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Celebrating 4th of July with Machine Embroidery
What better way to celebrate a holiday that is all about freedom than with a great FREE design? The artwork for this beautiful ‘Stars & Stripes’ Heart design was hand drawn by our lovely graphic designer, Laura and adapted and digitized... more »
ITH Jar Cover using Appliqué by Lindee Goodall
The wonderful Lindee Goodall is back to show you how you can create something amazing in Hatch Embroidery without any artwork whatsoever! Her clever tutorial will show you how you can create a cute jar cover using the built in features and tools with... more »
How to Digitize for 3D Puffy Foam Machine Embroidery
Puffy foam is commonly used to achieve 3D like raised embroidery. It is very popular for logos on caps and backpacks commercially, but as you can see in the tulip design I created for this article, you can also use it in decorative machine embroidery to... more »
How to preview your embroidery placement in Hatch Embroidery
You will find a button at the end of this article. Click it to be redirected to the Resource Center where you can access this great 3D Father’s Day FREE design. There is an often overlooked, but very useful visualizer feature in Hatch... more »
Working with Colors in Hatch Embroidery is so much fun!
Choosing beautiful colors for your projects is one of the most fun parts of machine embroidery. Hatch Embroidery offers you very intuitive tools to ensure your designs always end up looking beautiful. You do not need to be a color expert to get it... more »
How to Use Auto Fabric or Create Your Own Custom Fabric Settings
Machine embroidery stitches pull fabric inward where the needle penetrates. This can cause fabric to pucker and gaps to appear. For an object to stitch out correctly, it must have the correct stitch spacing, sufficient pull compensation, together with a... more »
How to Choose the Right Underlay for your Machine Embroidery Designs
Embroidery appearance and quality depends a lot on the underlay which serves as a foundation for cover stitching. Without an underlay, embroidery lies flat on the underlying fabric which can often show through. New digitizers might be tempted to increase... more »
Digitizing Carlo the Chameleon – Downloadable FREE Design
I am super excited to reveal this project I have been working on for quite some time. I was fortunate to collaborate with the beautiful Catherine Noel again, an amazing graphics artist from the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. You might still... more »
How to Use Curved Fills to Create Amazing Effects
This blog article will give you an excellent overview of how to use curved fills to create amazing effects for your next embroidery project. Hatch Embroidery software provides several techniques for creating curved stitching for your machine... more »
Meet Nicole La Cour, Winner of the Easter Photo Contest
We saw some really great entries into this year’s Hatch Embroidery Easter Photo Contest. However, there was one that really stood out above all, Nicole La Cour’s “Bunny Bag”. It is a stunning design that demonstrated a high... more »
Hungarian Folk Hen – Construction Machine Embroidery
A while ago when I was browsing Craftsy, I came across this lovely French Hen design by MmmCrafts, and it was love at first sight! The design required hand embroidery and a bit of construction assembly work which was a lot fun, especially because I... more »
Dominican Doll by Norhilda Alvarez
I have been following Norhilda on social media for a while admiring the speed she keeps churning out her key fob designs. They are very imaginative and incredibly cute. She also digitizes lovely embroidery designs that capture the essence of female... more »
Journal Cover Project with ITH Crazy Patch Heart by Lindee Goodall
Journal and book covers are quick and easy sewing projects and are perfect for jazzing up a basic composition book, notebook or other book. And for us as embroiders, they provide a great little canvas to show off some favorite designs. In a previous post,... more »
Crazy About Motifs – Video Tutorials & FREE Downloadables by Lindee Goodall
The first time I was aware of embroidery machines was at a computer swap meet at the Cincinnati Mac Users Group in 1992. A member had a small curious machine that resembled an oversized stapler that he said did embroidery. He had no sew-outs and when I... more »
’Christmas Present’ ITH Ornament Project by Meryl Makes
Christmas is nearly upon us and everyone’s busy creating something special for this year’s festivities. We love the beautiful burlap Christmas ornaments Meryl has been selling on her website Meryl Makes, so we asked her if she could contribute to... more »
See a Horse? It’s a Seahorse!
Let me start by saying how excited I am to be sharing with you how I digitized this beautiful seahorse! The response to my Facebook post was both humbling and incredibly uplifting. I know there are a lot of you who are really interested in learning how... more »
Hatch Patch by Erich Campbell
I have made patches for everyone from local motorcycle clubs to the wardrobe department on Better Call Saul, and the truth is that the method for making small numbers of custom patches does not vary much from the big commercial jobs to the craft and... more »
How to Turn Coloring Book Designs into Quilted Mandala Pillows
Hi! This is Caroline from SewCanShe.com. I’m so excited to be a guest on the Hatch blog today sharing how I used Hatch Embroidery Digitizer to turn a coloring book design into these beautiful pillows! Please note that almost all coloring book... more »
Halloween with Nicola Elliott – Downloadable FREE Designs
We previously featured Nicola Elliott and her beautifully quirky embroidery designs she creates using Hatch Embroidery Digitizer. The embroidery designs we showcased back then were very feminine and pretty. But Nicola admittedly has a fascination with... more »
Dramatic Heart Necklace – Video Tutorial & FREE Design by Sonia Showalter
Free Standing Lace. Friend or foe? I hear people say all the time how fascinated they are by FSL, but too scared to try it. Sonia Showalter is certainly not one of them. On her website you will find many beautiful FSL designs from ornaments to beads and... more »