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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 27

August 28, 2022August 24, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter1 Comment

You’ve seen those fancy embroidered word flowers, right? Well, I’m giving those a try this week!

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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 26 – Making A Baroque Style Monogram

August 14, 2022August 13, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter1 Comment

The other week, as part of my ‘normal’ design work, I created a baroque style frame for digital cutting machines and whilst I was thinking of what to do with the machine embroidery this week, I thought that this design would make look wonderful as an embroidered design.

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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 25 – A Home For A Gnome

July 24, 2022July 20, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter3 Comments

This week I wanted to try some of the original digitizing tools in conjunction with some of the new effects including the hand-stitch effect so I created a cute wee gnome illustration and set to work …

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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 24 – A Quick Go With The Magical Cross Stitch GEM

July 17, 2022July 8, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter4 Comments

Continuing my explorations into the NEW Hatch 3 embroidery digitizing software this week and I have been itching at the bit to have a go with the new cross stitch creation module of the software, so, I did!

PS, there’s a free .EMB stitch file to nab too!

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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 23 – Reef Photo Stitch

July 10, 2022June 25, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter1 Comment

Last week I introduced you to the new version of Hatch Embroidery digitizing software and promised a few more focused videos. So here is the first!

This one focuses on the new reef photo stitch feature. There is a free embroidery file included too!

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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 22 – A Fancy Pants Software Update

July 3, 2022June 25, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter1 Comment

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 21

May 29, 2022April 22, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter1 Comment

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 20

May 22, 2022April 22, 2022 John - Gentleman CrafterLeave a comment

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 19

May 15, 2022April 22, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter4 Comments

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 18

May 8, 2022April 21, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter1 Comment

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 17

May 1, 2022April 21, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter2 Comments

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 16

April 24, 2022March 19, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter2 Comments

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 15

April 17, 2022March 16, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter2 Comments

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 14

April 10, 2022March 16, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter2 Comments

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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Adventures In Machine Embroidery 2022 Part 13

April 3, 2022March 16, 2022 John - Gentleman Crafter1 Comment

This week I took a look at a simple way of taking an element of one design and quickly creating a completely unique design from the sampled element.

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