Digitizing With Dimension Unfortunately, some new machine embroiderers start out expecting their machines to be 'thread printers' using embroidery as simply another option for...
Posts by Erich Campbell
Stitch Types in Machine Embroidery and Digitizing: The Only Stitch I'm told my first two posts on distortion may have been a bit deep to start 'Digitzing 101', so I'm going...
Ghost in the Embroidery Machine: Digitizing Detailed Designs Demystified
Digitizing Detailed Designs Demystified Byzantine details, gradients, and tiny text can cause any digitizer to hesitate on a project. Complex art can evoke resistance or even...
Distortion in Digitizing In this post, we're going to continue to tackle that scourge of all new digitizers, the distortion of the the on-screen design that happens when the...
Distortion in Digitizing Part 1 – Pull Distortion and Pull Compensation
Pull Compensation Continuing our ‘Digitizing 101’ theme, we’ll cover the most basic and yet most troublesome concept for budding digitizers - distortion. There is a fairly...
Our good host asked that I begin this adventure with a bit of 'Digitizing 101', and I am all too happy to oblige, though I will be covering some philosophical ground along with the technical...
My experimentation usually starts when someone asks me a surprising machine embroidery question; this project was entirely based on one of my many stitchy friends assuming I knew how to digitize...
Our digitizing guru, Erich Campbell, wrote an article about NASA Mission Patches for the Space issue of XStitch Magazine and we thought you'd enjoy...
Now a big tablet is about 24", far from the blind billboards of yesteryear. Embroidery Digitizing in the Real World Digitizers-in-training justifiably bemoan the lack of a single, clear-cut...
Can I Do Embroidery Digitizing At Home? (3 Reasons Why You Can!)
A commenter on one of my posts recently lamented an inability to create their own designs, stating something to the effect that though they had started to really love machine embroidery, that they...
