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Create Amazing Designs Quick and Easy with the Layout Tools
Layout tools are available with Hatch Embroidery Digitizer and Hatch Embroidery Composer. They provide endless possibilities to create truly amazing designs. They also save you so much time when you need to place duplicates of the same object or design... more »
The Wonderful World of Motif Fills
I was so excited to be collaborating with the beautiful Nicola Elliott again! Nicola offered to draw and digitize something special just for us for Mother’s Day and I grabbed the opportunity with both hands! Firstly it gave me a chance to talk... more »
Choosing the Best Supplies for Your Machine Embroidery Projects
When you start out in machine embroidery, there are so many different supplies you need to be looking at, it can easily get overwhelming. We wanted to shed light on the different types of fabrics you can use. We also give you some guidelines to which... more »
Multi-Hooping Large Designs with Hatch Embroidery
If your embroidery is too large or contains a number of designs spaced around an article, you can use the great tools in the Multi-Hooping toolbox to split it into multiple hoopings. The aim is to add hoops and move them around until you get the... more »
Exporting Your Designs to SVG Files
Do you love appliqué? The new ‘Export Cutting’ tool lets you export appliqué and/or embroidery shapes to SVG file format. The tool also works with fonts. You can export entire lettering objects as cutting lines or break them... more »
Machine Embroidery Hooping
When you are new to machine embroidery, the amount different things you need to learn can get a little daunting. I put together this quick run down on hooping, so you get a good understanding of why it is so important. You might have a fantastic... more »
How to use the Mirror-Copy Tool for Perfectly Symmetrical Embroidery Designs
Using the Mirror-Copy tool in the Layout toolbox, you can save many hours of digitizing and create the perfect symmetrical design. Copy and flip selected objects horizontally or vertically with ease. Simply select the object(s) you want to copy and click... more »
Color Blending is Really Easy with Hatch Embroidery!
What is nicer on a hot summer day than a refreshing and colorful cocktail? I digitized this Tequila Sunrise design to demonstrate how easy it is to create something really striking using the ‘Create Color Blend’ tool in Hatch Embroidery... more »
Add Texture to your Embroidery with Embossed Fills
Embossed fills are used to fill wide and large areas with patterned decorative stitching while keeping the appearance of a solid field. The pattern is repeated along a grid. You can change the grid settings for greater variation. To preset an Embossed Fill,... 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 »
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 »
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 »