This hands-on walkthrough follows the Baby Lock Verve from first threading to a finished monogrammed towel, then switches into sewing mode to test thick denim, knits, overcasting, and a clean mending method. Along the way, you’ll get the practical prep most beginners skip, the checkpoints that prevent misplacement and puckering, and the small workflow upgrades that make combo machines feel fast instead of fussy.

This hands-on tutorial shows how to bring Pfaff sewing-mode ribbon stitches into embroidery mode on the Pfaff Creative Icon 2, build a continuous stitch line in Sequence Creator, size and center it for a 260x200 hoop, and execute the critical stop-and-fold ribbon routine in-the-hoop for clean, straight ribbon borders. You’ll also get pro-level prep, stabilizer logic, safety notes, and workflow upgrades that make this technique faster and more consistent.

This hands-on workflow shows how to take a built-in Brother ScanNCut SDX 325 wreath design, resize it to 5.50 inches, cut fabric with HeatnBond Lite on a Low Tack mat, convert the resulting FCM into a true appliqué embroidery file (PES) in BES4 (or Embrilliance Stitch Artist 2 on Mac), and then stitch it cleanly on a thick, pre-quilted Kimberbell Cuties table topper using a magnetic hoop—complete with stop commands, stitch-order control, and the common “why did my bow move?” fix.

This practical walkthrough turns a “where did my files go?” moment into a repeatable system: create one master project folder, extract zipped embroidery files correctly, copy only the formats you actually need, and load/merge a background quilting design with an embroidery layer on a Brother Innov-is using the Add function—plus the real-world pitfalls that trip beginners and the small upgrades that save serious time on big quilt projects.