Hi Dianne,

Welcome back! First of all, you want the PES format for your machine. Second, downloading your designs varies from web site to web site. Here are the steps for downloading here at Embroidery.com:

1) Login at Embroidery.com.
2) Hover over "Hello [Your Name] (Account)" at the top of the page.
3) Click on "My Designs."
4) Click on the design you want to download.
5) Click on "Details/Download." You will see a list of files in various formats.
6) Right click on the file in your format and choose "Save Link As" or "Save Target As". Select your Flash Drive/USB Stick (or other location you'd like to save to) from the list. Click "Save." (If you're on a Mac, do this instead: click on the file in your format and then choose "save" or "okay" if prompted; otherwise, your file will automatically save to your computer. You'll need drag it from your computer and drop it onto your stick/thumb drive.)
7) Repeat for any additional designs.

And here is how to find the designs on your computer and extract (unzip) them, if needed.
https://www.embroidery.com/console?ltid=21&xid=294...


If you could use a refresher on using the machine from the manual, here's an online source for the manual to this machine:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/manualtop.aspx?c=u...

Page 147 shows how to transfer designs from your computer to your embroidery machine.

That's a lot of information, but if you take it a step at a time, it will start to feel familiar, and you'll be back at it in stitching time!

Hi Patricia, perhaps this video will help:

Hi Rebecca,

Most likely if you leave the screen for re-sizing and go to your usual sewing screen, you will be able to stitch the design.

Dee, Welcome to embroidery! Are you familiar with the American Sewing Guild? Many of its members also embroider. I would suggest looking for a local chapter and finding out if someone in it is also an embroiderer. They are a great resource. Here is a link to their site: https://www.asg.org/ Even though your dealer won't let you take beginner classes, you might see what else they offer. Do they have an embroidery group or club meeting there? If they do, this could be a place to find yourself a mentor or teacher.
Your machine manual can be very useful to support any learning you are doing. If you don't have it, you can get a download of it from Brother: http://support.brother.com/g/b/manualtop.aspx?c=us...
Embroidery.com maintains a list of local embroidery-related classes that you might skim through and see if any are near and of interest: http://embroidery.com/machine-embroidery-events.ec

Craftsy has several good embroidery classes. The most basic is probably "20 Things Every Embroiderer Should Know" by Lindee Goodall. https://www.craftsy.com/embroidery/shop/embroidery...

Another good resource is Youtube. Just about everything seems to be on there, if you can only find it! One big name in Brother embroidery machines is Vince Arcuri. He probably has a long, detailed video about everything. Here is a link to a beginner one:

Best wishes!

Hi, Sandra. Thanks for writing. You can easily add a new machine to your Embroidery.com by looking up the machine in our embroidery machine database. Make sure you're logged in. Then click where it says...

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The machine will be added to your preference and your old machine will not be removed unless you do so.

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