Sewing and embroidery machine guides for the US and Canada

Start from what you want to make. Every guide cites the maker's documents, draws embroidery fields to scale, and works in inches or millimetres.

Start from your project

What you want to do	Where to look	Topic
Names and monograms on towels, baby gifts	Your first embroidery machine	Embroidery Machines
Logos on caps, patches to sell	Machines for hats and caps	Embroidery Machines
Starting a small embroidery business	Choosing a machine to sell your work	Embroidery Machines
Making patches, or sewing them on	Machines for patches	Embroidery Machines
A design file will not open on my machine	File formats, machine by machine	Embroidery Machines
Quilting at home	Choosing a sewing machine for quilting	Sewing Machines
Quilts bigger than a throw	Longarms and quilting frames	Sewing Machines

Specifications from the maker's manual and spec sheet, with the date we checked them.
Embroidery fields and hoops drawn to scale, in inches or millimetres.
What fits what: hoops, feet, bobbins and file formats, machine by machine.
No tests of our own, and we say so on every buying guide. How we research