You won’t know beans about about why some work and others do at first. Really watch them from the first to the last stitch. All kinds of designs and start analyzing them.

The best training for learning to digitize is watching lots and lots of designs sew. While graphic skills are certainly helpful they don’t translate to making machine embroidery designs. I don’t care if you are a graphics designer and you’re expert in the full Adobe line. If you just got your embroidery machine, you aren’t ready for digitizing. Remote controls and automation have spoiled us for doing any actual real work.īefore we get to that… WHY DO YOU WANT TO DIGITIZE? Today’s embroiderer generally wants something more than that and they want it to be easy, quick, and painless. It would take a long time but it’s totally possible. Possibly not with just one or two clicks but when you get down to it, a stitch is just a needle penetration and theoretically you could make a very sophisticated design with just a manual single stitch tool. You can do appliqué, lace, filled designs, logos, redwork, etc.

By basic I mean typical types of stitches like fills, satins, runs, motif stitches, etc. And it turns out a lot of those asking already have software.īasically, if you have any reputable digitizing software, you can do most any basic type of thing you might need. Yes, I’m a digitizer but I’m not out there comparing every digitizing program. I’m not sure why people keep asking me this. How to choose the software of your dreams.

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