Would it be so much harder to post them in a 5x7 size? Many more of us would be able to use the designs if they were already sized for our machines.

i tryed but can't use wilcom either but i can resize things myself lol hugs carolyn

The general rule is that you shouldn't resize more than 20%. And even then you should test stitch it first.

It's best to size the art first and then digitize it.

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by sewmom 23 Jul 2011

I have also found that some machines may call a certain size 5x7 but it's actually a little smaller or larger. So katulle might not realize that it's not fitting your machine.

I stitched out her beautiful ballerina (the one with the big tutu and black swirls on it). It is a fairly large design, so I downsized it to fit on a child's size 4 t-shirt. Changing the size really messed up the beautiful black swirls. I don't know if making it bigger will mess up anything.

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by faerynutt 23 Jul 2011

I use Bernina Software made by Wilcom you have to check off a box in order to get it to save the different type of fill stitches. At least with Bernina you do, I will try and remember how to do it and explain (I'm away from my computer). When you click on the file to open the design, don't actually open anything just highlight one of the designs, you will see the Options (I think that is what it's called, bottom box) will stop being grayed out, it will bring up another box and you will click on the second box (I hope this is right) and save. This should keep all the decerative fill stitches correct in resizing. Hope I remembered it right :)

With wilcom, you open the design and then (hover over the icons along the top with your mouse until you dind the right one!) That will give you a box round the design so you can drag one of the corners in or out to resize. Save again in your format. Watch out though, this doesn't change the stitch count so you can go very far in either direction.

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