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How to Download our designs

All of our designs come in a digital format.

After your purchase a design you will receive two emails.

The first email is just to confirm the purchase and the second email will contain a link to your digital files. ( check your junk folder if the second email doesn’t arrive )

You can also log into your registered account on our website where you will be able to view and download all your purchased designs.  (Please note that simply purchasing from our website does not set up an account for you.  You need to open one if you want one).

Its a good idea to save all your Sweet Pea design files into a special folder on your computer all of its own. This will help make it easier for you to locate the files in the future.

See our Blog post for more information:

https://swpea.me/2016/08/02/how-to-download-our-designs/

How to Download our designs

All of our designs come in a digital format.

After your purchase a design you will receive two emails.

The first email is just to confirm the purchase and the second email will contain a link to your digital files. ( check your junk folder if the second email doesn’t arrive )

You can also log into your registered account on our website where you will be able to view and download all your purchased designs.  (Please note that simply purchasing from our website does not set up an account for you.  You need to open one if you want one).

Log in to your account on the website.  Click on "

Click here for my Downloadable Files/Order History"

Its a good idea to save all your Sweet Pea design files into a special folder on your computer all of its own. This will help make it easier for you to locate the files in the future.

See our Blog post for more information:

https://swpea.me/2016/08/02/how-to-download-our-designs/

The free coffee mug and love cottage files are only available to our closed face book group members in the files section on the groups page .

The free cocktail mug rug is only available to our closed Facebook German group members in the files section on the group's page ).

You are welcome to join both groups

The Main Closed Sweet Pea Facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1376828489304731/

The German Closed Sweet Pea Facebook Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1597802590470897/

If you are having problems downloading the design files please try refreshing your pc by clearing it's cache/ browsing history and restart it before trying again. A full cache ( memory) can affect your device's functioning and may cause downloading problems.

Some browsers ie Internet Explorer also seem to be a bit problematic so another suggestion would be to try using a completely different web browser eg Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Microsoft Edge.

You can also download directly from your account on the website rather than the link in the email.  

We are Australia so all our instructions come in English ( we also supply German Instructions for our large German customer base).

The English instructions will be in the list of files but no not have the words 'English" in the file title.

Please read this article on how to download our files and instructions

https://swpea.me/2016/08/02/how-to-download-our-designs/

This is the link to the 'archiving ' program on MAC that you can download our digital files with,   http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/Using-The-Archive-Utility-Gain-Control-Of-Your-Macs-Compression-Options.htm

Our files are digital downloads that can be downloaded onto computers and laptops.

They can be downloaded onto ipads but you will need special programs.

Try  an app called Airstitch, it's free.

When you hit download, open in Airstitch. Then you can email it to yourself. Or get a wireless USB called airstash (bought off amazon) then take your designs from Airstitch and move them to Airstash USB  and plug into your embroidery machine. 

If you save the PDF instructions to your ipad you should be able to read them on your ipad using ibooks

How to Change File Associations in Windows 10, 8, 7, or Vista

Note: Setting a program's default file association does not restrict other programs that support the file type from working with them in other situations. More on this at the bottom of the page.

1. Open Control Panel. In Windows 10 & Windows 8, the Power User Menu (WIN+X) is the quickest way in. Try the Start Menu in Windows 7 or Vista.
   
   See How to Open Control Panel for more details if you're having trouble finding it. 
2. Tap or click on the Programs link.
   
   Note: You'll only see this link if you're on the Category or Control Panel Home view of Control Panel. Otherwise, tap or click Default Programs instead, followed by Associate a file type or protocol with a program link. Skip to Step 4. 

1. Tap or click the Make a file type always open in a specific program link, located under the Default Programs heading. 
2. Once the Set Associations tool loads, which should only take a second or two, scroll down the list until you see the file extension that you want to change the default program for. 
3. Tap or click on the file extension to highlight it.
   

1. Tap or click the Change program... button, located just above the scroll bar. 
2. What you see next, and the next step to take, depends on what version of Windows you're using. See What Version of Windows Do I Have? if you're not sure which set of instructions to follow.
   
