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Topic illustration: How machine speed impact on embroidery
CourseBeginner

Machine Embroidery 101

Hatch Academy / Wilcom

Build a vocabulary for discussing objects, stitches, underlay, density and related decisions.

Topic illustration: Embroidered patches
Course

Digitize a Basic Patch

Hatch Academy / Wilcom

Study a basic patch workflow using the software’s digitizing tools.

Topic illustration: Auto trace vs manual trace
CourseBeginner

Hatch 4: Digitizing Basics

Hatch Academy / Wilcom

Explore the transition from artwork into auto and manual digitizing tasks.

A vector letter A prepared as stitches beside its embroidered result
Guide

Ink/Stitch Lettering

Ink/Stitch

A practical starting point for adding text to an embroidery project.

Topic illustration: Auto digitizing for embroidery
Course

Digitize a Bluebell Flower

Hatch Academy / Wilcom

Use a flower project to study the decisions hidden inside apparently simple artwork.

Topic illustration: Best computerized embroidery machines
Course

Hatch 4: Multi-Hooping

Hatch Academy / Wilcom

Study a workflow for planning designs that involve more than one hoop position.

Topic illustration: Types of machine embroidery threads
Book

Raffia Embroidery

Tihara Smith

Explore raffia as a decorative hand-embroidery material with a distinctive surface character.

Topic illustration: Reverse applique embroidery
Book

Appliqué Art

Abigail Mill

Explore appliqué as a way to construct a picture from fabric, color and stitched detail.

Topic illustration: How to display embroidery
Book

Machine Embroidered Art

Alison Holt

Study freehand machine embroidery through landscape, texture and the natural world.

Topic illustration: Custom embroidery kit for beginners hobbyists
Book

Free Motion Embroidery

Katie Essam

Explore free-motion machine work as a way to draw with thread and fabric.

Topic illustration: Turn text into vector file
Guide

Choose Ink/Stitch Fonts

Ink/Stitch

Browse the available alphabet references with a specific lettering job in mind.

Topic illustration: How to digitize letters for embroidery
Guide

Ink/Stitch Font Tools

Ink/Stitch

Useful for understanding the tools involved in working with embroidery alphabets.

Topic illustration: Embroidery vs cross stitch
Guide

Ink/Stitch Cross Stitch

Ink/Stitch

Use this reference when exploring a cross-stitch appearance in a machine workflow.

Topic illustration: How embroidery digitizing actually works from art to stitch file
Guide

Ink/Stitch Contour Fill

Ink/Stitch

Study a fill treatment that emphasizes the relationship between lines and shape.

Topic illustration: Embossed vs embroidery digitizing
Guide

Ink/Stitch S-Stitch

Ink/Stitch

A reference for another decorative treatment within the stitch toolkit.

Topic illustration: Knockdown stitches in machine embroidery
Guide

Ink/Stitch E-Stitch

Ink/Stitch

Explore an alternative stitch treatment for an edge or decorative detail.

Topic illustration: Online embroidery workshops
GuideBeginner

Set up Ink/Stitch on Linux

Ink/Stitch

A platform-specific starting point for Linux users building a digitizing workspace.

Topic illustration: Digitize design for cap embroidery
VideoIntermediate

How to Digitize Flats vs Caps

Ricoma TV

In this Embroidery Hub episode, Willy from Ricoma explains the key differences between digitizing a design for flat garments and digitizing it for caps, and then demonst…

Topic illustration: How to make patches with any embroidery machine
VideoBeginner

How to make Custom Embroidered Patches

Ricoma TV

Carl from Ricoma walks through the entire process of embroidering custom patches, step by step, using the company's Creator machine. It is pitched at beginners as well a…

Topic illustration: Patches and appliques
VideoIntermediate

How to create custom applique patches

Melco Embroidery

Josh from Melco's applications team demonstrates making custom patches with the appliqué method, in which a piece of fabric forms part of the design instead of the whole…

Topic illustration: Basic of cap embroidery digitizing
VideoIntermediate

Hooping a Cap on the Wide Angle Cap Frame (WACF)

Melco Embroidery

For shops running Melco machines with the Wide Angle Cap Frame, this video shows how to hoop a cap on that frame. Hooped the way it demonstrates, the cap can take a desi…

Topic illustration: Hooping 101 getting stable flat sew outs
VideoBeginner

Hooping Tension and Technique

Melco Embroidery

A short Melco lesson on how hoop tension and hooping technique affect the quality of the finished stitch-out, with recommended practices for hooping garments. Worth watc…

Topic illustration: Applique workflow
VideoIntermediate

Appliqué in Hatch Embroidery

Hatch Embroidery

For Hatch Embroidery users who already know basic digitizing and want to add appliqué. The lesson shows that creating an appliqué object works much like digitizing any o…

Topic illustration: Custom embroidery consulting
PodcastBeginner

Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder

Hope Yoder

Hope Yoder, who has worked in embroidery for 30 years and runs her own personalization business, built this show for people turning an embroidery machine into a paying b…

Topic illustration: Consultancy services
Podcast episodeIntermediate

Episode 14: Never Do This Or You'll Lose Your Customer?

Hope Yoder · Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder

Aimed at shop owners who approve designs with customers. Hope explains why she does not send clients an on-screen digitized rendering and instead tests the design on scr…

Topic illustration: Choosing the right stitch type satin fill and run
Podcast episodeBeginner

Episode 12: Embroidery Terms You Need To Know

Hope Yoder · Embroidery Profit Podcast with Hope Yoder

New to machine embroidery and lost in the jargon? Hope defines the words you will hear from digitizers and customers: throat plate, bobbin and tension, backing versus to…

Topic illustration: How embroidery digitizing actually works from art to stitch file
Book

Punch: Digitizing for Embroidery Design

Bonnie Nielsen

A digitizing book by a professional puncher with more than 25 years in the embroidery trade, written for people who create stitch files for industrial embroidery machine…

Topic illustration: Embroidery digitizing an insightful guide for beginners and professionals
BookBeginner

The Complete Machine Embroidery Manual

Elizabeth Keegan

Aimed at sewing-machine owners who stitch ready-made embroidery designs. It explains the types and file formats of designs, how to get a downloaded design onto your mach…

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