Think you need to digitize
to create custom embroidery designs? Think again!

Think you need to digitize to create custom embroidery designs? Think again!

Design Doodler is the new addictive software that quickly converts doodles into machine- ready embroidery designs – without digitizing!

Start making my own designs

Only $399.95

“I was converting drawings to stitches within minutes!”

Ann C.

“I was converting drawings to stitches within minutes!”

— Ann C.

Only $399.95

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Available on PC & iPad
Bonus course ($99.95 value)

14-Day Full Money-Back Guarantee
Available on PC & iPad
Bonus course ($99.95 value)

Start making my own designs

Only $399.95

*Includes Bonus Training Videos

Now everyone can design… doodle, sketch, and trace…

Can’t Draw? Just Trace a Photo!

Doodle, sketch, and trace your way to custom embroidery designs. If you can hold a pencil, you can make a design. It’s even great for kids! See what you can make in the Design Doodler:

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Embroidery fun for everyone

Get Design Doodler today and start doodling your next embroidery design. Every purchase includes:

14-Day Money Back Guarantee

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PC Software + iPad Companion App

Design anywhere

FREE Bonus Education Course

$99.95 value

Only $399.95

Professional Software: ~$1,200+

Hiring a Digitizer: ~$50/design

Design Doodler: $399.95 (one-time payment)

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Who is the Design Doodler for?

Hobbyist

Embroidery is a fun outlet for your creativity! Take it a step further with this program by being able to sketch, trace or doodle your own gorgeous designs without the technical aspect of digitizing. It’s addictive!

Beginner Embroiderers

Looking to lessen the learning curve? You have a lot to learn as is, why add more? The Design Doodler is one of the easiest softwares you’ll ever use for creating your own designs. Do more, sooner!

Experienced Embroiderers

Even if you’re an experienced embroiderer who already digitizes, the doodler allows you to save time by creating simple, fun designs anytime, any place. Plus, it’s so user-friendly it’s fun for the entire family!

Hobbyist

Beginner Embroiderers

Looking to lessen the learning curve? You have a lot to learn as is, why add more? The Design Doodler is one of the easiest softwares you’ll ever use for creating your own designs. Do more, sooner!

Experienced Embroiderers

Design Doodler Features

Watch your ideas come to life

Create your next design for your embroidery or quilting machine without a second of digitizing. Gorgeous appliques, smooth runs, and incredible art – you can do it all with Design Doodler.

Doodle anything, anytime

iPad companion app included with every purchase. From coach to couch you can make gorgeous embroidery designs anywhere. Try finger painting style or grab a tablet pencil and feel like an artist!

Go wherever your imagination takes you

Powerful editing tools allow you to make designs as simple or complex as you want. Fix lines, adjust thread length, mix colors, choose stitch type, add effects, and more – all in a few clicks.

Trace your way to beauty

Not everyone can draw, but anyone can trace! Upload images into Design Doodler and trace every detail in minutes. From holiday photos to downloaded images, you can trace it all.

Get started quickly

Design Doodler might be the easiest software you’ve ever used. Begin doodling the moment you open it and watch your drawing instantly turn into stitches.

Every purchase includes Bonus Course

Enjoy 10+ video lessons designed to help you fall in love with Design Doodler!

Learn the fundamentals of the software, its tools, and how to start doodling. Then stitch along step-by-step as talented creators teach you how to create 6 different projects across separate beginner, intermediate, and advanced tutorials (artwork included)! Meet your instructors:

John Deer

CEO of Embroidery Legacy

Quickly learn software tools, tips and tricks to help familiarize you with Design Doodler.

Linda Rayburn

Expert Embroiderer

Create a sketch work cow, colorful filled flowers, and a color blended orange.

Daryl Stephenson

Expert Artist

Create a cartoon baby, a classic truck, and a boy sitting in a field with a butterfly.

John Deer

CEO of Embroidery Legacy

Quickly learn software tools, tips and tricks to help familiarize you with Design Doodler.

Linda Rayburn

Expert Embroiderer

Create a sketch work cow, colorful filled flowers, and a color blended orange.

Daryl Stephenson

Expert Artist

Create a cartoon baby, a classic truck, and a boy sitting in a field with a butterfly.

