Thanks alleyoop1 and dd for your opinions and advice...I did a you tube search as you suggested. Tell me, do I have to use a hoop and if so, my Bernina doesn't have anything to attach to the hoop (it's not an embroidery model machine) so would it be okay just to have it "sitting" on the bed of the machine? As the machine does decorative stitches and different alphabets I'm presuming I don't need to have a hoop "attached". The only you tubes I could find with my machine featured only shows how to select the letters and fonts etc, not how to actually "do it"!