Your design library, and letting buyers pick from it

The Designs page is your library of stitch files. Each design holds its file, a photo or a preview of how it stitches, its true stitched size, and your notes about which thread colors you used last time. That alone earns its keep: a reorder six months later stops being a hunt through folders.

The library also does a second job that is easy to miss. Designs from it can appear on your shop page, so a buyer picks a design they like, picks a garment, and orders the combination — without you drawing up a new product for every possible pairing.

Why a design is not showing up for buyers

This is the most common question about the library, and the answer is always one of two things. A design is only offered to buyers when both are true.

First, it needs something to show. That means either a photo you uploaded of the design stitched out, or a rendered preview of the stitch file. A buyer will not order a design they cannot see.

Second, its true stitched size has to be filled in — the real width and height it sews at. Without the size, Broidry cannot tell whether the design physically fits where the buyer wants to put it, and it would rather offer nothing than let someone order a five-inch design for a spot that holds three.

You almost never have to measure that yourself. Upload the design's stitch file and Broidry reads the real size and stitch count straight out of it and fills both in. That works for Brother (.pes), Tajima (.dst), Melco and Bernina (.exp), Janome (.jef), and Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff (.vp3 and .hus) — so whatever machine you run, the file you already send to it is the file that answers this. If you have typed a size in yourself, uploading a file never overwrites it; it only fills in what is blank.

Which products a design can go on

Each design carries a list of the products it may be ordered on, which you set on the design itself. Everything except hats is allowed to start with, because most library designs are too large or sit wrong on a hat front. If a design does work on a hat, tick the hat on yourself.

On top of your list, Broidry runs its own size check. When a buyer picks a design, any garment whose stitchable area cannot hold that design at its true size is switched off in front of them. So a design that is genuinely too big for a spot can never be ordered onto it, even if you left the product ticked.