This fun, floral applique embroidery design is more than cute, with its positive and lovely sentiment spelled out in stitches! Customizing this quirky watering can is a wonderful way to turn your favorite fabric scrap into something special with little…
Our friend Lisa Shaw, host of the weekly Facebook broadcast, Afterhours with Lisa, was bombarded with requests for the tiny fruit patches showcased in our most recent newsletter. With comments such as “My mother-in-law is decorating her kitchen in retro…
Are you feeling lucky? You don’t have to be Irish to stitch these designs, but if you do, you could be a winner! Read all the way through to the bottom of this post for details on how you could…
Lisa Shaw created this lovely machine embroidery design with Valentine’s Day decor in mind. This free floral lettering design can be customized with one of three provided centers provided or stitched without the central accent if you prefer a simpler…
If you aren’t familiar with the term “mug rug”, think of it as a mini-quilt made to be an oversized coaster. Mug rugs are the perfect size to hold a cup of cocoa and a cookie for snackers, or for…
The BX format installs both stitch-based and native, object-based fonts, both with powerful tools to back them up, but Embrilliance’s object-based native fonts have super powers that set them apart. Historic Text Tools When we released Essentials in December of…
The sounds of holiday stitching are filling the cold Colorado air around the house of our friend Lisa Shaw of Bubbles’ Menagerie. It may not shape up to be a white Christmas, but she’s still creating holiday cheer with embroidery.…
Did you know that you can use your embroidery machine to stitch out designs that look like they were pieced by a quilter? The type of piecing is sometimes called paper piecing, foundation piecing, or even “stitch and flip” sewing.…
Spruce up your decor for the holidays with this In The Hoop (ITH) coaster and ornament set from our friend, Lisa Shaw. Lisa created her designs using two of our Interactives; the Christmas Traditions design collection and Merrowly Patches. Though…
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…
Here is a quick stitching fun design that can match any outfit! From Thanksgiving to Christmas to Valentine’s, St Patrick’s Day, Patriotic – you get the idea – simply switch up the thread colors and BOOM, matching fringe earrings! …
Are you looking for some spooky but cute free-standing lace earrings to make for Halloween? We’ve got you covered with these cute FSL spiders digitized by Lisa Shaw using Embrilliance StitchArtist. (By the way – FSL stands for Free-Standing Lace…
We’ve got nothing but TREATS for you this Halloween! We created a library of Interactive patch designs you can install directly into the Embrilliance platform. Once you install the library, you will have access to these free INTERACTIVE Patch designs…
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…
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…
Digitizing can be overwhelming for those new to machine embroidery and even experienced embroiderers who have only customized existing designs. For those of you who have wished for a basic, hands-on tutorial to get you started as you learn to…
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…