--- product_id: 1548121 title: "Digitizing Made Easy: Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro" price: "£38.67" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1548121-digitizing-made-easy-create-custom-embroidery-designs-like-a-pro store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Digitizing Made Easy: Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro **Price:** £38.67 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Digitizing Made Easy: Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro - **How much does it cost?** £38.67 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1548121-digitizing-made-easy-create-custom-embroidery-designs-like-a-pro) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Digitizing Made Easy: Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro [Deer, John] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Digitizing Made Easy: Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro Review: Good book with lots of useful information - My wife and I have been using digitizing software for the past 10 years, but generally for just adding text and tweaking a few things on residential equipment. We moved into the commercial market this year and have much more advanced software. We were hoping this book would provide better insight into what we should consider when doing professional quality punching. Although this book isn't a full comprehensive encyclopedia that tells you everything you need to know - which there is no such book, it is quite good. It really gives you an insight into the basics of digitizing. Even though it's Christmas weekend as I write this review, we plan on doing some of the suggested samples from the book to learn more about step stitch patterns. The book inspired me to try some things I wouldn't have on my own. I scanned a piece of wallpaper border we have in our bathroom. My wife wants to embroider the design onto a towel from a portion of the wallpaper. I scanned it, imported it as a background into our software and then manually digitized on top of it using some of the advice in the book. Stitched it out and was surprised at how it turned out. We put a step stitch background behind two objects and want to make some changes to these now. The book recommended making samples to figure out what we can do with step stitches. This looks fun and interesting. I'd recommend this book to anyone like ourselves! Review: Theory and Best Practices about Designing Digital Embroidery Patterns - Digitizing made easy? No. Not easy! John Deer has taken 40+ years of machine embroidery design programming experience and consolidated it into 120 pages! That doesn't mean there isn't enough material to learn what needs to be learned, but it will take practice and reviewing the information frequently to learn and put into action. I have not seen anything else like this that teaches best practices and theory in addition to simply teaching how to use software. I believe that by learning the visual ratio at which to digitize, and about things like stitch length and density, a novice design creator has a better chance of creating quality designs. Auto-digitize doesn't work well or I would be using it rather than trying to learn how to use Hatch 3 and other digitizing software. This book echoes the basic principles of design that are in the course material provided by John Deere embroidery legacy. It's good to have the book to reinforce what I've learned in the course videos. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #101,395 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #90 in Embroidery (Books) #137 in Crafts & Hobbies Reference #172 in Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 678 Reviews | ## Images ![Digitizing Made Easy: Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81B4pgOni1L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book with lots of useful information *by M***R on December 23, 2011* My wife and I have been using digitizing software for the past 10 years, but generally for just adding text and tweaking a few things on residential equipment. We moved into the commercial market this year and have much more advanced software. We were hoping this book would provide better insight into what we should consider when doing professional quality punching. Although this book isn't a full comprehensive encyclopedia that tells you everything you need to know - which there is no such book, it is quite good. It really gives you an insight into the basics of digitizing. Even though it's Christmas weekend as I write this review, we plan on doing some of the suggested samples from the book to learn more about step stitch patterns. The book inspired me to try some things I wouldn't have on my own. I scanned a piece of wallpaper border we have in our bathroom. My wife wants to embroider the design onto a towel from a portion of the wallpaper. I scanned it, imported it as a background into our software and then manually digitized on top of it using some of the advice in the book. Stitched it out and was surprised at how it turned out. We put a step stitch background behind two objects and want to make some changes to these now. The book recommended making samples to figure out what we can do with step stitches. This looks fun and interesting. I'd recommend this book to anyone like ourselves! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Theory and Best Practices about Designing Digital Embroidery Patterns *by B***A on December 10, 2023* Digitizing made easy? No. Not easy! John Deer has taken 40+ years of machine embroidery design programming experience and consolidated it into 120 pages! That doesn't mean there isn't enough material to learn what needs to be learned, but it will take practice and reviewing the information frequently to learn and put into action. I have not seen anything else like this that teaches best practices and theory in addition to simply teaching how to use software. I believe that by learning the visual ratio at which to digitize, and about things like stitch length and density, a novice design creator has a better chance of creating quality designs. Auto-digitize doesn't work well or I would be using it rather than trying to learn how to use Hatch 3 and other digitizing software. This book echoes the basic principles of design that are in the course material provided by John Deere embroidery legacy. It's good to have the book to reinforce what I've learned in the course videos. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The only book like it *by P***E on February 16, 2016* Though there are new programs available, such as the terrific Embrilliance suite, some things never change, and this book is proof. This book is like a text book for John Deer's extremely helpful, professional videos, one series for each of the major software programs, which can be found on his Digitizing Made Easy website. If you are at all comfortable using any graphics program, you are way ahead of the game, but as a novice, I was really struggling until I connected the book with the videos for the specific software product I just purchased. It is tremendously helpful to have both this book and those videos open while you are in front of your program. Expensive, time-consuming classes might be available at your local shop, but shops are getting harder to find, and they don't sell my embroidery machine, which is the Singer XL-580, a terrific machine for under $1000.00. A shop owner would have a hard time selling machines for $7,000-$15,000 if her customers had the chance to compare them side by side with the Singer 580, but that's a story for another review. John Deer grew up in the embroidery industry and knows it inside out, from the days of hand-punched paper patterns to the present. This is who you want to teach you to digitize. ## Frequently Bought Together - Digitizing Made Easy: Create Custom Embroidery Designs Like a Pro - Pocket Guide to Stabilizers: Carry-Along Reference Guide (Landauer) 4x6 Sewing Reference for Tear-Away, Cut-Away, Wash-Away, Heat-Away, and Specialty Stabilizers; Choose the Right One for Each Project - Embroidery Business from Home: Business Model and Digitizing Training Course --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1548121-digitizing-made-easy-create-custom-embroidery-designs-like-a-pro](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1548121-digitizing-made-easy-create-custom-embroidery-designs-like-a-pro) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-05*