In this video I’m working with Lori Holt’s free Chicken Salad appliqué bird pattern, and I’m showing you the easy way I reduce the finished bird size by 20% right on my Bernina 790+ embroidery machine. I stitch my birds out in software first, then I use the embroidery machine to scale them down in the Maxi hoop. Honestly, it makes life so much easier when you want the design a touch smaller but you don’t want to rework everything from scratch. I also chat about what to do if you’ve got a smaller hoop than the Maxi. The process is the same in principle, but you may prefer resizing in software (and I point you to my next video where I resize the birds in Brother Canvas to whatever hoop you’re using). And yes—classic me—I managed to end up working on a bird that wasn’t Percy at all, then made it worse by spelling Percy wrong. So there’s a bit of unpicking and renaming in my future, but the appliqué method stays exactly the same.