After receiving a few requests on free embroidery design software, we did some researching on this subject. We are happy to announce that we have found a good free embroidery software that would convert your favourite photographs into embroidery designs. It is free to download at Pixel Hobby. Once you upload the photograph – almost immediately the software develops the embroidery design along with the colour details. You could then click on the print option which gives the details of the base plates, color codes and pixels. Finally you have an option for ordering the necessary base plates and threads required for stitching the particular design.

I tried it myself for a photograph of my twin children Keshav and Madhav – the output of which you see alongside this post. They came out quite well and distinct after choosing 4 baseplates for each axis. The total number of colours necessary for this embroidery design is 70 with 275 pixel squares. Let me know once you experiment on this. One could actually embroider one’s favourite photos through this software. We could have another section on free embroidery designs through this exercise.

If you want to learn how to digitize your favourite embroidery designs in order to sew them using your embroidery machine, you must visit SecretsOf.com – (Click on “Everything for Embroidery”, choose “Tutorials” for a range of choices which include tutorials for embroidery digitizing software.) Here you can learn to digitize your own designs through the fun way of learning – practical projects – which include the candle holders shown beside this post using embroidery software. For the candles embroidery design, here is the summary explanation of the download project – “The download consists of detailed step-by-step instructions with lots of pictures showing you how to create the candle holders.

There are two .bmp files included with the shape of the poinsettia files you need, and the final designs are included as well (just in case you want to embroidery first and learn to digitize your own later!)

The design consists of 2 files in the following formats: .ART, .PES, .XXX and detailed assembly instructions. All designs fit within a 5″ x 7″ hoop (the designs are slightly less than 5″ x 5″).” The PC Machine Embroidery Designs Guide would come in quite handy here.

Dear Internet Friend, I have a question for you: Give me one difference between the two seals in the picture beside this post…..Give up!…..The correct answer: The one on the left is a computer drawn image, the one on the right is an artista embroidery design.

Second question: What is the relationship between the two? The answer: The seal on the right emerges once you run the Artista 4.0 embroidery digitizing software through the seal on the left.

If you want to learn about the Artista 4.0 embroidery digitizing software tutorial by Heather Snow, you must visit SecretsOf.com (Go to Everything for Embroidery, click on Tutorials and choose Bernina Artista Tutorials). The information on embroidery design software would come in handy here.

If you are a fan of dakota embroidery designs, you would not want to miss these Dakota Collectibles I came across on Amazon. The collections are categorised into various topics like the ones listed below:

• Dakota 970003 Embroidery Design CD- Collectibles: Wildlife
• Dakota 970006 Embroidery Design CD: Collectibles: Garden
• Dakota 970008 Embroidery Design CD- Collectibles: Golf
• Dakota 970036 Embroidery CD: Collectibles: Holiday Happenings

The Dakota 970011 Embroidery Design Childrens CD cover is the one you see next to this post. There is another unique collectible called Dakota 970025 Embroidery Design CD Collectibles: The Gambler. This is a great CD for those interested in embroidering playing cards!

All designs come in CD-ROM format downloadable through your sewing machine software. They can be used in the following formats: art, csd, dst, exp, hus, jef, ofm, pcs, pes, sew. Various details on machine embroidery would come in handy here.

One of my friends recently gifted me this Embroidery Design Software book – Sew Much Fun: 14 Projects to Stitch & Machine Embroider and I was overwhelmed since it answered quite a few questions I had hidden inside me in an easy lucid manner. You definitely must not miss it! One of the most important points is that it begins from embroidery design basics. The language and graphics used are very good which made reading interesting. Take a look at the language in the basics: “When you machine embroider, several major factors influence the quality of the finished design: they include embroidery machine (or module) maintenance, the embroidery design itself, the products used and the user technique.” Then the book further goes on to exemplify the four details through photographs. Makes it quite comprehensive, doesn’t it? It would be helpful to know something about machine embroidery designing to grasp the contents of the book easily, especially the 14 projects. The one I liked best was Fisherman’s Wall Clock. The book also comes with a bonus CDROM with 40 free embroidery designs. If you do read this book, I would be delighted to have your comments on the projects that you loved to embroider.