Courses

Mastering Connectors, Tie In, Tie Off, Trims, Auto Jumps

Connectors, trims, jumps, tie in, and tie off are all functions that every design have and affect the design quality. Yet, very few users understand them and are confused when to use them. Learn in this course how and when to use them.

Registration & Compensation in EMB Designs

Why does my design have gaps when stitched out? What does it mean when I'm told my design has registration problems or I need to use Compensation? This course will answer those questions and show you what, why, when, and how to solve them!

How to Digitize - A Beginners Workshop

Unlock your full creative potential with the Digitizer 3 Premium content bundle. Explore advanced techniques, exclusive tutorials, and expert tips to master Hatch Embroidery Digitizer 3. Elevate your designs and skillset with our tailored content.

Getting Started with Hatch Composer 3

Composer is the perfect tool to unleash your creativity. In addition to all the features and tools included in Organizer and Personalizer, Composer adds powerful editing, layout, and auto-digitizing tools. Let's take a quick look.

Getting Started with Embroidery

Learn the basics of setting up your software and getting started with Hatch Embroidery. The perfect beginner's journey.

How to Digitize - A Beginners Workshop

Created for beginners from start to finish, learn the basics, theory, settings, and editing needed to advance your digitizing skills. A hands-on approach to successful digitizing.

Getting Started with Hatch Personalizer 3

Lettering, Monograms, Design Library or simply learning how to change colors, resize designs, set up your fabric and threads, and customize your designs in this FREE course. Get up and running fast with Hatch Embroidery Personalizer 3!

Digitizing Simple but Complex Designs with the Bluebell Flower

Do you ever look at artwork and think this will be easy, only to start digitizing it and realize the design is more complex that you realized? This is a course designed to help you analyze a design from start to finish before you start!

Analyzing Artwork & Existing Designs with the Daisy

This course focuses on learning to think like a digitizer. We'll analyze artwork and a couple of finished designs to understand the choices that must be considered both before and during digitizing.

Happy Easter - free design to bring smiles to any of your gifts

A Free design that is happy, bright and will make anyone smile when you add it to their gift!

Father's Day in-the-Hoop Passport Cover

A fun ITH project for Dad or anyone who travels. Using cork as the fabric, combine auto-digitizing and manual digitizing techniques to create a travel logo and monogram for a passport cover.

Mother's Day: World's Best Mom AA-20

Create a sweet Mother’s Day design, combining manual digitizing, lettering, and shapes in Hatch Digitizer.

Digitizing an Appliqué Floral Block with Quilting In-the-Hoop

You don’t always have to start from scratch to create unique designs. In this course, we will show you how to use existing designs, simple shapes, and Hatch tools to create a unique applique quilt block that you can quilt in the hoop.

Creating Your Own Borders & Shapes

All designs start with some type of shape. This course will teach you how Hatch allows you to create your shapes and save them so that you can use them over and over.

Valentine Project: Overlapping Cutout Letters

Create a Valentine's Day project while learning how to cut out overlapping letters, using the ripple stitch and motif borders. Looks so hard to do, but Hatch makes it easy!

Getting Started with Hatch 3: Part 1 Introduction to Managing your Software and Designs

An introduction to Getting Started with Hatch 3. Managing your software and designs.

Getting Started with Hatch 3: Part 2 Design Basics & Lettering

In part 2 of your Hatch Journey, learn the basics of an embroidery design, customizing and editing designs, and adding lettering and monograms.

Getting Started with Hatch 3: Part 3 Digitizing Methods in Hatch Embroidery

Learn the many methods of digitizing that Hatch has to offer. Create an applique project. Learn how to create basic patches.

Getting Started with Hatch 3: Part 4 Multi-Hooping

The tools in the Multi-Hooping toolbox make it easy to break up a large design into sections that can be sewn in a smaller hoop with multiple hoopings. The tools are arranged in the order you mostly like to use them.

Getting Started with Hatch 3: Part 5 Keyboard Design Collection (KDC)

Do you have letters that you have from other sources, and you want to use in Hatch? Keyboard Design Collection (KDC) will help you map them to your keyboard. You can then use with multiple baselines and much more.

Hatch GEM - CorelDRAW Standard - Getting Started

This is a beginning course in learning the basic tools in CorelDRAW that you will use for Hatch embroidery images. 13 lessons, each building upon the previous one.

Holiday Edition - Learning to Digitize with the Freehand tool

Learn to use the Freehand Tool in this Holiday Edition of Hatch Academy

Digitizing Plaid

“Plaid fills” have become popular with embroidery designs. In this course, we’ll digitize plaid and then put it to use for ornaments and a larger appliqué design.

