Well it has been exciting for me over the last few days as, whilst I was having me little break, Hatch released a shiny new version of their embroidery digitizing software with a bunch of improvements and new tools!

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A little quickie this week.

I am looking at ways of decorating small areas of my home and wanted something to put near the small collection of books that I have. Gone are the days of hundreds of books in my place. I am all minimal these days and have less than fifty so adding a little “fun” to the area will hopefully make it look reet spesh.

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This week has been a good week, despite what this design indicates. The goal here was to create a design mostly focusing around text and I was feeling a little cheeky too … so, this!

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Bee-broidery is a thing! No, no it’s not. But I think I am going to make it BEE a thing! Yeesh, thankfully there are no more of these rubbish puns in this week’s adventure in machine embroidery.

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I enjoyed last week’s little play with some ready made inspiration so this week I went hunting for a simple design that I could make into something a little out of the ordinary. Stumbling across a silhouetted flamingo sparked an idea so I went with it…

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Didn’t have too much time to experiment this week so I picked up a cool book pile design from Urban Threads this week and put my own little spin on it.

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This week I wanted to have a work through some of the skills that I have been building over the last few weeks and make a fuller design that incorporates a range of tools.

Having been inspired recently by Polish Folk Art, I thought that this would make an interesting challenge…

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This week I have continued my playtime with the digitizing tools available in Hatch Embroidery digitizing software and had a go at turning a basic line drawing into a jacobean-ish crewel-work, but modernized a bit.

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For this adventure I had a play around with the layout features of Hatch Embroidery Digitizing software to see how I could turn one simple digitized object into a larger design.

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