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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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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A little more “fiddling” about with redwork this week for a sweet little “bless this house” picture.

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Following on from last week’s further steps in redwork I decided to have a go at digitizing a design that would include some motif stitching, a bit like crewel-work.

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Following on from last week’s first steps in redwork I decided to have a go at digitizing a design myself and applying the redwork style to it – it was surprisingly easy!

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This month, in a bid to become more user-confident with the Hatch Embroidery digitizing software, I intend to take a dive into a range of tools, options and features that I have rarely touched on in previous posts, starting with redwork.

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This week I have just been having a play and trying to find new ways of working. After a bunch of hack hunting and tip trawling I discovered a way to be able to apply the motif stitch to a spiral which is not a standard operation in Hatch.

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This week I have been exploring more applique tools in Hatch Embroidery Digitizing software and created a butterfly with organza wings.

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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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Continuing on with my adventures in machine embroidery this week by digitizing a sketched hibiscus flower. Some things worked, some didn’t but it’s all about a personal learning journey so do join me and see what went down.

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This week I decided to build on some of the experiments that I have been doing over the months and try to combine various automatic features of the Hatch embroidery digitizing software with some of the manual digitizing tools.

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It’s time for another adventure in machine embroidery and this time I took what I shared yesterday, with the custom keyfobs, and applied a stitchy style to it!

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