Charms: Beyond the Basic Patch

In this course, we will expand on the Digitizing a Basic Patch course found in Embroidery Basics where we take existing designs to make them into a patch. We have lots of fun "charms" just in time for quick gifts!

Digitizing a Basic Patch

How to easily create a badge or patch using convert to applique or manually digitizing it.

Fun Summer Projects with the Laydown Stitch

Learn when and how to use the Laydown Stitch in Hatch 3. Available in Digitizer, Composer, and Personalizer levels.Have fun creating a quick and easy beach towel while learning the ins and outs of the Laydown stitch.

Getting Started with Hatch 3 Personalizer

Lettering, Monograms, Design Library or simply learning how to change colors, resize designs, set up your fabric and threads, and customize your designs in this FREE course. Get up and running fast with Hatch Embroidery Personalizer 3!

3D Flowers with Hatch's Hand Stitch

Learn how to create beautiful free-standing 3D flowers in this original project by Mai, the main digitizer at Hatch. We’ll be using the Hand Stitch effect, which is new in Hatch 3 to create a more organic and natural appearance to our designs.

Digitizing the Rose Lace Bookmark - Part 3

Part 3 of 3 in this series. Starting with the lace bookmark you digitized in course 2, our beginner level will digitize a rose to place on top of the bookmark. The advanced challenge will learn how to make this a cutout rose in the bookmark.

Personalizing Your FSL Bookmark - Part 2

Part 2 of 3 of Making Lace with Hatch Motifs Series. In this lesson, you'll learn how to add lettering and how to cut out the lace behind the lettering. We have both a beginner's project and an advanced project.

Creating Free-Standing Lacework with Hatch Motifs - Part 1

Part 1 of 3 Digitizing lace with Hatch motifs. In this course, you'll start with the basics of making lace with a beginner project and more advanced manually digitizing parts of your lace bookmark

Digitizing the Rose - Shading - Part 3

In this part 3, Digitizing the Rose, you will grow your skills as we take you step-by-step through learning to shade and highlight your design.

Digitizing Variations for the Rose - Part 2

Part 2 of 3 of a series of courses on how to digitize. In this course, you will learn how to use Hatch tools to make creative variations of your digitized rose.

Digitizing the Rose - Basics Part 1

Part 1 of 3 of a series of courses on how to digitize. In this course, you will learn what to do before you start and learn to digitize an outline and beginners filled rose.

Getting Started with Hatch 3 Organizer

Organizing your designs in the Design Library or simply learning how to change colors, resize designs, set up your fabric and threads, and customize your designs? This FREE course will get you up and running fast with Hatch Embroidery Organizer 3!

Digitizing patches and badges

How to easily create a badge or patch using convert to applique or manually digitizing it.

Hand Stitch

In these 3 lessons you'll learn how to apply Hand Stitch to both outlines and fills, how to adjust Hand Stitch settings and other properties to instantly add texture, pattern, interest, a sketchy look, and realism to designs.

Digitizing & Coloring a Line Art Design

Why color on paper when you can color embroidery? These 5 lessons will show you how to digitize your linework in Hatch and then color with coloring pencils or crayons or your choice of fabric pens, paints, etc.

Shading the Tulip

Beginning Shading. Learn how to add shading and detail to a design to create more realistic embroidery. This is an intermediate embroidery course where we will begin to learn the basics of shading and adding details to designs.

Beyond the Basics with Lettering

Hatch lettering is so easy if you know a few rules and guidelines to get the best results. In this lesson, we will review the basics, learn about the join methods, resizing lettering, outlining fonts, and working with multi-color fonts.

30 min. ITH Hat Fob Project

Do you need to take along a hat and nowhere to keep it? Learn how to make this simple and quick "hat fob". It's great for the beach, pool, sports, or anytime!

Embroidery Basics

Learn the basics of embroidery including fabrics, needles, threads, digitizing and machines.

Projects & Tutorials

400+ lessons filled with projects and tutorials designed by our Hatch experts. Available to all Hatch Embroidery software owners.

Hatch Embroidery Training

Master your Hatch Embroidery software with these practical how-to training courses.
Over 300 lessons included in these courses.

Hatch Toolboxes HT

Hatch Toolboxes is the first place you will start when working with your designs

Hatch Toolbars HTB

You will use the tools on several Toolbars every time you use the Hatch software. Learn what the toolbars are called, what tools are included, and how and when to use them.

Hatch Dockers HTD

What are all those "things" on the side of my screen? Dockers! Learn what they are for and when and how to use them in this course.

What you need to know to get started

This course has 18+ lessons to help you get started with embroidery. Formats, fabrics, hoops, graphics, and more.

Machine Embroidery 101

Be in the know before you sew! In this course we'll take you through what you need to know about embroidery machines.

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