| One of the most effective and visually pleasing | | | | transferring print image to and embroidery |
| ways to decorate a home is by using embroidery | | | | pattern can be an exciting challenge for those |
| or cross-stitch designs. Each embroidery design is | | | | who are up to it. It takes years to master this |
| unique and special. Embroidery has its own | | | | skill, but it is a skill worth having because it is |
| simplistic beauty that few other decorations can | | | | immensely satisfying to create a beautiful work |
| equal. However, while embroidering and | | | | of art, and embroidery is one of the |
| cross-stitching by hand can be very satisfying and | | | | underestimated forms of art. |
| enjoyable, most people have neither the time nor | | | | When it comes to buying embroidery digitizing, |
| the patience to accomplish the task. That is the | | | | several factors contribute to the actual price. |
| wonderful thing about embroidery digitizing. With | | | | Most people assume that the stitch-count is the |
| embroidery digitizing, people have access to the | | | | most important factor; however, this is not true. |
| delightful, "home-made" decorations that enchant | | | | The most important factor is in fact the |
| the senses without requiring the owner to spend | | | | complexity of the pattern. As all by-hand |
| weeks, or even months, placing each and every | | | | embroiders know, stitching a large shape may |
| stitch. | | | | take more stitches than the intricate details do, |
| Most people don't realize that their embroidery | | | | but the large shapes are infinitely easier to |
| designs can be put into a computer and then | | | | complete than the intricate details. The same |
| created by a sewing machine. Embroidery digitizing | | | | applies to digitized embroidery. The simpler the |
| is the process of transferring a picture or group | | | | picture, the easier it will be to digitized the pattern. |
| of words into a language a sewing machine can | | | | Not all images can be transferred to an |
| understand. Following the transferring of the | | | | embroidery pattern though. Embroidery is quite a |
| image, the sewing machine then stitches the | | | | different form of art than most people are used |
| design out, creating a simple piece of artwork in | | | | to, which means that it requires very different |
| very little time. The actual creation of the | | | | types of artwork. An accomplished embroidery |
| embroidery is by far the easiest part of the | | | | digitizer may be able to convert almost anything |
| process. | | | | into an embroidery design, but some images are |
| Embroidery digitizing is not necessarily easy, | | | | better left in print. For some images, it may just |
| however. It is actually a rather complex process. | | | | be easier to simply create a design from scratch |
| For starters, it uses three different types of | | | | that is based on the picture, rather than going |
| stitches: running, satin, and fill. These three types | | | | through the process of converting the picture |
| of stitches help ensure that the design is | | | | directly. |
| transferred from print to picture in the smoothest | | | | All in all, embroidery digitizing is a wonderful art in |
| fashion possible. Transferring a picture to a | | | | and of itself. It most definitely takes less time to |
| format a sewing machine can read and duplicate is | | | | create a digitized embroidery piece, but the actual |
| the hardest part, however. Simply pushing the | | | | process is significantly more complicated. |
| "transfer" button won't work. Most pictures and | | | | However, digitized embroidery can create |
| images weren't made to be in an embroidered | | | | masterpieces that most people could not possibly |
| form. Once the transfer is made, someone has to | | | | make by hand. Embroidery artwork is an |
| manually change colors, shapes, lines, and many | | | | enchanting way to decorate the home, and |
| other things to make the design more accessible | | | | Digitized emboridery makes this more possible |
| to the sewing machine. The process of | | | | than ever before. |