Archive for 'Digitizing Tips and Hints' Category

Digitizing Made Easy – Or is it Easy?

Digitizing your own designs can be both fun and addictive, can’t it? You can sit peacefully for hours enjoying digitizing your own designs. But then chaos ensues and that “perfect design” turns into a nightmare. You don’t know what went wrong, spend hours trying to redo it, and are just about ready to give up. [...]

How to Stabilize Embroidery Designs

Stabilization is a tricky and complicated part of machine embroidery; but it is also the underlying foundation of good embroidery. Without proper stabilization, designs may pucker or sag and outlines may be off, stitches may sink into the fabric or fabric might poke through the stitching. Stabilization is the one area of embroidery that causes [...]

Cutwork Embroidery by Machine

Cutwork embroidery is a beautiful form of needlework where portions of the background fabric are cut away and discarded, with the edges worked over in satin stitching. There are many kinds of cutwork. The simplest form of cutwork is that which contains small open areas, such as eyelets, with no connecting bars.  Richelieu embroidery is [...]

Digitizing and Clipart

It doesn’t really matter which program you digitize with, the most important thing for those of us who have limited artistic talent when it comes to clipart is where to find not only reasonably-priced but also good quality clipart.   Another very important criteria is the fact that it will not be clipart that is being [...]

Software Utilities you can't live without – in living colour!

Colour Coding and Adding Images to Folders Are you a very organized person? Do you like to colour-code all of your folders at work or at home by importance or colour order? If you find it easier to work with folders or files if you visually organize your paper work, did you know that you [...]

Embroidery Tip – How many Stitches in a spool of thread.

  Have you ever wondered how many stitches one can get from a spool of thread? With the permission of Jeanne Smith-Huckaba (who provided this information), the following is a handy little chart of the average number of stitches based upon 40 weight thread.       1 King Spool 5,500 yds or 5,000m 1,000,000 [...]

Computer Tip – Copy and Paste

How many times have you heard someone say “copy and paste”? Well, it really is very easy to copy and paste files, graphics, anything you may wish to copy from the original file, document, design or anything else on your computer or from the net to a new location. The idea behind the process is [...]

Raster versus Vector Images – Using Graphics in Embird Studio

Now that sounds like an ancient Greek family tragedy or a Shakespeare play, doesn’t it? But it really isn’t, it is just two types of graphic formats. As you know, digitizing is more than putting nodes on a computer screen, it involves using graphics as background images that can be digitized over. When using background [...]

Puffy Foam Embroidery

Would you believe this adorable scarecrow is a simple appliqué design combined with puffy fill underneath the clothing? A combination of appliqué and puffy foam creates unique one-of-a-kind designs that you cannot achieve with just embroidery. The fabric choices rather than large embroidery fills allow you to embroider unusual and outstanding designs. Puffy foam embroidery [...]

Embroidery Tip – After the Design is Embroidered

Embird Detail Documentation Did you know that you can add your own logo to Embird and it will print with the detail documentation? Did you also know if you use file summary the file summary information will be added to the detail documentation? If you are sending a design to someone, this extra information is [...]