Hello, The Embrilliance Platform 1.173 update is now available from our downloads page. It’s main purpose is to provide a new fabric setting for Christmas Traditions Interactive® snowflake designs, allowing you to create a lighter version of the designs meant…
Every year, as it nears the holidays especially, we get requests for information about what computer to purchase, or if there are any benefits to any specific processor, RAM, graphics card, etc. It’s confusing, right? What to get? It doesn’t…
Hello, Platform 1.172 has been released. This is the mainstream release, supporting Merrowly, our new Interactive patchmaking tool. It has increased compatibility with various stitch file formats. As they update, we keep up. Testing an idea, the first new UI…
Introducing The Romance Collection for Embrilliance! The Romance Collection is a collection of fonts and designs digitized natively in StitchArtist for Embrilliance users to enjoy. A bit of history, for those who follow it: This collection was originally released in…
Merrowly Using your Embroidery Machine to make Overlock Stitching or:The Story of a Stitch 150 Years in the Making by Brian Bailie The What Patches. Emblems. Crests. Originally, they were used in garment repair, then for the military, now everyone…
Hello! This is the Embrilliance Platform 1.169 Update announcement. Features in the 1.169 Update: Rotation Points There is a new special object name, “rot” which allows selected designs and objects to rotate around it. This rotation point object is a…
Hi, XP users! We know there are some of you who still use Windows XP. There’s been a change that you might need to know about. As of January 1, 2021, Windows XP must be on service pack 3 (SP3)…
Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2021 has Embrilliance celebrating a near perfect match.
An Historical look at our Christmas Traditions Sometimes reaching back to rejuvenate a classic can also show us the way forward. 2005 saw the first release of a new concept in embroidery designs called Interactives™ for Designer’s Gallery customers. When…
To all of you, we wish a Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings! Would you like an early present? With the release of Christmas Traditions we’re also releasing an update that supports it, 1.167. But why stop there? We have also…
We’ve been working diligently behind the scenes to bring you new features and functions! This version 1.165 update to the Embrilliance Platform is quite extensive. There are new features in many aspects, listed below. 1.166 has a few things not…
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? 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There seems to be some confusion about Designer’s Gallery (DG), its owner and origins. If you’re interested at all, keep reading.
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…