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…
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…
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…
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…
Northwest Bear on Jacket
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…
Essentials Color Sort
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…
AccuQuilt Go!, MacOS Sierra, Windows 10 high-DPI
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…
A Rant
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
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…
Platform/SA version 1.143
Hello, Embrilliant Ones and StitchArtists! We’ve posted 1.143 today which adds a couple nice things.
1.133 – still more!
When we first released the ability to remove stitches hidden under an applique a few versions ago, it sparked some interest and a bunch of conversation. We then released in 1.132 the ability to save a cut file, and preview…
Version 1.132 – News and a free update!
It has been awhile since you’ve heard from us because we’ve been working on some cool new things. Do you like to view embroidery designs in 3D mode? Of course you do – the more realistic, the better. But what…
Version 1.130
Another update? Yes, version 1.130 has been posted. Some of our Mac folk couldn’t get their Mac to right-click, thanks to the legacy of Steve Jobs’ broken driving finger (why else would his mouse only have one button?). But no…
Version 1.128 Embrilliance Platform
Hi, Everyone, We’ve had to correct some issues that occurred in the 1.127 update. We also saw some changes that we had to make which affected a few people, so we’re attempting to make life easier, and we’re sorry for…
Version 1.127 Embrilliance Platform
Hi, It’s been a while since we’ve posted a new version. This latest adds some exciting new technology we’re trying out: –We are extending the Remove Hidden Stitches feature to include applique!
Two New Products!
Hello, all you Embrilliant people! October 31, Halloween, we were able to launch not one, but TWO new products. Each of these works within the same Embrilliance download as Essentials – all you need do is add your new serials…