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i think, i think i think, that the embroidery digitization software i want is Embrilliance’s “Stitch Artist”. I don’t think the free tools out there scattered across the Internet will do me much good really, as most of them are Windows anyway, and most of them are actually just free trials. Embrilliance doesn’t do free trials but they do a money-back thing instead, where you can return the software if you don’t like it.
I just have so much trouble really distinguishing what terms to look for to find out if the software is what I want. An awful lot of the things I’ve been looking at are actually just… to make… hand embroidery patterns? Which, like. If you’re starting off with a thing you drew, or art you traced yourself, what more do you possibly actually need to do in order to make a pattern? Like… there you are! I get cross stitch, you’ve got to pixelize it and all, but like. It’s not like embroidery patterns even really tell you what direction to go in. Even the most comprehensive ones are just charts. You can do that with a pencil and some graph paper. I fail to see why you’d need expensive software just so you can put it into color and make it look stitch-y in the art.
What I need is software that makes files that tell my embroidery machine what to do. My machine can’t just trace a line, it has to be told how many stitches and of what type.
I have a lot of things I want to embroider, though. I hadn’t actually asked anyone for an embroidery machine, it was more something my friend wanted, but i have a ton of ideas.
So far I’ve covered a scrap of denim in clip art and cuss words, LOL.
… I might start an Etsy store though, and sell the digitized designs and some patches and things. Patches and postcards and things. Most of my ideas are political, though, so maybe I want to assume a name for the purpose…
Anyway, in the meantime, I’m taking requests: what slogans of three or four words or less would you like to see embroidered in one or two colors in the built-in machine fonts on impressively-weatherbeaten scraps of denim?*
I could do more than four words but I can’t do carriage returns, and only about five or six letters fit in the frame even on a small font size, so each word is a separate embroidery session and i have to manually reposition the whole shebang for it, so I’m not embroidering manifestos just yet. (Maybe later but it’d be a labor of love and not something I could do repeatedly– not using the built-in text tool, I’d have to use a program to assemble that many words and line breaks and such, and upload it as a single file if I wanted multiple copies.)
(*Oh yeah did I tell the story of the random feed sack I found full of eight pairs of 36x30 Lee jeans with red paint and holes and stains? Found it upstairs in the granary; at least one had a back pocket with a conspicuous worn spot showing a tobacco tin, so my suspicion is that they belonged to the house’s previous owners’ male half of the couple, who was a short stout chewer of tobacco and wearer of grubby old jeans, but– why would you store eight worn-out pairs of jeans in a feed sack in an outbuilding for fifteen years? It’s a mystery. Also how many different pairs of them did he really need to wear in order to paint something dark red? Why are they all paint-stained? Why not just some? How many wardrobe changes was he doing during this painting session? Anyway I salvaged them, have washed them twice and left them hung out during rain, and they’re getting made into extremely one of a kind patches and such.)
i think, i think i think, that the embroidery digitization software i want is Embrilliance’s “Stitch Artist”. I don’t think the free tools out there scattered across the Internet will do me much good really, as most of them are Windows anyway, and most of them are actually just free trials. Embrilliance doesn’t do free trials but they do a money-back thing instead, where you can return the software if you don’t like it.
I just have so much trouble really distinguishing what terms to look for to find out if the software is what I want. An awful lot of the things I’ve been looking at are actually just… to make… hand embroidery patterns? Which, like. If you’re starting off with a thing you drew, or art you traced yourself, what more do you possibly actually need to do in order to make a pattern? Like… there you are! I get cross stitch, you’ve got to pixelize it and all, but like. It’s not like embroidery patterns even really tell you what direction to go in. Even the most comprehensive ones are just charts. You can do that with a pencil and some graph paper. I fail to see why you’d need expensive software just so you can put it into color and make it look stitch-y in the art.
What I need is software that makes files that tell my embroidery machine what to do. My machine can’t just trace a line, it has to be told how many stitches and of what type.
I have a lot of things I want to embroider, though. I hadn’t actually asked anyone for an embroidery machine, it was more something my friend wanted, but i have a ton of ideas.
So far I’ve covered a scrap of denim in clip art and cuss words, LOL.
… I might start an Etsy store though, and sell the digitized designs and some patches and things. Patches and postcards and things. Most of my ideas are political, though, so maybe I want to assume a name for the purpose…
Anyway, in the meantime, I’m taking requests: what slogans of three or four words or less would you like to see embroidered in one or two colors in the built-in machine fonts on impressively-weatherbeaten scraps of denim?*
I could do more than four words but I can’t do carriage returns, and only about five or six letters fit in the frame even on a small font size, so each word is a separate embroidery session and i have to manually reposition the whole shebang for it, so I’m not embroidering manifestos just yet. (Maybe later but it’d be a labor of love and not something I could do repeatedly– not using the built-in text tool, I’d have to use a program to assemble that many words and line breaks and such, and upload it as a single file if I wanted multiple copies.)
(*Oh yeah did I tell the story of the random feed sack I found full of eight pairs of 36x30 Lee jeans with red paint and holes and stains? Found it upstairs in the granary; at least one had a back pocket with a conspicuous worn spot showing a tobacco tin, so my suspicion is that they belonged to the house’s previous owners’ male half of the couple, who was a short stout chewer of tobacco and wearer of grubby old jeans, but– why would you store eight worn-out pairs of jeans in a feed sack in an outbuilding for fifteen years? It’s a mystery. Also how many different pairs of them did he really need to wear in order to paint something dark red? Why are they all paint-stained? Why not just some? How many wardrobe changes was he doing during this painting session? Anyway I salvaged them, have washed them twice and left them hung out during rain, and they’re getting made into extremely one of a kind patches and such.)
