Embroidery Designs Guide

This embroidery design software borders on the line dividing home embroidery and industrial embroidery. Corel Draw functionalities have been used completely here. High resolution machine embroidery from graphic images using Corel Draw are created using high end digital imaging software. The name of the software is Smart Draw. This uses Corel Draw Add on software for embroidery and also could be used for production ready digital art on CDROM. I will focus solely on the first category which I hope would prove useful to our readers. Smart Designer X3 adds 110 new menus on the Corel Draw (version > 11) and transforms this software from a general graphics program into an industry specifics program which can be used for garment printing, embroidery and other products.

The Drawings X3 Standard Edition is used by home embroiderers. This uses Draw Stitch technology and converts vector images in Corel Draw into premium quality machine embroidery designs. The advantage is that the density, underlay and composition of each design can be preset and adjusted using this technology.

Check out this collection of applique and puff embroidery at Mushroom Monday Screen Printing & Embroidery. This is done using digitized embroidery done specific to your custom requirements which specifically caters to groups of people or staff with a common logo or symbol. Made to order - this is ideal for a complete set of jacket or headgear for your employees or particular group of friends who identify with a common cause. Mushroom Monday have 22 years experience with an impressive clientele. Their mission statement reads : “To provide quality products to our customers with unsurpassed customer service.”

Embroidery softwares form a powerful tool in effective designing and an embroiderer often uses these tools for monograms, digitizing, sizing, fonts to name a few. Digitizing is the art of porting simple embroidery designs, photos, logos or clipart into a computer readable format which makes it a standard and universal method of replicating these designs to the same specifications in the shortest possible time.

Check out this collection of softwares at Sewing Machine Outlet. Apart from the digitizing softwares available, they have unique sizing and monogram software. The Melco sizing software has features like full scaling of designs with automatic stitch adjustment, it can rotate and transform designs, can adjust stitch counts by adding or removing stitches to retain design quality and has the ability to read or write major commercial and home formats. The embroidery card convertor boxes has the ability to read and write most embroidery formats to blank card and can download pre-digitized designs from internet, PC, hard drive. A blank card can hold up to 6 designs at a time and can work with almost all embroidery machines and existing embroidery software.

The click ‘n stitch ‘xtra with applique software (you can see the front cover above this post) can quickly create embroidery, cross-stitch and applique designs from clip art or scanned images.

Here is a great resource on some pretty embroidery fonts - The Embroidery Font Shop. All of them would make great appliques. Each font category has unique characteristics and should be used appropriately for the right person and dress. For example, the Aristocrat font denotes classiness while the Funky font is more casual. The Flirty font is best for teens, whilst the Monster font is the kids favourite. There are some good wedding fonts like Silverbell, Charming or Edwardian which you could use for special invites.
All fonts come in small, medium and large sizes with 26 letters. If the font style is such that the size varies depending on whether it is at the center or right/left position, then you would have both the size options. The embroidery fonts come in Jef, art, pcs, pcd, xxx, exp, csd, pec, pes, sew, hus, dst, vip formats (the information on machine embroidery would come in handy here).

Some of them are quite unique like Tinkertoy, Antique, Skittles. A good auto digitizing software for embroidery fonts is Singer Hyper Font - Font Auto Digitizing Software. The hyper font software easily converts any Windows True Type (R) font into embroidery embellishments.

Happy Embroidery Fonting!

Where does the Amazing Box find its place in the world of embroidery designs? - The Embroidery Reader/Writer box also known as Amazing Box sits between the computer/memory card and the embroidery machine and works as a communication link between them.

What is so amazing about the Amazing Box used for embroidery designing? - The Amazing Box allows you to read ANY format memory card, floppy drive, CD or designs from the computer and write them to the specially made flash card for your particular embroidery machine. All Amazing Designs software will work with the Amazing Box. This includes Smart Sizer Gold and Lettering Pro. Truly amazing isn’t it? This came as a breath of fresh air for all embroidery enthusiasts and hence this nickname was coined. The information on machine embroidery techniques would come in handy here.

We introduce you here to a resource of Embroidery Reader/Writer boxes - popularly called Amazing Boxes - AllBrands.com - Type “Amazing Box” in the search box and you would find a range of products to choose from depending on your requirement.

Hope this helps you in enhancing your embroidery design work! It has indeed helped many an enthusiast in developing various amazing unique embroideries. This has also been instrumental in creating home based businesses by aspiring entrepreneurs.

If you are interested in learning about Babylock and how it could be used to get the most out of your amazing box, you could try the tutorials at Secrets Of.    Navigate to Tutorials - Brother/Bablock.   All the Best!

Another great resource for you on free machine embroidery designs - ABC Embroidery. A repository of good embroideries indeed! Almost all the free patterns are perfectly suitable for 4×4 embroidery hoops. The information and tutorial on endless hoop embroidery designs would be helpful here.

The butterfly next to this post is a cutwork special - 2.91″ x 2.84″, contains 7246 stitches and is made of one single color. You can download this in all embroidery formats - ART, PES, HUS, JEF, XXX, DST, EXP, SHV, VIP or PCS. Special cutwork embroidery instructions have been included along with this download.

The information on digitizing embroidery software would come in useful if you are interested in knowing more about how one interfaces the PC with the embroidery machine.

For all lovers of machine embroidery patterns, this is a great resource of free downloadable embroidery designs, (all in NGS format) - Stitch.com. If you want to convert the format from NGS to something compatible with your embroidery machine, pls go to Coats EDV - You can register yourself OR use this login - “shikhadeepak@gmail.com” and password -”welcome” - all small case letters - and download the free software - Coats EDV16. Armed with this software, you can see the digitized embroidery designs used to programme major makes of embroidery machines.

You can also use it for tracking your designs and exchanging information with key friends and customers without worrying about the machine format. As for the free embroidery patterns, the best I liked was the rooster beside the post. Very colourful and complete in all respects. The shaded effect and the feathers are done exceptionally well.

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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.