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Are You A Newbie To Machine Embroidery And "Stuck"?

Having problems downloading designs on our site or getting them to stitch out and look right? This is a "newbie's guide" to help folks who are just getting started or are stuck and need a quick helping hand.

Artistic ThreadWorks is a "club" and besides the embroidery designs we offer our members detailed how-to articles and videos covering every aspect of machine embroidery. The answer to your questions may well be on this page. if it's not here, we will still try to help or direct you to the right solution, but joining our club and going through the TUTORIALS section on our menu will probably answer questions you haven't even thought of yet along with the ones you do come up with.

Machine Embroidery Terms Dictionary
Machine embroidery terms dictionary. Thanks to our members for their help in assembling the words to be listed here.
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QUESTIONS ABOUT DOWNLOADING EMBROIDERY DESIGNS
To download an embroidery design set from the web, you normally click on the "download link". It usually says something like "DOWNLOAD ALL FORMATS HERE" on our website. Othe . . . Click to continue...

UNZIPPING DESIGNS
When you download an embroidery design, it is normally inside a "zip" folder. Step one is to "extract" the embroidery designs from the zip folder. p . . . Click to continue...

EMBROIDERY DESIGN FORMATS
The files you extract from our zip folders will normally be in several formats. Different brands of machine use different formats and the ones we include are the most common forma . . . Click to continue...

UNWANTED FORMATS
You can keep the formats you don't currently use for future use in case you buy another brand of embroidery machines, or you can delete the unwanted formats. It takes about 30 sec . . . Click to continue...

THREAD COLOR CHARTS
When you download an embroidery design you usually find the file that goes into your embroidery machine and another file that is either a simple word processor file that ends in ".txt", . . . Click to continue...

TRANSFERRING DESIGNS TO YOUR EMBROIDERY MACHINE
Once the design zip file is saved on your computer and the files are extracted to their own folder, you are ready to move those files to your embroidery machine. HOW you get desig . . . Click to continue...

CAN'T SEE EMBROIDERY DESIGNS ON YOUR COMPUTER?
Many people want to SEE the embroidery designs that are stored on their computer. Software that allows you to view an embroidery design is not included with Windows. You nee . . . Click to continue...

STITCHING OUT DESIGNS
Once the embroidery design is transferred to your embroidery machine you can sew it out. If you have problems stitching out a design from our website, it is very likely that the problem . . . Click to continue...

HOW DOES ARTISTIC THREADWORKS CLUB MEMBERSHIP WORK?
Our website contains more than 20,000 embroidery designs and new ones are released every week for our club members. The site has more than 6,500 pages of "content" consisting of w . . . Click to continue...

CAN'T LOGIN TO OUR WEBSITE?
Our main website is artisticthreadworks.com It is a "club" website where members of the club pay a very modest membership fee and then create their own login username . . . Click to continue...

ARE YOU A MEMBER OF OUR CLUB?
Members of our club do not need to wait for an email to download designs. They can go to our club website and access the designs via the "DESIGNS" menus at any time. There are sev . . . Click to continue...

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Following are the questions we hear most often from folks who are new to machine embroidery or new to our website. Most of these question . . . Click to continue...