Our premium digitizing lessons breakdown
Learn the art of embroidery digitizing to create your own stunning designs. Broken down into easy-to-follow sections, explore our expert-led courses below and start bringing your creative ideas to life.
Newbie
Free Embroidery Digitizing 101 Course
In this jam-packed 30 minute course, you’ll not only learn the basics of digitizing like stitch types, underlay, density, registration, mapping, and more, you’ll also build a solid foundation of embroidery theory that’ll help you understand designs & what’s really happening underneath your needle.
This knowledge will help you get better-embroidered results which is why EVERY embroiderer, whether you want to digitize or not, should take this course!
Beginner
Digitizing Theory for Beginner’s 102: The Foundation of Flawless Embroidery
Owning embroidery software is only half the journey—digitizing theory is what brings your designs to life. After all, owning software without understanding theory is like having a calculator without knowing math—things just won’t add up. In this beginner-friendly course, you’ll learn the core rules behind smooth-running, high-quality embroidery. Master the why behind every stitch so you can confidently create and edit designs that look great and run even better.
Intermediate
Hands-On Virtual Digitizer’s Dream Workshop: Learn by Doing, Create with Confidence
Studies show the best way to learn is by seeing and doing—and that’s exactly how this 2-week workshop is designed. You’ll create your first design on day one and master the 3 essential stitch types—the foundation of every embroidery design—with hands-on guidance from a world-renowned expert. If you’re ready to create stunning custom designs, this workshop will fast-track your digitizing skills.
Starts Sept. 13th
Limited spots available.
Expert
Digitizing Masterclass Lessons: Advanced Techniques to Make Your Designs Stand Out
Go beyond the basics and take your digitizing skills to the next level! These advanced masterclasses dive into unique techniques and specialized design styles that set your work apart. Covering long-requested topics never taught before, these lessons are made for serious embroiderers ready to master the art of standout stitching.
I am very grateful to John for sharing his expertise and pointing out what matters when thinking about digitizing embroidery designs. I would recommend the course to anyone.
– Karen S
Christy G 
Julie H
Chris B
Marion W
Karen S
Alveda Z
Ilana
Lisa O
Jesse H
Learn from the world’s most awarded embroidery digitizer, John Deer
As the CEO of Embroidery Legacy, John Deer has won 30 commercial digitizing awards and worked with dozens of fortune 500 companies. John apprenticed under Swiss Schiffli Master Digitizers over 40 years ago in his grandparents’ factory, before computers even entered the digitizing world. To date he is the last Schiffli master digitizer alive and teaching.
John has run 2 commercial embroidery factories, owned one of the world’s largest production digitizing houses, wrote the popular book “Digitizing Made Easy”, and helped coach hundreds of thousands of embroiderers globally.