   Windows 10 & 8: From the "How do you want to open this [file extension] file from now on?" window you see now, look through the programs and apps in Other options and find, and then tap or click on, the program you'd like to open when you double-click or double-tap these types of files. Try more apps for the complete list.
   
   Windows 7 & Vista: From the "Open with" window that popped up, look through the programs listed and choose the one you'd like to open for this extension. The Recommended Programs are probably the most applicable, but there may be Other Programs listed too. 
3. Tap or click the OK button.
   
   ​Windows will refresh the list of file associations to show the new default program assigned to this file type. You can close the Set Associations window if you're done making changes. 
4. From this point forward, when you double-click or double-tap on any file with this particular file extension, the program you chose to associate with it in Step 7 will automatically launch and load the particular file.

First of all and most importantly please note that simply purchasing from our website does not set up an account for you.  You need to open one if you want one.  Also even if you receive a newsletter from us that does not mean you have opened an account on the website. 

Then enter your email address and your password.

If you can't remember your password please click on the forgot your password link and we will send you a link to reset your password.  The link email will be sent to the email address that the account is registered under.

First of all and most importantly please note that simply purchasing from our website does not set up an account for you.  You need to open one if you want one.  Also even if you receive a newsletter from us that does not mean you have opened an account on the website. 

Once you have an account on the website you can log in by clicking on the log in button at the top right hand side of the website.

Then enter your email address and your password.

If you can't remember your password please click on the forgot your password link and we will send you a link to reset your password.  The link email will be sent to the email address that the account is registered under.

To reset your password.
1. click log in button on webpage www.swpea.com
2.enter  your email address
3.leave 'password' section empty
4. Click "forgot your password'
5. enter your email address
6. hit submit button
7. allow up to 30 minutes for email to arrive with reset "URL" link
8. click on link in email and you will be taken to a page to reset your password.
9. enter your new password and then enter it again to confirm

Sweet Pea is an Australian Business and whilst our website shows our designs in Australian dollars you can easily change the prices shown to your own currency using our ‘currency selector’ at the top of our website.

Whilst your ‘cart’ will display your purchase in the currency you choose, you will check out using Australian dollars    ( AUD) at the most current exchange rate.

Your purchase will still come out of your actual bank account in your own currency.

follow these easy steps

Sweet Pea machine embroidery designs is based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

​All these designs are being sold in good faith.  If you have any problems or are not happy with them please let us know and we will rectify them.  If this is not possible we will refund the purchase cost to you without further delay.  It is our intention to offer you the best service always and for our designs to be of the highest quality in the market.  All photos are actual photos of the items actually sewn not representations.

We accept Paypal or credit card only. 

Your digital file link will be emailed to you at the email address you supply during checkout.

You won't be charged shipping for our designs as they are a digital file which we email to you.

Please see our blog article on how to download your designs.

https://swpea.me/2016/08/02/how-to-download-our-designs/

You can use a calculator on the web.

Here is one we have tried.

http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/length/cm-to-inch.htm

4x4 = 100mm x 100mm

5x7 =  130mm x 180mm

6x10 = 160mm x 260mm

7x12 = 180mm x 300mm

8x12 = 200mm x 300mm

8x8 = 200mm x 200mm

9x12 = 230mm x 300mm

9.5x14 = 240mm x 360mm

Here are some Phone sizes for you (No guarantees – taken from a website):

• iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s.: 58.6 x 115.2 (2.31 x 4.54)
• iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s.: 58.6 x 123.8 (2.31 x 4.87)
• iPhone 6: 67 x 138.1 (2.64 x 5.44)
• iPhone 6plus: 77.8 x 158.1 (3.06 x 6.22)
• Gallaxy S6: 70.5 x 143.4 (2.77 x 5.64)
• Gallaxy S5: 73 x 142 (2.87 x 5.59)
• Gallaxy S7: 70 x 142 (2.75 x 5.59)
• Gallexy S7 Edge: 73 x 151 (2.84 x 5.94)
• Sony Experia Z3: 72 x 146 (2.83 x 5.75)
• Sony Experia Z5 Premium: 76 x 154.4 (2.99 x 6.08)

Making quilts is such an individual thing, there are so many variables. It is therefore impossible for us to give accurate measurements.

