Okay, here is the first of many small tutorials on the way. In this lesson I will take you through the steps I take to take this design from artwork form to stitches.
As you can see this is a nice piece of clipart of bread and other good foods arranged in a typical Thanksgiving scene. [...]

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So when I look at a design and try to come up with the beginning stitches I always try to remember that our craft is about poking a lot of holes in to fabrics of one type or another. Then we take those holes and shove 2 pieces of thread into them, pull them tight [...]

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So I am going to approach this from the perspective of explaining the process of embroidery digitizing to someone who has no digitizing experience. What is digitizing? How is it done? Why is it so expensive? etc.
What is embroidery digitizing? Let’s proceed in practical terms. The customer is O’Reilly Auto Parts and they would like [...]

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