While limited in scope, it’s VERY good at what it does. And check THIS out! They also offer a mobile version – for free – so you can resize images on the go! Ha! How cool is that? It downloads very cleanly without any hidden malware/spyware (frequently found in freeware) or extra advertising crap. It looks and operates just like Word in Microsoft Office so it’s super easy to use. This software is so up-to-date (I’ve already received software updates from the company…for the Free version no less!) and it’s very user friendly. What I came to require was 1) The software should resize without screwing up the stitch density or making the design all wonky 2) The code shouldn’t look like it was written in Windows 98 3) It would actually work on Windows 7 4) It needs to be user friendly and last but not least, 5)It should be FREE! After much searching the interweb, lo and behold in an embroidery user forum the search was over: Welcome Wilcom TruSizer! There’s a lot of freeware out there and some of them are very good at some things, and not so good at others. I’ll just say that not all embroidery software is created equal. I’m a techy kind of girl so it shouldn’t be a problem, I’d need some software – and I didn’t want to pay for it. Maybe they think it’s intuitive? I dunno but I was very frustrated until I figured it out. OK…so? What it DOESN’T say (Brother, please take note) is that files larger than the hoop size cannot be used on the machine. I went digging through the User Guide and it only mentioned that the hoop size on the PE770 was 130mm x 180mm. “Whaaaat? Where the heck are they?” Commence hair pulling… They simply wouldn’t show up on the screen.

However, when I attempted to transfer those files into my machine using the USB drive, the machine couldn’t “see” the files. So I went blindly along buying cool PES design files.

Brother (and Baby Lock) embroidery design files are in the PES format and I quickly figured out that all machine brands have their own format. One of the “newby” assumptions I made when I first got my Brother-PE770 Embroidery Machine was that any and all PES design files would work with the machine.

Pes embroidery design