Free In The Hoop LOVE Mug Rug Embroidery Project
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…
Making Embroidery Font History: Stitch-Based Standards and Object-Based Superpowers
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…
Free Gnome Embroidery Design
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.…
Paper Pieced Holiday Tree: A Machine Embroidered Quilting Design
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.…
In The Hoop Snowflake Coaster Project
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 PatchArtist. Though we’ll…
Embrilliance Platform 1.173 Update
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…
Fun Festive Fringe for the Holidays!
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! …
FSL Spooky Spider 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…
Halloween Patch Library 2021
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…
Romance Collection
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…
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…
Platform 1.169 Update
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…
Beginning Digitizing Class
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…
The color of the year is… Embrilliance!
Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2021 has Embrilliance celebrating a near perfect match.
Christmas Traditions Interactive (redux)
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…
Embrilliance Platform 1.167 and 1.168
To all of you, we wish a Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings! Would you like an early present? With the release of Christmas Traditions we’re also releasing an update that supports it, 1.167. But why stop there? We have also…
Blast from the Past – Christmas 2013
Some very special things happened in the winter of 2013 including the introduction of “moddies” or modify-able design libraries. We thought it would be nice as we transition to a new website, that we re-post these libraries from the Embrilliance…
Free Initial Keyfob Design
We know that you enjoy stitching keyfob designs, so we hope that you enjoy this month’s free design from our friend Lisa Shaw of Bubbles’ Menagerie. This project was the focus of one of her “Afterhours” broadcast on her SewBubbles…
Free Statue of Liberty Embroidery Design and Patch Project
Our own Erich Campbell once offered a wonderful light-stitching rendition of the one and only Statue of Liberty for our July 4th festivities, but it never managed to make it to the project blog! We decided to remedy that and…
Free USA Flag-Inspired Scribble Trapunto Embroidery Design for Independence Day
In recognition of the upcoming 4th of July holiday, our own Erich Campbell decided to recreate one of this most popular designs in a more modern format for everyone to enjoy. This larger format design was created with sweatshirts and…