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Category: Ghost in the Embroidery Machine

link to Ghost In The Embroidery Machine – Erich Campbell

Ghost In The Embroidery Machine – Erich Campbell

We’ve some fantastic columns on Mr X Stitch and we wanted to celebrate the authors who share their love of needlecraft with you. This time it's our Digitizing Guru, Erich...

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link to Selling Stock Embroidery Designs – Avoiding Three Top Traps

Selling Stock Embroidery Designs – Avoiding Three Top Traps

Digitizers of any vintage have likely generated piles of useful elements and files with corresponding notebooks bristling with ideas to keep them punching into old age. With all these underutilized...

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link to Digitizing for Non-Digitizers – 4 Basic Editing Skills to Save Designs

Digitizing for Non-Digitizers – 4 Basic Editing Skills to Save Designs

Though I extol the freedom of expression that doing your own digitizing provides, not every embroiderer will become a digitizer. Whether due to a lack of resources or interest, many embroiderers...

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link to The Pathing Principle

The Pathing Principle

One of the unsung qualities of the proficient embroidery digitizer is the ability to properly 'path' designs. Pathing refers to controlling the journey of the needle through the design. This...

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link to How Do You Make Patches?

How Do You Make Patches?

Patches are one of the coolest forms of machine embroidery, a great way of recognising your favourite band, team or just making your clothes and bags that bit more personal. But how do you make...

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link to Machine Embroidery: Density Is Our Destiny

Machine Embroidery: Density Is Our Destiny

Density - as it refers to machine embroidery, density is essentially a measure of the space between parallel stitches or lines of stitching. It can also be expressed as the number of such stitches or...

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