PE-770 (Review & Ideas for Beginners)

Hey all, today’s topic is all about my new PE-770 Brother Embroidery machine. I’m so in love with the machine and hence this blog! As I’m more into hand embroidery I thought I’ll give a try with the machine embroidery once. Finally ended up buying my PE-770! 

 I must say it’s one of the best machines. I could be saying this as it’s my first machine too. I’m not going to talk about technicalities of the machine, but functionalities and its decorative uses. 

It’s a 5x7” hoop size machine. Any design which fits the size of the hoop, you are fine. The machine itself has got a lot of inbuilt designs which includes fonts, flowers, borders, animals, birds etc.
so it’s up to you how you are going to utilize them and come up with your own design. You can literally play on the machine if you are passionate about embroidery. 

My Embroidery using PE-770

Apart from the inbuilt designs you have on the machine; you can also go ahead and purchase the free designs from various websites available. My favourite websites are Emblibrary.com, Designsbyjuju, amazingdesigns.com, embroideryonline.com. But now before buying them I would advise you to go and purchase the free designs available on these websites. You can find them on the menu as freebies or free designs. You got to select the size for your design, and the format. Here I get it on PES format. Once you buy the designs, your email will direct you as to how to download the designs. Once downloaded onto your computer, you will have to extract the folder.  Once extracted start deleting other formats except PES in the folder and transfer the same to a USB (memory stick, flash drive). Now you are all set to go ahead & start embroidering using your machine.

Embroidery Design downloaded for free.

Other factor which needs to be considered is how to select a stabilizer.

It’s an important material used to support the stitches on the fabric, giving the grip to sit tight. There are different types such as light weight, medium weight, and heavy weight etc. Most preferred is medium weight stabilizer. Again something like tear away, cut away, self-adhesive, water soluble, fuse & tear are available. Most preferred is tear away. So go for a medium weight, tear away stabilizer. When you don’t buy a self-adhesive stabilizer you need an external thing to help stabilizer stick to the fabric. Hence fabric adhesive spray is required.

Things to buy along with the machine -
* Embroidery Thread pack (I use Exquisite)
* Special Embroidery Bobbin thread (Available in Joann)
* Stabilizer (Preferably medium weight, tear away Stabilizer)
* 505 spray & fix temporary fabric adhesive (Available in Joann)
* Of course the fabric

I decided to blog about machine embroidery because I myself had a lot of doubts before using it. So helping people like me.  

You can buy all the necessary stuff from http://www.joann.com/It’s one of my favourite place. Rather my paradise. :)

-KS