sewingpup

I want to start embroidery again. In the past, I have used many Viking machines and bought most of my designs from Viking. So now I have a Bernina 590 and want to use some of my old designs on it. OK, I have transferred some of old designs from CD's to Thumb Drives and the files show up on my machine and I can open them up. On other CD's I can't seem to do this. I know that some machines can read different file extensions and I have been selecting the .PES files from the CD's where available. Some discs don't have this option. Anyway, it is confusing as to which design collections I may be able to use on my new machine. I even have some old design collections on floppy discs. I haven't tried those yet. I have even thought of attaching an external CD drive to the USB port of the 590. I actually did this back a few years ago on a Viking SE and it worked. As I have not embroidered anything for a few years, I feel like a fish out of water. Anyone have any words of wisdom. The shop I bought my Bernina from really does not provide much support on using the machines at all. I have attempted to take their three-class embroidery class 3 times. The first time, the design she emailed us to download on a thumb drive did not work. The next two classes she offered were cancelled she said because not enough people signed up. I recently downloaded an embroidery mastery workbook from the Bernina website which stated that it was intended to be used by the dealer in the classes we were supposed to get. So... I am just going to dig in and try and work my way through the workbook myself.