Originally Posted by
sylviak
I love this thread since I just purchased a Brother PE 770, but I have a bunch of questions! I'll start with just one, LOL!
My EM uses a flash drive to obtain patterns from the internet, but I have no way to organize them! I've been having them sent unzipped by email from which I can put them on my flash drive and then on the EM. I store these in a file on my email account. I print the color change and picture off for each one (lots of work). The pattern shows up as a black "blob" on my machine, then the areas being emb. show up as smaller black blobs. I've been looking at Amazing Designs "Catalog It" and it looks like just what I need. Does anyone use this and how do you get it from the catalog program to the machine? Flash drive? I'm sure considering buying it before I collect anymore patterns!
Sylviac, congratulations on your machine! I have a Brother PE-770 and love it! Never a problem.
As for the designs, I bought something that turns files into icons, but I can't remember what it was. It was around $25. There are lots of Yahoo Embroidery groups and one of them -- I think it's DesignsbySiCK -- has a downloadable file that consists of category folders. It sure is a time saver. I use Windows 7 Professional so I just set up another "Library" called Embroidery. Have fun with your new machine!