I am using a brother CS 6000 it is not an embrodering machine. I did the tiger free hand I found a tiger I likes on the net and blew it up to a 8 by 10 size. Then I projected it on my wall and traced it out on to wax paper. Next I out lined it and filled in the tiger. By the way the fabric is acualy the back not the front (I used a scrap from the one with the roses on it.)