Christmas begins with Christ inscription machine embroidery design - 2 sizes

By knowing the speed of your embroidery machine, you can find out how long it will take to embroider a design.
To use the embroidery calculator, click on the number of stitches in the product description.

Size: 98.2x116.6 mm (3.87x4.59 "), Stitches: 9273
Size: 107.9x128.1 mm (4.25x5.04 "), Stitches: 10234
Formats: .pes, .pec, .hus, .vip, .dst, .exp, .sew, .exp, .dat, .vp3, .jef, xxx

Machine embroidery designs should be used only from certified sources.

Machine embroidery designs make up a really big part of the success of every embroidery project. Thus, it’s quite important to use only high-quality designs.

How do you know that design is of high quality? Well, here is where the experience plays its part. You can either learn the art of digitizing yourself (which is useful, but also really time-consuming). Another option is always to check the source that you get your designs from. The most trustworthy sources are manufacturers of embroidery machines, machine embroidery design shops (both on-land and on-line) with long operational time and digitizing professionals. Among all of them, it’s the latter (professional digitizers) that are most difficult to find. Online forums (where design sharing is quite common) and other free design downloading sites are the most untrustworthy quality-wise. Now, we know, that the last sentence might arouse quite an argument amidst funs of free downloads and sharing. But let us explain why it’s so and what issues such unreliable sources bring into the craft.

Let’s start with the quality of design. An impeccably digitized machine embroidery design is always created according to the demands of a particular fabric (its structure and properties). In general, when digitizing designs for sale, professionals use the so-to-say “neutral” fabric demands (flat surface, non-stretchy, medium weight, etc.) When a design is downloaded and opened (on, say, a home computer) with particular embroidery software, the settings might get changed. For example, various programs read designs’ arrangement of stitching differently (they change them according to their operational preferences). These changes are usually minor and don’t affect the quality of the final embroidery result in a major way. However, an embroiderer might want to further alter the design’s setting to suit its particular project. So the design gets another layer of changes.

At this stage the final embroidery result is sound.Go on reading our blog Choosing fabric for machine embroidery. Part 4