Machine embroiderery and digitizing are two sewing crafts that are constantly evolving with changes in technology.
This website aims to share information that will help you develop your skills, and to inspire you to create beautiful projects on your embroidery machine, no matter what brand it is. Content from my previous site C U Digitizing is included here.
MACHINE EMBROIDERY DIGITIZING
Digitizing is the process of creating digital stitch data for embroidery machines to read and stitch out. Embroidery machines work a bit like plotters, moving the hooped fabric to coordinates or positions where the needle will stitch. Machine embroiderers who want to create their own unique designs use special software to create this data. Early versions of software required the programmer to enter a design stitch by stitch. As computer technology has evolved so has embroidery software. I have used many brands of digitizing software from the domestic market, and find Bernina Designer Plus to be the most user friendly. The resulting embroidery designs stitch out beautifully. The process is by no means childsplay, but with practise and experience excellent results can be achieved. To help anyone who has this software I have created a number of video tutorials. You will find many of them under Bernina Digitizing Tutorials All new tutorials will be embedded in posts under the Digitizing category.
MACHINE EMBROIDERY DESIGNS
Machine Embroidery designs are now very easy to obtain. Sewing machine companies market them through their dealers and over the internet, and there are many many freelance digitizers selling and giving away designs. The biggest problem you will have is choosing. You will also need to make sure the design you choose is in the right format for your machine and that the design will fit the hoop on your machine. I have a growing number of designs available in my Store and will sometimes add free ones to my posts in the Projects category.
MACHINE EMBROIDERY PROJECTS
We are always looking for new things to create with our embroidery machines. Posts under the Projects category of my blog are aimed at inspiring you, and at developing your skills in using your embroidery machine. Other categories in my blog such as Stabilizers, Machine Settings and Maintenance etc. have more usefull information to help you achieve the best result you can when embroidering.
Dear Carol,
I just love your lessons. They have been of great help to me. When you have time, could you do a lesson on how to move/fix fancy fills. Mine are usually off center and poorly placed. I don’t know how to fix it. Also, I saw a single candlewick “dot” used in a design. How do I do that? Keep up the fantastic work – we love you!
Dear Carol,
I covered the fancy fill issue briefly, in the Fancy Fill Part 2 version 5 video. It is still relevant to version 6, but I will do an updated one soon. The single candlewick “dot” is done using the pattern stamp function. Look this up in the onscreen manual. I will try to do a video on that also.
Carol,
Thank you so much for emailing me, you are such a great person, you are helping so many people by your youtube videos, I am a beginner and have watched 5 of your lessons and I am gaining more confidence, I felt so intimidated by the software 6, I am barely getting use to my Bernina 830. Just to let others know they can download the youtube so you can play it on one computer while doing the lesson on your computer that has your software 6 on it, makes it much easier to learn.. I am so thankful to you Carol, thank you for emailing me and letting me know which ones to get started on, thank you, thank you thank you, and may God richly bless you.
Denise
Hi Carol, I have owned my 2140 pfaff for 7 years and have never been able to get it to sew metalic thread no matter what combination of fabric, needle or thread. After reading your help page on sewing with metalic thread I lowered my top tension and slowed the machine to half and hay presto, I can now sew with metalic thread. Why didn’t I know this earlier. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Helen Wigg
Glad to have helped.
I use Bernina Designer Plus already but look forward to watching your videos later tonight – never know when you might learn a technique or way to use it that you are not familiar with.
Great. I never stop learning either. There are often several ways to achieve the same outcome, and it is good to see other peoples methods.
The lesson was very clear and precise. Learned a lot from it. Why did it keep downloading and stop every 10 seconds afte minute 15?
Thanks Diana, I have tried to email you but your email doesn’t seem to work. When you watch a You Tube video, the video downloads to your computer at the same time as you are watching it. The file size can vary, depending on how the video was recorded saved and compressed. Larger files take longer to download so the video has to stop to wait for more of the file. Your internet connection and whether or not you are looking at other things on the internet at the same time can also affect the speed of the download. Whenever I am watching a video that keeps stopping and starting, I hit the pause button and do something else while I wait for the whole file to download.
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