Inspired by a lovely gift from my sister, this week I have been having a blast from the past and mucking about trying to make merit badges.

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Look At What I Made!

Here is what I created using this technique.

Getting To The Point

The Hatch blog has a great tutorial for creating the actual merit badge base so, rather than me show you this too, I thought that this week I would do a little digitizing and then show you how easy it is to combine that design with the merit badge blank.

If you’d like to see the blog post about creating the merit badge base, please click here.

Hatching An Idea

I put this video together to show you my journey through this week’s adventure in machine embroidery. Just hit play and have a good slurp or two of your lovely beverage.

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Download The Free Machine Embroidery File

If you would like to get a copy of the blank merit badge .EMB (Hatch Embroidery) file, just hit the download button below. PS, it’s in a zipped folder so you will need to unzip it first and you will need a copy of Hatch installed on your computer to open it.

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Download Hatch Embroidery Digitizer for Free!

Want to try this software out for yourself?

Hatch offer a fully functional 30 day free trial of their software so you can give it a good road test prior to buying!

Just hit the big button below to nab yours!

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Ok, that’s me done for this post. Hope you enjoyed hearing about my adventures in machine embroidery and will pop back again soon.

All the best,

John.

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