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Category: Machine Embroidery

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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link to Ghost in the Embroidery Machine – Meet Erich Campbell!

Ghost in the Embroidery Machine – Meet Erich Campbell!

For a while now we've been getting feedback from you all on what columns were your favourites - this one came out tops, so we've treated you to another look at it!  From now on read this column...

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link to Making Pixel-Art Machine Embroidery

Making Pixel-Art Machine Embroidery

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 the...

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link to Book Review – Stitch Rhythms & Patterns

Book Review – Stitch Rhythms & Patterns

Stitch Rhythms & Patterns by Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn, published by Double Trouble Enterprises Introduction This is a go-to book for ideas; it is not a book designed to influence our...

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link to Prep and Punch: Drawing and Embroidery Digitizing

Prep and Punch: Drawing and Embroidery Digitizing

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...

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I'm Jamie Chalmers, aka Mr X Stitch, aka The Kingpin of Contemporary Embroidery, and I'm on a mission to change the way you think about embroidery.
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