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What is Hatch Embroidery Software?
Hatch is an easy-to-use machine embroidery & digitizing software program that’ll quickly transform your creative ideas into reality with professional results. Whether you want to create beautiful designs from scratch, edit designs you purchased, personalize a project with professional lettering and monograms, or simply organize and convert your design files, Hatch is the perfect embroidery software for you.
Hatch Embroidery Software Levels
There are four levels of Hatch to meet your embroidery needs. You can purchase the software all at once with the Digitizer level, or in chunks with the option to easily upgrade as your embroidery skills grow.
Want Exclusive Hatch Bonuses?
Any software program is only as good as the education & support that comes with it. As an official Hatch reseller, when you purchase or download the free trial of Hatch through us, we provide you with every tool necessary to turn your embroidery dreams into a reality quickly & easily.
Purchase Hatch Through Embroidery Legacy & Receive
- Exclusive Bonuses: Including additional ESA fonts and monograms (which you choose yourself from the world’s largest database of over 725 ESA fonts), the five beautiful embroidery designs shown on this page, access to our Digitizer’s Dream Course and more! See which bonuses come with which levels of Hatch below.
- Professional Hatch Education: Taught by John Deer, the world’s most awarded embroidery digitizer for over two decades.
- Access to our “Hatch Facts” Online Community: With over 5700 members, we run the world’s largest interactive Hatch Facebook group on the internet. Share your projects, ask questions, and connect with other likeminded embroiderers.
- Superior Customer Support: We’ll hold your hand every step of the way.
You’re Even Covered by a Full 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
You can relax knowing that after your trial, if you purchase Hatch, you’re covered by a full 30-day money-back guarantee. You’ll have confidence in knowing that if Hatch doesn’t provide you with everything you need to take your embroidery to the next level, we’ll gladly refund your money. That’s how confident we are that this will be the best investment you ever make in your embroidery.
Download your 30-day free Hatch through us and get access to our Digitizing Made Easy Challenge! Whether you’ve never used embroidery software or currently own another brand and want to see the latest and greatest technology available, our 30-day Challenge will take you by the hand and show you how easy it is to create and edit your own designs using Hatch. Within this Challenge, you’ll follow along 7 short video lessons with John Deer, the world’s most awarded digitizer, and create 6 designs yourself from start to finish!
- Part 1: Introduction – This lesson will introduce you to the challenge and cover the main Hatch tools you’ll be using.
- Part 2: Basic Digitizing – Here you’ll create 2 embroidery designs yourself! You’ll learn how to create design outlines, redwork, and learn to properly add basic fills and colors into your designs.
- Part 3: Creative Digitizing – Next, you’ll learn how to digitize more artistic designs using florentine fill effects. You’ll also create another design combining multiple stitch types and learn how to blend fills.
- Part 4: ESA Technology & Quilting Made Easy – Finally, you’ll learn how to easily create custom quilt blocks in minutes! Whether it’s fonts, monograms, quilt blocks, or simple designs, ESA technology really is a software game-changer.
Free Fashion Tiger Embroidery Design
As an added bonus for downloading your 30-day Hatch trial through us, you’ll also be able to download this beautiful embroidery design!
“Hatch is so easy to use
Then add on top all the support from other users and Digitizing Made Easy’s video lessons the possibilities of creativity are endless… Once you go Hatch, your embroidery will never be the same! I encourage you to be a risk taker and go for it!“
– Cynthia Steiner
It’s extremely powerful and very easy to use… I wish I was personally as fast as my software… Embroidery Legacy has tons of videos to help with many questions. They are really well done & easy to follow.“
– Eva Wherle
Hatch is simply the best value on the market in a package that is easy to learn… Without Hatch I would no only be purchasing lots of designs of dubious quality, but I would not be able to make all those personalised gifts for my friends and family.“
– Meryl Robinson
I have had so many different digitizing programs since I started using an embroidery machine… I have been amazed by the Hatch software… You have the chance to go as far as you want to learn the program and classes and support are at your finger tips!“
– Jan Temple
Please keep in mind that we don’t take putting our name behind any product lightly. We couldn’t have made it over 60 years in the embroidery industry without putting our customers first and looking out for your best interests.
Frequently Asked Hatch Questions:
Hatch works with virtually every embroidery machine. Please see the machine formats that Hatch can read and write below. If your format is there, than yes Hatch will work with your machine.
Hatch will read most domestic embroidery file types. It can read the following formats:
- Wilcom: .EMB & .EMX
- Melco: .EXP
- Tajima: .DST
- Janome: .JAN .JEF .JEF+ .JPX .SEW .EMX .EMD
- Bernina: .ART .EXP .ARX .ART70 .ART60 .ART50 .ART42 .ART (V1/2/3/4)
- Brother/Babylock/Deco: .PES .PEC
- Husqvarna/Viking/Pfaff: .VP3 .VIP .SHV .HUS .PCS .PCD .PCQ .PCM
- Singer: .XXX .CSD
- Melco Condensed .CND
- Great Notions .GNC
Hatch can write the following formats:
- Save as: .EMB (.EMB is your “working file”. Although not necessary, it is recommended to save all designs to .EMB before you export to your machine format. This is the best format to edit your designs in the future)
Export designs to:
- .EXP
- .DST
- Janome/Elna: JEF .JPX .SEW .EMD
- Bernina: .EXP
- Brother/Babylock/Deco: .PES . PEC
- Husqvarna/Viking/Pfaff: .VP3 .VIP .SHV .HUS .PCS .PCD .PCQ .PCM
- Singer: .XXX .CSD
- Melco: .EXP
- Tajima: .DST
Unlike some of the other embroidery software trials out there, there are NO limitations to the free 30 day Hatch trial. The trial version of Hatch DOES allow you to save and stitch out your designs. In our opinion, the only way to truly see the quality of any embroidery software is to test stitch outs.
There are 4 levels of the Hatch software. The level of Hatch you’ll need really depends on what you’d like the software for. For example: If you only want to add custom lettering around designs or do monogramming you’ll only need Hatch Personalizer. Or if you’d like to create your own embroidery designs, you’ll need Hatch Digitizer. To view a chart explaining which features are included with each level of Hatch Click Here.
Hatch does not require a dongle to run. It’s a downloadable product which can be used on multiple computers. This is an advantage over other programs which require dongles as you do not need to repurchase the program if a dongle is lost.
Yes. Hatch can be used on up to 3 computers.
