How to get an embroidery design on a computer
If you're new to the world of machine embroidery, one of the first things you'll need to understand is how to get embroidery designs onto your computer. Why - you…
How to set up a monogram for machine embroidery
Perhaps one of the reasons why you bought an embroidery machine was to be able to add monograms to home decor and clothing items. That’s certainly a good reason, and…
Best embroidery digitizing software
After stitching out dozens of designs on your embroidery machine, are you beginning to crave the ability to make your own embroidery designs? I mean - how great would it…
Embroidery vs appliqué designs – what’s the difference?
When you're deciding on a design for your next project, it's important to know the difference between embroidery vs appliqué designs. Both of these file types can be used to…
How to convert an embroidery design to SVG
Do you have an embroidery design in an embroidery file format (such as PES, EXP, JEF, etc...) that you love and wonder if could be turned into an SVG file…
How to work with machine embroidery fonts
There are tons of different styles of machine embroidery fonts available that will help you achieve your desired aesthetic. But what are they? Where do you find them? And, how…
How to covert a TTF font into embroidery
I know that you are thinking. Your embroidery machine came with a few different typefaces but they are starting to get old, quickly. You have so many cool fonts on…
What are BX fonts for machine embroidery?
Are you stitching out a lot of names with your embroidery machine? If so, have you noticed how tedious it is to assemble all of the different letters together to…
How to organize machine embroidery designs
If you are a true embroidery geek, you probably collect A LOT of embroidery and appliqué designs, especially when there are so many great sources for free ones. But, once…
What are machine embroidery file formats?
Machine embroidery is an interesting practice. While its all about craft, creativity, and making something tangible, it is also a bit technical, requiring you to manage and manipulate the digital…
What is stitch density in machine embroidery?
When I first started digitizing, I experimented a lot with stitch density. I saw the setting right there in my digitizing software, but I had no idea what is should…
How to get an embroidery design on an embroidery machine?
If you are new to machine embroidery, like maybe you haven’t even taken the embroidery machine out of the box it arrived in, you may wonder how to get an…