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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hi! Today is the official release of MacOS ‘Catalina.’ Apple has a new requirement for apps which is called, “Notarization.”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:
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…
Hello, Embrilliant Ones and StitchArtists! We’ve posted 1.143 today which adds a couple nice things.
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…
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…