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How to use the Mirror-Copy Tool for Perfectly Symmetrical Embroidery Designs
Tutorial video & FREE Hippy Campervan design 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... more »
Summer Machine Embroidery at its Best
Six Summer Favorites with Tutorials and FREE Designs 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... more »
Color Blending is Really Easy with Hatch Embroidery!
Tequila Sunrise Cocktail FREE Design & Downloadable Tutorial 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... more »
Add Texture to your Embroidery with Embossed Fills
How to make the most of these wonderful 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... more »
Celebrating 4th of July with Machine Embroidery
FREE 'Stars & Stripes' Heart Design 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... more »
ITH Jar Cover using Appliqué by Lindee Goodall
Video Tutorial and downloadable FREE Project 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... more »
How to Digitize for 3D Puffy Foam Machine Embroidery
FREE 3D Puffy Foam Tulip design 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... 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!
Picking and changing colors is very easy and the results are rewarding 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... more »
How to Use Auto Fabric or Create Your Own Custom Fabric Settings
Choosing the right fabric settings for best machine embroidery results 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... more »
How to Choose the Right Underlay for your Machine Embroidery Designs
Learn about the different types of underlays and how to work with them for the best results 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... more »
Digitizing Carlo the Chameleon – Downloadable FREE Design
Learn all about the Stitch Types, Fills, Tools and Techniques used to create this striking 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,... more »
How to Use Curved Fills to Create Amazing Effects
Take your embroidery to an entirely new level! 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... more »
Meet Nicole La Cour, Winner of the Easter Photo Contest
Downloadable FREE designWe 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... more »
Hungarian Folk Hen – Construction Machine Embroidery
Learn how this beautiful hen was created and assembled 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... more »
Digitizing Animals with Hatch Embroidery – FREE King Parrot design
Learn about the various ways you can achieve the look of fur and feathers Once you have mastered the basics of digitizing, you can easily find yourself looking for the next challenge. Digitizing animals with embroidery that imitates fur or feathers is... more »
Laura Bruynseels’ LOVE-able Valentine’s Designs
Free downloadable designs Once you try Hatch Embroidery, there is a very good chance you will fall in LOVE with it. A good example is our LOVE–ly graphic designer, Laura, who is usually busy creating the beautiful artwork you see in our emails,... more »
Dominican Doll by Norhilda Alvarez
Read about Norhilda and download the FREE designI 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... more »
Journal Cover Project with ITH Crazy Patch Heart by Lindee Goodall
Video tutorials, downloadable instructions and FREE Design 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... more »
Crazy About Motifs – Video Tutorials & FREE Downloadables by Lindee Goodall
Learn about how to create an ITH Crazy Patch and new Motifs and then how to apply them 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... more »