I stitched it out on some “linen look” cotton fabric using medium weight tear away stabilizer. So it will take about 40 minutes to stitch out, not counting the time it takes me to rethread the machine between colors. Wilcom thinks it will look very nice! There are a little over 14,000 stitches. I tweaked the fill angles a bit and reordered some of the objects for easier to cut jump stitches, but otherwise left it as-is. I ran it through the auto-digitizer, setting a blue fill for the body and white fill for the eyeballs.
I used this adorable octopus, which Chris designed for hand embroidery on a dress I made a few years ago. So I’m playing around with it and today I gave the auto-digitizer a spin. It’s a full featured digitizer with a (theoretically) easier to use interface. The prohibitive cost of the software ($1000+) means I probably won’t be doing so any time soon, but Wilcom has a new package called Hatch which I downloaded a 30 day trial of. I definitely want to learn to digitize my own files for embroidery.
