Category: Education
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Make your own Embroidery Color Catalog
One of the things that comes up in our lives periodically is when you show your customers a thread book from a manufacture and they are overwhelmed with colors. They also ALWAYS manage to pick the one color you don’t have. Here is our Nerdy solution to this. We developed both a standard Word template, […]
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Understanding Distortion
Typically one of the most simple, yet complicated topics in embroidery is Distortion. It seems quite frequently I’m asked why this outline is off, or how come my letters look different sizes? Often this is followed by “It looks perfect in the software”. The Crux of anyone starting out on a digitizing journey is understanding […]
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Chroma Styles
Check out this video on how to create custom Styles in Chroma Luxe!
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Deep Dive: DST File Gripes
Us Nerds lurk inside a ton of Facebook groups and other web based forums that contain people with a range of experience in embroidery. Often times we see newer people ask this question– Why don’t my expensive machine and software communicate properly and send the correct colors via a DST file? It’s a very common […]
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Setting Default Thread Charts and Colors in Chroma
In this short clip I discuss how to set the default thread chart and thread colors for new files in Ricoma Chroma
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Importing Embroidery Thread Charts into Adobe Illustrator
If you’re like me you do a lot of patch designs in Illustrator. When doing this you use the standard Adobe color pallet. You can certainly make designs with the default one, but then you need to change the colors in your digitizing software to see the final colors. This article will show you how […]
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NeedleEase Tool Review
NeedleEase is one of the tools we think every embroidery shop should have. It doesn’t matter if you are running a small home embroidery machine with one needle, or you’re running several 12 head machines. The NeedleEase saves you so much time in replacing broken needles on your machines by assisting in aligning them in […]
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Fixing Tight Tension Knobs on your Embroidery Machine
If your embroidery machine tension knobs are hard to turn you can still fix them without replacing them. The issue with tight knobs is that you subconsciously think that you are applying too much tension, when in fact you are not doing so. Follow this quick video to see how to remedy this on your […]
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How to protect yourself from scammers
We all come across someone that is trying to scam, rip us off, or just try to get lower pricing at some point of our time in this venue. Sometimes you don’t catch it and it can cost you big money. In my case I did lose a bit. Follow along with this article to […]
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The making of a spindle encoder for a Janome MB4
While I am not a full time embroiderer, I am a full time nerd. So, this project incorporated all of my hobbies. It might be overly niche, but I found it useful. Here is goes: “I have become an embroidery technician, not by choice, but out of necessity.” I purchased a “basket case” Janome MB4S […]