StitchSwift turns images into embroidery files

StitchSwift is an embroidery digitizing service. You upload a logo, a drawing or a photo, choose how it should be simplified, and get back the files an embroidery machine reads — along with the SVG, the thread list and a report of what was made.

Digitizing is the step between a picture and a stitch path: deciding which shapes become satin, which become fill, where the needle travels between them, and how many thread colours the design is allowed. Doing it by hand is skilled work and takes hours. StitchSwift plans it automatically, from 3 stitch styles you pick before anything is made, so the result is a choice rather than a surprise.

What you get back

PES, DST, EXP, JEF, SEW, VP3, XXX — written from one plan, so the file your machine reads and the preview you approved describe the same design. Every file is read back with an independent parser before it is handed over: the stitch count and the colour count on your result page are what came out of the written file, not what we intended to put in.

Two columns, always

“We can write this format” and “we have watched this format stitch on a real machine” are different claims, and this site keeps them in separate columns everywhere it makes either. We write 7 formats; 1 of them has been watched on a real machine, in part, on a recorded date. The format pages name which commands, and when.

It is a deliberately unflattering way to write a marketing site. “Supported” ranks better than the truth does, which is exactly why the qualification is on the page and not in a footnote.

What we do not claim

Nobody has published a sew-out photo of a StitchSwift design yet. When there is one it will be a photograph of real stitching, taken on a named machine, and not a rendering. Until then the style pages show diagrams and say that is what they are.