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Category: Ghost in the Embroidery Machine

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Digitizing With Dimension

Digitizing With Dimension Unfortunately, some new machine embroiderers start out expecting their machines to be 'thread printers' using embroidery as simply another option for transferring an image...

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Machine Embroidery: The Only Stitch That Matters!

The essential truth about machine embroidery is that there's technically only one possible stitch. Your most amazing standard embroidery machine makes the same interlock stitch that any sewing...

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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 dread and it's easily...

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link to Distortion in Digitizing Part Two : Push Distorti

Distortion in Digitizing Part Two : Push Distorti

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 design is stitched. In...

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link to Distortion in Digitizing Part 1 – Pull Distortion and Pull Compensation

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 constant amount of...

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What Is Embroidery Digitizing?

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...

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