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The easy to use program everyone is talking about!

 

Art and Stitch

standalone digitizing software for longarm quilters and machine embroiderers

 

Have you ever wanted to create art quilts? Use beautiful patterns but you are lacking the true freemotion skills?  Become an artist with the new powerful Art & Stitch program:

With Art and Stitch you can draw your own quilt patterns from scratch, or trace a background image, turn that vector artwork into quilt patterns for your longarm system, you can edit existing patterns (quilt patterns, but also embroidery designs), and you can setup full quilt layouts too. 

Art and Stitch is 4 programs in one: vector drawing, digitizing, conversion and layout software!

 

 

• Use the professional drawing tools to create your quilt patterns: Freehand sketch, Line, Curve, Bezier, 3pt Arc. Edit points/anchors, by selecting and moving them.

 

• Draw from scratch or open an image for (auto)tracing.

 

• Fill shapes with motifs, cross hatching, wave fills, autostipple, Creative background fillers. Use those fills around a design, result will be jumpfree crosshatching, waves, motifs!

 

• Or turn shapes into applique designs with a mouse click (applique for longarm quilting is fun!).

 

• Open vector artwork from Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Pre-Design Studio III,  AutoSketch, ElectricQuilt. You can even paste vectors directly from Pre-Design Studio III, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw and AutoSketch.  Export artwork as Ai, WMF, EMF.

 

• Save in computerized longarm formats DXF, ABM Innova PAT, CompuQuilter CQP, HQ Pro HQF, IntelliQuilter IQP, PC Quilter TXT, QBot PLT, SideSaddle SSD, StatlerStitcher QLI. And save in embroidery machine formats: Brother Babylock Bernina PES, Elna/Janome/Kenmore SE, Janome/Elna JEF, Melco/Bernina EXP, Pfaff PCS, Singer XXX, Tajima DST, Viking SHV, HUS, Viking/Pfaff VIP, VP3.

 

• Open, merge, edit, tweak existing quilt designs (all major formats supported). Open, edit, tweak, merge machine embroidery designs (all major formats supported) - turn your longarm quilt system into the biggest embroidery hoop ever!

 

• Special offer of Art and Stitch is US$ 935. Click here for the order page.

 

 

If you want to be notified of updates, offers and other announcements, ask questions and read tips, please join the ArtandStitch Yahoogroup:

Whether you want a program to quickly create custom patterns using the built-in designs, or want to unleash your creative designing skills: Art & Stitch is for you!

 

Browse this website (Overview page, Tutorials page, FAQ page) for information on this powerful and easy to use software.

 

Loes and Theo van der Heijden, Artistitch v.o.f.

Teaching in May / June 2012:

 

Several Art and Stitch Retreats are organized in May and June 2012:

Click to see our 2012 Class Schedule