Sammy Birth Announcement

Project Description

A friend of mine came to me with a photo of a birth announcement she’d seen at a baby shower and asked if I could reproduce it. I recognized the fonts as similar to, if not the same as, ones I’d already digitized so it wasn’t too difficult.

She needed it to fit a 5×7″ sewing field, so that information combined with the baby’s details was all I needed to reproduce her photo.

I liked the layout and since my niece had recently given birth to a baby boy, I adapted the layout for him. Of course, she never actually got it since it became a resident of my traveling sample case.

Funny Little Story: You might think my house is filled with embroidery. It is, sort of, but only in high concentrations in travel cases ready to go to the next show.

Fonts used: Hobo, Rachel, Helvetica Narrow plus a candle wicking motif.

I set this up in my digitizing software where all my fonts live as closest point keyboard fonts. Once I have my design set up, I can easily customize it for another baby.

Caution: I did have to significantly distort some of the characters to match the photo and that can work better in a digitizing program where you still have the object as opposed to working with a stitch file font. (All BX fonts are stitch file fonts.)

You can do a similar setup in Embrilliance Essentials. Create a master “template” using the fonts you want. Then simply replace names, dates, weights, etc. and adjust the colors and Save As.

The beauty of using the BX format and Essentials is that text is still editable as text as long as you save the working (BE) file in addition to your stitch file. No need to recreate everything from scratch each time (like some other big-name big dollar programs!).

Obviously really long or short names might pose a design problem.

For a short same, you might add in some other little embellishment to the size.

One of the Building Block designs might work well as a filler. Another option would be to choose a font that fills the space differently.

What about those candle wicking dots? If you have Stitch Artist, those are easy. If you only have Essentials, look through your fonts. A small asterisk or a series of periods can replace the candle wicking motif I used.

Where Can I Get This Design?

You’ll have to recreate it yourself using the fonts provided.

Yes, I could make a template for it but it would require that you have either Embrilliance Essentials or Embroidery Works and based on the questions I field about BX fonts, I think it would result in too many support questions.