designsbylittlebee

I have been embroidering since the summer of 2011, when my husband bought me my first single-needle embroidery machine for my birthday. I tired of the 4x4-inch embroidery field pretty quickly, and with my earnings from that year I paid cash for a larger single-needle embroidery machine and began building a reputation locally for doing quality work.
In April of 2014, my husband helped me purchase a Brother 6-needle machine and my work has skyrocketed - in both quality and quantity. With my profits from 2014 I purchased some basic digitizing software so I can create my own unique embroidery designs with the home embroiderer in mind.
One thing I've learned about digitizing is that it is HARD. It is time-consuming, requires a lot of skill and practice, and if you forget or mess up one step, you can screw up an entire design. I always had respect for the digitizers from whom I regularly purchased, but since I began doing it myself, I have been blown away at the amount of time it truly takes to create a good design and make sure it stitches properly. Draw/find clip art, photograph, digitize, test, digitize, test, digitize, digitize, test, correct, digitize, test, photograph, save, list, and hopefully sell. I love to use clip art from great artists, but that has its own pitfalls as well, if another digitizer uses the same thing. There are so many things to think about when digitizing, but the process is continually exciting and challenging for me as an artist and as a woman who works from home, balancing all those roles as well!