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Cheers to Father’s Day
Laura, our beautiful graphic designer is a Scottish lass. True to her home country, and the drink that is so popular over there, she drew and digitized this whisky glass embroidery design for a cheerful Father’s Day gift. Cheers to Father’s Day... more »
The ’Bird’ Behind the Birds plus FREE Cockatoo Design
This week we bring you the inside ‘swoop‘ on Bernadett. She is responsible for all the incredibly rich content delivered each week on our Hatch Embroidery blog, and since everyone has been raving about the Australian bird life that she... more »
Sunglasses Case – FREE ITH Project by Caroline Critchfield
Our regular blog contributor Caroline Critchfield from SewCanShe.com came up with a wonderful Mother’s Day gift idea, an in-the-hoop sunglasses case design, and we were thrilled. It is not only a fabulous and practical gift, but a great way... 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 »
Christmas Presents from the Hatch Family
If you are stuck for decoration, cards or handy last-minute gifts, these beautiful Christmas machine embroidery designs that our Hatch family members kindly provided, will help you out. There is a great variety of designs and even an ITH project here,... more »
Hatch Embroidery Christmas Collection
December has finally arrived, so we collated our favorite Winter themed machine embroidery projects. These will warm up your creativity during the cold season and offer you the perfect time to make that Christmas gift for someone special. You will find... more »
Wayne’s Embroidery World
I really wanted to share the story of an unexpected embroiderer and thread junky named Wayne from Arizona, USA.It all started with an embroidery design that Wayne created and posted on Facebook. Together with the comments that followed, it grabbed my... more »
Inspirational Story of Sarah Sypher, Assistance Dogs’ Best Friend
I have spent most of my life in South Australia, and my husband Tharrow, grew up in the USA. Around 2 years ago we became gray’ish’ nomads travelling between South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland for around 10 months of... 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 »
Summer Machine Embroidery at its Best
Summer is colorful and fun and so are these articles we collated for you. They provide a good mix of tutorials on digitizing techniques and come with tutorials and downloadable free designs. There is something for everyone, so be sure to check them all... 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 »
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 »
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 »