Because Laughter is the Best Medicine… … You all know we’ve been trying to come up with fun things for everyone during our Stay Strong and Stitch On! campaign. Well, not everything comes off as expected. Lisa sent this design…
FAQ: Magnets and Embroidery: Friend or Foe?
FAQ: Magnets and Embroidery: Friend or Foe? Are you worried about magnets being near the computerized parts of your machine? You might have cause to be concerned. Rumor has it that most machines remain unaffected by magnets, but yours is…
Stay Strong and Stitch On! #7 – Ideating and Having Fun
Hello, Embrilliant Ones, I was ‘ideating’ the other day: just thinking about all the memes we’re seeing on social media about the world today. That led to a few ideas for silly little bits to put into embroidery. I used…
About ‘Keep Stop’ and other concepts…
Hi! A conversation took place in the StitchArtist Digitizing Fans FB group, and the community got the answers, but they’re buried in comments. Sometimes it’s nice to simply have the answers all put together. 1.) If you have Essentials, right…
Mac Seeming Sluggish? A side of Rant with that?
Hello, A solution for you: Retina Mac owners can greatly improve the graphics performance of many applications (including Embrilliance) by setting the color profile (in System Preferences, Displays, Color tab) to “Generic RGB.” If you love Apple and aren’t a…
FAQ for Designer’s Gallery Owners
Some folks just want the short and sweet, so we’ll try to keep to that. What is happening? The parent of Baby Lock sells both Embrilliance and Designer’s Gallery (DG) brands of software. Several popular titles are made in the…
Embrilliance and Designer’s Gallery Platforms Combined!
Hello, After nearly 20 years to the day, the folks at Baby Lock have retired the Designer’s Gallery (DG) brand that we started together. It’s a sad thing, but not necessarily a bad thing. You see, DG was sold only…
The Origin of Designer’s Gallery
There seems to be some confusion about Designer’s Gallery (DG), its owner and origins. If you’re interested at all, keep reading.
Freestanding Lace Poinsettia – Concept to Creation
The calendar said National Poinsettia Day is December 12th, and that got me sketching. The concept drawing sat on my desk for about a week before Thanksgiving this year. The night before buried us in snow, and it kept coming…
Font Collection 1 Updated to Native-Object .BX installer
Hello, Font Fans, As with the original 12 Essentials fonts, we’ve updated the Font Collection 1 fonts to be StitchArtist-native objects, which means that you can now convert lettering to objects if you have StitchArtist.
Catalina Upgrade Woes
Hi, Everyone, Brian here. We have spent a week researching problems that some (many or most) Quicklook users, including Thumbnailer, are experiencing when they upgrade their Mac from Mojave to Catalina. What we have found is this: New Catalina installs…
Apple ‘Notarization’ for Catalina
Hi! Today is the official release of MacOS ‘Catalina.’ Apple has a new requirement for apps which is called, “Notarization.”
MacOS ‘Catalina’ Full Disk Access
With Catalina, Apple has begun to enforce a new security protocol on your Mac. What this means is that you, the user, need to specifically allow individual programs to be able to access your files and folders. This includes the…
Welcome to Platform Update 1.161
Hi, Folks! Brian here. It has been a long journey getting to this update. Mac Mojave came out, and out, and out again, as they addressed bugs there. Some of this left us chasing to keep up with a moving…
Embrilliance Nominated for 2 Reggie Awards!
We received some exciting news this weekend! Embrilliance was nominated for TWO Reggie awards this year! The Reggies are an annual online award that are put out by the commercial embroidery podcasters 2 Regular Guys Podcast We are THRILLED that…
Platform Version 1.160
Hello, Embrilliance Platform Users, Version 1.160 is rolling out officially, although it has been available for a while to test bugfixes. Various MacOS versions had issues on some Macs, and those seem to be working fine now. A minor adjustment…
The Boss is Away
Yes, this started as a little bit of a joke when Brian went on vacation, but after digitizing and sewing it out, I just had to put this on a golf towel. I decided that “The Boss” has a lot…
Embrilliance Platform 1.159
Hello! The Embrilliance Platform has been upgraded to version 1.159. We’ll roll the version notification during the week when there are more of us around to answer questions. Meanwhile, you heard it here first! Included in this update over version…
Version 1.158 is Posted
Hello and Happy Holidays! A long-time wait is over as we’re releasing Branching in StitchArtist Level 3! We also have a new World’s-First: automatic 3D Foam (known as Puffy Foam by Sulky) underlay in StitchArtist Level 2! A further improvement…
Version 1.156
Hi, All! On some Win 10 4K systems we found that Windows would not accurately report the DPI, so we found another way for that, which seems to be working reasonably. MacOs Sierra has been rather a bit buggy, and…