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…