I Did It!!!!!!!
Well, mostly. I've never done applique with the embroidery machine (actually, I've only done one applique in my life), and while I love the cleverness of the designs in the set Andy gave me for Christmas, the instructions do presume a level of basic knowledge which I don't have. I was hoping for some suggestions on what type of material to use, as a few minutes with Google only turned up a suggestion not to use fabric that is "too" prone to ravel. Satin is prone to raveling, but I wasn't sure if it ravels "too" much or just enough, but as I couldn't think of anything else to use--nor find anything sort of shiny that ravels less. In the example, they did color changes with the thread AND used two colors of fabric. I decided to stick with just one for now, as the design wasn't too specific about how it was going to work. I pulled the design up with my embroidery software and walked through the design, so I knew that it used thread c...