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Embroidery Digitizing 101: Free Cheat Sheet PDF & Video Course

Embroidery Digitizing 101 for beginners

Learn the basics of creating & editing your own embroidery designs

Whether you want to learn how to create your own designs or not, it’s important to be able to spot a bad one before you waste time stitching it out.  This course will give you a foundation of embroidery digitizing theory that’ll help you understand designs & what’s really happening underneath your needle. You’ll learn:

  • What goes into creating designs with basic digitizing theory
  • The layout of any design with the 3 main stitch types
  • How to hold your designs securely in place with underlay
  • Avoiding stiff bulletproof designs with density
  • Making sure designs line up properly with registration
  • How to avoid jumps & trims with mapping
  • Sew much more

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Whether you want to learn how to create your own designs or not, it’s important to be able to spot a bad one before you waste time stitching it out. This course will give you a foundation of embroidery digitizing theory that’ll help you understand designs & what’s really happening underneath your needle. You’ll learn:

  • What goes into creating designs with basic digitizing theory
  • The layout of any design with the 3 main stitch types
  • How to hold your designs securely in place with underlay
  • Avoiding stiff bullet proof designs with density
  • Making sure designs line up properly with registration
  • How to avoid jumps & trims with mapping
  • Sew much more
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Taught by John Deer, CEO of The Deer’s Embroidery Legacy

Winning 30 commercial digitizing awards, John Deer has been the most awarded embroidery digitizer in the world for over two decades now. As a 4th generation embroiderer, John has an incredibly unique history in the embroidery digitizing industry as he is the last remaining Schiffli Master Digitizer still alive and teaching in North America. John learned and apprenticed under Swiss Schiffli Master Digitizers (then known as “punchers”) over 30 years ago in his grandparents’ factory, before computers even entered the digitizing world.

John has run 2 commercial embroidery factories, owned one of the world’s largest production digitizing houses, wrote the book “Digitizing Made Easy” (which has sold over 44,300 copies), and coached 100,000+ home and commercial embroiderers globally.

If You Own an Embroidery Machine, This Course is For You

Ready to learn the basic digitizing theory that EVERY embroidered should know? If you’re ready to take your machine embroidery to a new level by truly understand what’s happening under your needle, this course is perfect for you. Plus, what do you have to lose? This course is 100% free with no credit card required. Enroll today and take the next step towards perfecting your craft.