Monogramming without a font

Color-sorting with Ink/Stitch

Adding die lines to embroidery designs with Ink/Stitch

Ink/Stitch on top of Inkscape makes producing a die line for embroidery designs that don't have them easy. Both pieces of software are free and open-source, and run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Special-effect fills with Ink/Stitch

Knockdown stitching

A grid of same-color stitching is another way to pin down the pile of minky or terry so the decorative stitching shows clearly. It has the advantage over water-soluble stabilizer that it will also keep neighboring pile from overhanging the stitching. It's a built-in feature of Embrilliance, but for those of us who can't use that for financial or compatibility reasons, it can be done in Ink/Stitch too. Here's how.

The embroidery resizing problem