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A Memoir

A Memoir

December 17, 2024December 17, 2024 Lead ElfEssentials, News, Product Blogs

This is one of my memoirs about the creation of the Embrilliance Platform. I hope you enjoy my trip down memory lane! -Brian Bailie   It was on an ordinary Thursday in December that we released the program predecessor to…

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The Rewind – Announcing a new Embrilliance Font & Template Collection

The Rewind – Announcing a new Embrilliance Font & Template Collection

February 27, 2024September 27, 2024 Erich CampbellNews, Product Blogs

Though every leap year, we here at BriTon Leap (creators of Embrilliance) tend to celebrate big leaps forward, sometimes those leaps come with a loving look back. In this case, we’re celebrating National Retro Day with a look at our…

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Embrilliance Platform 1.173 Update

Embrilliance Platform 1.173 Update

November 16, 2021October 10, 2024 Lead ElfNews, Product Blogs

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…

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Computer Requirements

Computer Requirements

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Lead ElfProduct Blogs3 Comments on Computer Requirements

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…

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Platform 1.172

September 8, 2021October 10, 2024 Lead ElfNews, Product Blogs, StitchArtist

Hello, Platform 1.172 has been released. This is the mainstream release, supporting PatchArtist, 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…

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Romance Collection

Romance Collection

July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 Lead ElfNews, Product Blogs

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…

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Typographical Treats in 1.170

Typographical Treats in 1.170

April 1, 2021October 14, 2024 Erich CampbellEssentials, News8 Comments on Typographical Treats in 1.170

Though the star of the 1.170 update is far and away Brian’s awesome new Edge tool for patch-making, font-lovers and design personalizers will love the two typographical touches we’ve added in the upcoming release for Embrilliance Essentials users. First, our…

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In Defence of ‘Sloppy’ Embroidery

In Defence of ‘Sloppy’ Embroidery

April 26, 2020April 29, 2020 Erich CampbellProjects, StitchArtist8 Comments on In Defence of ‘Sloppy’ Embroidery

Greetings, Stitchers! Erich Campbell here. Today, rather than present you with another stock design, I figured I’d give you a couple of stories from my embroidery career to help you to stay strong and stitch on, even when you don’t…

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About ‘Keep Stop’ and other concepts…

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Lead ElfEssentials, News

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…

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Catalina Upgrade Woes

October 24, 2019December 24, 2020 Lead ElfNews, Thumbnailer

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…

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Apple ‘Notarization’ for Catalina

October 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Lead ElfDownloads, News, Product Blogs

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

October 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Lead ElfDownloads, News, Product Blogs

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…

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Welcome to Platform Update 1.161

Welcome to Platform Update 1.161

April 18, 2019April 12, 2020 Lead ElfNews, StitchArtist

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…

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Embrilliance Nominated for 2 Reggie Awards!

Embrilliance Nominated for 2 Reggie Awards!

November 18, 2018January 7, 2019 Lead ElfNews, Resellers, StitchArtist

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…

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Version 1.158 is Posted

December 27, 2017December 27, 2017 Lead ElfNews, StitchArtist

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…

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Northwest Bear on Jacket

March 20, 2017December 21, 2017 Lisa ShawProjects, StitchArtist

On display in the Embrilliance booth at SewExpo in Puyallup, WA, we had this gorgeous embroidery of a Northwest bear done by our own Jim Kassing!  It was digitized in StitchArtist and the texture of the stitches compliments the art style…

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Essentials Color Sort

December 19, 2016December 19, 2016 Lead ElfEssentials, News

Hi, friends, The Essentials color sort utility has been updated in 1.155 with a new patent-pending process. It now can open a new view with the sorted file, and we’ve created another World’s first by making the color sort intelligently…

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AccuQuilt Go!, MacOS Sierra, Windows 10 high-DPI

November 9, 2016 Lead ElfEssentials, News

Hello, It’s time for an Embrilliance Platform update, and we’re rolling version 1.154: We have re-launched our partnership with AccuQuilt Go! That company makes many applique dies which work great with machine embroidery. The flexibility of our interactive designs, installed…

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A Rant

January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 Lead ElfEssentials, News

Hi, folks. Time to vent. Over the years, our team has created many world’s firsts in embroidery. As of today, almost everything we have patented is being ‘borrowed’ by others:

Windows 10 Upgrade Fix

January 6, 2016January 6, 2016 Lead ElfEssentials, News, Product Blogs

Hi, all, One of our engineers, Tim, has encountered this state on a few of your computers. These are ones that have been upgraded from Windows 10. In short, Windows 10 has a serious bug. It affects your abilities to…

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