The easiest way for you to calculate the fabric needed is to first decide how big the quilt should be. This in itself varies between quilt makers as everyone want the quilts to hang at different lengths over their beds.

After you have worked out how big the finished quilt is to be, you need to work out how many of the  blocks you will need. The finished block ends up measuring about 1/2 " smaller  ( width and length) of the hoop that you use to make the blocks.

We give the fabric requirements for the blocks in the instructions, so after you work out how many finished blocks you need for the quilt you just have to multiply the number by the amount of fabric stated in the instructions.

Making quilts is such an individual thing, there are so many variables. It is therefore impossible for us to give accurate measurements.

We don't give finished sizes of our quilts as it depends on how many blocks you use and the finished size of the quilt you need.

You can make the quilts as large as you like. The finished hoop sizes are approx 1/2 inch smaller than the hoop used. So you just need to divide the finished quilt size you need by the size of the finished block.

All Sweet Pea designs (except FSL earrings) come with an instruction sheet full of colour photos and written directions. You can print off these pages or just follow them from your computer screen.

The instructions come in both English and German and in Word and PDF formats for you to choose from.

For FSL earrings you can see our Blog post on sewing FSL 

https://swpea.me/2015/07/01/how-to-sew-fsl-free-standing-lace/

All designs remain the property of Sweet Pea Machine Embroidery.  They may not be copied or reproduced in any way.

The design files may not be sold or shared

The finished articles made with our designs may be sold .

All designs remain the property of Sweet Pea Machine Embroidery. 

The design files may not be copied or reproduced in any way.  The design files may not be sold or shared

The finished articles made with Sweet Pea Machine embroidery designs may be sold

We don't have instructional videos on all our products .

We do make instructional videos for our sew-a-long projects.

You will find that the instructions with photos that we send you are exactly the same quality as the videos. 

The guide that the software gives is you can probably enlarge most designs up to 20% but really it is up to you to try and test it.

We don't support enlargements in any way as errors can be introduced into the design. 

If the design does stop between steps it probably is because you are opening the design in your embroidery software.

We are finding a lot of embroidery software changes the designs by trying to 'rearrange' our coloured design steps. These coloured steps are designed to stop the machine between steps.

When the file is opened in embroidery software you run the risk of ruining the order of the stitching.

Please just try to copy the file straight to your machine via the usb cable or stick.

All our designs come as a digital download not a cd

Designs come in all formats except ART. Bernina's can use EXP. Formats pes, hus, sew, xxx, jef, vp3, vip, mit, dat, dst, exp etc.

All formats are included with your purchase. 

Please read this article on downloading our designs

https://swpea.me/2016/08/02/how-to-download-our-designs/

To receive your discount your friend will need to use the link to our website that would have been emailed to you when you clicked on 'refer a friend".

Once your friend purchases something going through to our website via the link, their purchase will be linked to you and you will then receive your discount .

REFER A FRIEND

Our dear Allison quilt blocks are based on the famous Dear Jane Quilt .    Jane A. Stickle started creating the quilt during the civil war, completed over 169 blocks in 1863. The sampler quilt comprised of ‘169 square blocks. 4 pieced corner triangles, 52 pieced border triangles . We are going to be making a Dear Allison quilt with a different quilt block released each week.  You don't have to make the whole quilt of course, you can use as many blocks as you like.   Also the idea of this quilt is to use each block once but you could include multiple of the same block if you choose. 

The blocks are pieced where possible and some applique where necessary.  They are quilted in the hoop.

Full photo instructions and directions on how to sew the block are included with your purchase .

This is the  link https://swpea.com/search?q=dear+allison