Archives by Tag 'Digitizing'

Embroidery – Why are my outlines off?

A very common question that always arises is, “Why are my outlines off?” And, no, it isn’t just you, there are a lot of folks who have problems with outlines being off. Sometimes the outlines may be off on the entire design, or perhaps just on one side. If you find your outline is always [...]

Thanksgiving Day in Canada

Canadians, it seems, are a very quiet patriots, and at times it can seem we aren’t proud to be Canadians, but look at a group of Canadians when the first bars of “O Canada” begin to play! Oh, yes, we are proud to be Canadians!  Our Canadian Thanksgiving is on October 13 this year, as [...]

.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 [...]

Embroidery Stabilizers – What Type Should I Use?

Finding the correct type of stabilizer for embroidery can sometimes be a mystery as to what you should use and at other times be completely frustrating. When home embroidery machines first became popular, we didn’t have very many stabilizers to choose from and resorted to using some very exotic and different stabilizers, such as coffee [...]

Computer Utilities – CCleaner and Filebox Extender

Over the past few days I have been fighting a mysterious Trojan horse infection on my computer.   It was bad enough that I had to have my computer sent off to a tech for two days to remove the viruses.  Normally I don’t have problems with viruses, but this infection was really, really, really extensive!  [...]

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 [...]

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 – Reading, Talking and Learning!

These may not be the three “R’s” that you knew as a child in school, but one of the most important things you can do when learning about your embroidery machine or  accessories for the machine, find suggestions as to how to embroider a project you are working on, perhaps a good type of stabilizer [...]

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 [...]

Embroidery Tip – Fighting the "Itchies"

Have you ever embroidered the perfect design for a child and when they  tried it on, you heard, “Grandma (or Mom), it itches, I can’t wear  that!”   The garment is then put carefully back in the drawer to spend its life in total darkness!  And if you are honest with yourself, do you have a [...]