- MGM DIAMOND MONOGRAM USING EMBRILLIANCE ESSENTIALS HOW TO
- MGM DIAMOND MONOGRAM USING EMBRILLIANCE ESSENTIALS MANUAL
- MGM DIAMOND MONOGRAM USING EMBRILLIANCE ESSENTIALS SOFTWARE
MGM DIAMOND MONOGRAM USING EMBRILLIANCE ESSENTIALS HOW TO
Then I took some great advice and got Embrilliance Essentials and learned how to combine images, how to install alphabets with bx files, how to move and center objects, how to change the stitch order of projects. I have fallen in love with it! I spent my first couple of days with it just going through the manual, learning how to thread it, how to thread the bobbin, how to move objects on the hoop, how to flip and rotate objects. The machine I have is a one-needle, embroidery-only, 5x7 hoop model: Brother PE770. The excitement has been contagious! I have loved seeing their projects online and it inspired me to step it up and stop "practicing" so that I could make something gift-worthy for the newest baby in our family! Still others are getting back into machine embroidery as a result of the enthusiasm for it in our group. (If you are looking for great tutorials for machine embroidery, be sure to check out Susan's blog!) Secondarily, a number of us recently bought this or similar machines and so we are all learning at about the same time. Two of my "enablers" and mentors in this are Susan of Creations by Suebella 4U and Danita of Danita's Designs.
MGM DIAMOND MONOGRAM USING EMBRILLIANCE ESSENTIALS MANUAL
Step one and SUPER IMPORTANT: After hitting the key to insert text, click the single line/monogram button to let the program know that this is a monogram! Not doing this was my first mistake but no more! This is actually in the manual so I should have known this! (For a link to the Embrilliance manual, scroll down to the bottom of this post under Quick Links!)Īfter many years of wanting one, I finally took the plunge and got an embroidery machine earlier this month! What sealed the deal for me, aside from finding a great price and convincing my husband that this would be a better delayed birthday gift than what he had planned for me, was the fact that several of my very creative paper-crafting friends have the same model and are so generous with sources for the best products and best prices for all the supplies, tools, and files I would need. Paying it forward now since I have learned so much from my papercrafting-friends-turned-embroiderers I thought I would share what I have figured out in that same spirit in the event that it is helpful to someone else! probably not so-secret but I couldn't figure it out easily) I wanted to share what I learned with you. I knew that was NOT how it was supposed to work! My 3-letter monograms were all center format and my 2-letter monograms were left format when I used the bx files. This means that spacing and alignment are done for me (and I still have the option to change and edit those elements).įor some reason (come to find out: many reasons), I was unable to get my monograms to look the way they were designed to look without using the pes files and importing them one letter at a time. With Embrilliance and bx file fonts, I can also type out text just like I do in Word or Excel programs in my office.
MGM DIAMOND MONOGRAM USING EMBRILLIANCE ESSENTIALS SOFTWARE
One of the biggest benefits of using software with an embroidery machine is that I can place my design on a virtual hoop and combine multiple files, editing to add or remove elements. I have loved having Embrilliance Essentials but I have been so surprised by the lack of great tutorials on the features of this program! (I am used to papercrafting where there are so many bloggers and vloggers that every single function has multiple tutorials by the hoards of crafters eager to share!!) I will say that the Embrilliance Essentials program has been fairly intuitive and, either because I have used Cricut Design Space and Adobe Illustrator or because it is just really easy to learn, the program has been a joy to use! It has allowed me to use my one-needle machine, a Brother PE770, as a simple vehicle for stitch out while the software does all the heavy lifting (combining, spacing, previewing) for me! I have had the machine and software for less than a month, and I have loved the ease of use!