In this week’s article we explain the pull and push effects of machine embroidery and how to use pull compensation to achieve great results every time.
Don't let your threads play tug-of-war! In this article we explain how thread tension can effect the final result of your machine embroidery. We also show you how you can counteract the effect by adjusting your top thread to ensure that your embroidery always comes off the machine looking its absolute best.
Burlap with lace has become a very popular wedding theme in recent years. This beautiful wall art by our guest blogger, Caroline Critchfield, is the perfect decoration piece at the reception and in the marital home after the wedding. Caroline used a gorgeous Hatch font and turned it into a stunning piece of art. Tutorial and video.
Surprise Mom with a beautiful Circle of Flowers embroidery, the perfect gift this Mother’s Day! To help you learn whilst creating her special gift, we have made a video series demonstrating how you can digitize this gorgeous design yourself. Digitizing video tutorial series.
Our Egg-citing Facebook Photo contest was another roaring success. We asked our Facebook followers to submit their Easter themed embroidery creations and we received so many fantastic entries! We asked the top 10 to tell us a little about their embroidery journey and also for some useful tips they would give to other embroiderers.
Easter’s nearly upon us, but there is still time for some last minute embroidery! In this week’s blog article we provide a few Easter egg embroidery ideas and a tutorial video that shows you the features we used to digitize them.
In article we give you useful tips on how to avoid some common pitfalls when manually digitizing. We used our Easter egg design to highlight important elements of the digitizing process such as adding a basting stitch, adding special stitch effects and working out your digitizing and stitch order. Useful Tips and Bonus FREE Easter Egg Design.
There are many FREE designs included in the Hatch Embroidery software. We picked these three beautiful folk birds for a little project that shows you how you can embroider on a difficult type of fabric. The result is a lovely hessian bunting that you can hang up to decorate your balcony or a protected area in your garden. FREE folk bird designs.
When you start out in machine embroidery there are so many different supplies you need to be looking at, it can easily get overwhelming. In this blog post we shed light on the different types of fabrics you can use. We also give you some guidelines to which fabrics are the easiest or best to embroider to ensure great results right from the start.
You have got to love animals. We admire them in the wild, and as pets they brighten our days with their loyalty and funny antics. No wonder animals are a very popular subject of embroidery. In this post we collected a bunch of animal themed embroidery that are a bit different, edgy and even arty.
It goes without saying that needles are an absolutely pivotal aspect of machine embroidery. Choosing the right needle out of a seemingly endless amount of choice and confusing information on the internet gets overwhelming very quickly! We put together a quick guide to give you a clear picture of the most important things you need to consider when shopping for embroidery needles for your projects.
Our Valentine's Day Facebook Photo contest was a roaring success. We asked our followers to submit their Valentine's Day themed embroidery creations and we received many amazing entries. It was fantastic to see how creative everyone got! It was obvious that a lot of LOVE went into the the contestants' work.