Welcome to Embrilliance!

Thanks, Before the Stitches fans, for your interest! Read on for special savings, an intro to Embrilliance, and a free project from Lisa Shaw.

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Embroidery Software for Everyone

Want to customize, resize, or personalize designs?  You’ll love Embrilliance! From everything from basic tweaks to custom design creation, Embrilliance has a solution. Embrilliance Essentials opens the door with sizing, composition, and adding names, monograms and text. Embrilliance Enthusiast adds  Knockdown Stitches to manage high-pile fabrics from toweling to fleece, stitch-by-stitch editing, precise positioning, and arranging designs in amazing arrays. The StitchArtist line gives you increasing levels of control for custom creations from simple applique to the most complicated logos and art. Add  the unique design-fixing functions of Density Repair Kit for overly heavy designs in your collection and mapping your classic stitch-file alphabets into fonts with AlphaTricks, and you’ll see that Embrilliance offers solutions for every embroiderer.


Stained Glass Mylar Machine Embroidery Design by Lisa Shaw for Embrilliance

Free Project: Mylar Stained Glass Flower Ornament

This beautiful ornament created by our own Lisa Shaw combines the sparkle of semi-transparent reflective mylar film with the dimensional appeal of embroidery to create an enchanting stained-glass effect.

We’ve included a PDF with complete, step-by-step instructions for stitching and finishing the ornament in the project files.

All you’ll need is a small piece of mylar, fibrous water-soluble stabilizer and your favorite embroidery thread to create this wonderfully dynamic piece for your window, garland, or any display!


The design is provided in our native .BE format, enabling you to save a stitch file for any embroidery machine. If you aren’t already an Embrilliance owner, we provide a free method to use our software called Express Mode that not only allows you to use any of the wonderful free designs found in our project blog, but also enables you to install and create basic text treatments with fonts distributed in our popular .BX format produced by many embroidery design creators.

To learn more about Embrilliance Express and for the instructions and links you need to download, install, and use our software with our free project files, please click here.

We’d love to see how you use our designs; if you’d like to be featured on the Embrilliance project blog, click here to submit your pics!

From the Embrilliance family to yours, we hope that this gift can add a little sparkle to your summer!