine Designs: Learn how to use your embroidery software to import and combine alphabet characters to create your own custom designs.
- 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.
- 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 embroidery thread colors or product numbers to other brands or styles, these sortable, colorful conversion charts will come in handy.
The pages are large and may take a few seconds to display.
- 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.
The pages are large and may take a few seconds to display.
- 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
Miscellaneous
- 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.