What an adorable little design. You can buy the smallest for sure. Are you learning???
Christine..........the first thing I do is look at their "License use" clause so I know I can digitize it, then I download mine in jpg or bmp format and I never worry about size as I always resize them to the hoop I want to use when I pull them into the digi software........
I too take the jpg or bmp in the any size. It's when you are using an autodigitising program that you have to worry about size.