Archive for 'Embird Tips' Category

Digitizing with Embird Studio

Do you digitize with Embird Studio or perhaps you want to begin digitizing with Studio but find it a bit intimidating.   As with any software program, Studio has a bit of a learning curve, but not too much.  But there is always the necessity for a bit of help, isn’t there?   I have just uploaded [...]

Embird Tie-Off Stitches

Tie-off stitches are necessary to keep the thread from missing stitches or pulling out as you embroider, as well as keeping the design from unravelling at the ends. It is very poor digitizing to eliminate tie-off stitches; they can be edited in either Studio or Editor to change the tie-offs to a suitable position or [...]

Uninstalled Fonts and Windows 7

If you are working with either a 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 platform, by now you realize that you can no longer minimize a font to the bottom toolbar and then work with it as if it was an installed font.  That is a feature in all previous versions of Windows that, for some reason, [...]

Windows 7 and Embird Iconizer – Viewing Icons Solution

There are two versions of Windows 7: 32 bit and 64 bit. If you are not sure which version you have, right click on the computer icon on your desktop > properties. Check the system type in the general tab to see which version you have. If you have the 32-bit version, Iconizer will show [...]

Quilting and Embroidery

Combining quilting and embroidery is actually combining the best of both worlds. By adding embroidery to a quilt, a wall hanging or a quilted project, you take it from ”ho hum” to the “oh my, isn’t that wonderful” type of project where everyone wants to know how you ever created such a wonderful project. However, [...]

Embird Tip – Searching for Designs

There are all sorts of hidden “goodies” within Embird that are not well known.   One is the search function.   At the top right panel in the Manager screen, there is a magnifying glass with the letter “F” in the centre.   This is your search icon and is helpful to find files where you know the [...]

.dst files and Embird

.dst files are commercial files and, as such, they have colour stops, not colour changes. When you open your first .dst file you are going to wonder whatever is wrong – but that is normal, because of the colour stops. The colours will have to be changed to the colours of your choice and then [...]

Embird Tip – Remember Background Colour

One of the little known features in Embird Manager is “remember background colour”. If you have a definite colour that you wish to have as a background for one design, but the remainder of your designs to have the default white background, under colour palette there is the option to remember background colour. Open a [...]

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 [...]

Embird Tip – Hoop Options in Editor

When working with designs in Editor, you do have the option of changing your hoop colour as well as the grid colour and size of grid for both the workspace and when printing a design. I find that a very light beige for the hoop with a very dark grey for the gridlines seems to [...]