Digitizing Made Easy: Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro

I am interested in purchasing lettering software for my embroidery machine and wondered if anyone had any recommendations? I do not want to spend a lot of money.

A: I highly recommend Embird. You can buy it in portions. They not only have Font Engine which will auto digitize all true type fonts but also sell nice alphabets for 10-15.00 each in your machine format You would just need to get Embird Basic and the

Sisters aim to sew-up Kiwi market

Alice Brotherston has bucked the trend.

After living in Australia for 30 years, she returned to New Zealand to pursue a new business opportunity.

She and husband John linked up with her sister, Gail Jory - who worked at a Tauranga woollen knitwear factory for 26 years - and established a retail business specialising in machine embroidery.

Alice's Cre8ive Embroidery, based at Mount Maunganui, has moved the handicraft into the modern world of digital software, producing more elaborate and wider range of designs.

The family-owned company has the exclusive New Zealand rights to market the Creative DRAWings computer programme, which allows embroiderers to create and personalise their own designs.

The business idea, mind you, was developed in Australia. "My sister and I have been doing machine embroidery for a number of years,"Alice said.

"She wasn't able to get simple things like stabilisers and other little nicknacks in New Zealand and I used to send them to her. We decided there was a market for machine embroidery products in New Zealand, selling direct to the public."

Source: The Bay of Plenty Times

Embroidery Digitizing Basics

However, all of the machine embroidery of the past was done by very large and expensive machines housed within specialty businesses. Thanks to the declining costs of computers and technology advances, home sewers now have the capability of doing custom machine embroidery in their own homes. In the past if you were a business and wanted your logos sewn onto baseball hats or other promotional items, then you went to a custom embroidery business and they did it for you....

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