Here’s what John Deer thinks about the Design Doodler

“The Design Doodler will add an extra layer of creativity to anyone who owns an embroidery machine. It truly is embroidery fun for everyone!

It’s easy to use interface and intuitive programming ensures quality results. This software will provide fun results for those with little or no experience, while also having the properties, tools, and controls available to grow with your creativity and experience. I can’t wait for you to try it!”

John Deer

CEO of Embroidery Legacy

What our customers are saying

Shelley B Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

I was very surprised to see the doodler come out. It’s what I had been dreaming about - being able to draw my creations and stitch them on my items! I’ve just started, but I am already seeing the amazing possibilities.

Gill B Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

"The Design Doodler is an amazing piece of software that I highly recommend. Along with the software there is fantastic support, Lessons and videos with easy instructions on how to use it. I am so excited and thankful to John Deer and his team. "

Diane C Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

Design Doodler has so much support and amazing videos, that it makes it fun to create my own designs

Rena Z Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

I love Design Doodler. It’s so much easier with the pen on the iPad. I like to scribble in free form, which is more my style than tracing accurately.

Dawn K Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

I purchased Design Doodler and I am absolutely in love with it. All the other digitizing programs either were very difficult to learn or priced out of my budget.

Christine S Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

Thank you for introducing me to Design Doodle. Thanks to your great free training videos, marvelous results can be quickly obtained even for non-specialists in digitizing. The app is easy and intuitive.

Allison F Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

I’m brand new to machine embroidery, and the amount of software out there is absolutely mind-boggling. Compared to $1,000+ software, this was a more reasonable investment to get started. You’ll need to put a couple of hours into the tutorial videos, but this is very easy software to pick up and quality results when transferring to a machine after minimal training. I stitched out a high-quality CUSTOM piece within 4 work hours of downloading the software.

Betty W Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

I think the Design Doodler is great! It is a fun way to learn, and I am going to show it to my grandchildren, who will probably show me how to doodle better.

Cheryl C Reviewer Verified

★★★★★

The Design Doodler has been so much fun! It's really addictive and I'm amazed at how a simple doodle becomes a great unique design.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Have a question? We’re here for you!

If I’m not artistic, how can I use the Design Doodler?

The Design Doodler is easy and fun to use for everyone, regardless of artistic ability. If you don’t feel comfortable “doodling” an image, you can always trace one! Design Doodler allows you to upload images to trace with just a few clicks. Imagine tracing a photograph you took during your last holiday get-together with family. Or maybe you want to trace out a picture your child or grandchild drew. All you have to do is snap a picture of what you want to trace, upload the image to Design Doodler, and you’re ready to start tracing! It really is that simple!

What do I need to use Design Doodler? System Requirements

**Please note only the software, not the hardware (computer or Ipad) comes with the Design Doodler.

You’ll need a computer with a Windows Operating system. You can also use the iPad companion app to design on the go with any iPad generation that supports the Apple Pencil (although the apple pencil is not required to use the ap).

Desktop Recommended PC System Requirements:

     • Genuine Intel Pentium IV, 2.8 GHz PC computer (Or an equivalent PC system)
     • Microsoft® Windows® 10/11 64-bit operating system
     • 4 GB RAM
     • Minimum 1 GB hard disk drive space available
     • Mouse or Touch/Pen support

Ipad Recommended iPad System Requirements:

     • An iPad Generation that supports the Apple Pencil
     • An operating system of iPadOS 17 or later
     • 2 GB Ram
     • 200 MB available Hard Drive Space for installation

You will need internet access to email/share designs you create between the two devices.

Can I use this on a Macbook or iMac?

You can use Design Doodler on any computer that runs Windows. If you have a macbook or iMac, you would need to install and use Windows OS.

Do I have to have an iPad?

No, you don’t have to use an iPad. You can use a computer. Keep in mind, however, that Design Doodler will NOT work on non-iPad tablets.

What if I don’t have an iPad or touchscreen computer?

That’s ok! You can create doodles with your computers mouse/cursor. Some people prefer the natural feeling of a tablet pencil or computer drawing pad, but you can certainly make beautiful designs with a normal mouse.

Can I access my design on my computer if I drew it on my iPad?

Yes! You can save your doodles/designs in the iPad app and access them on your computer. In fact, some people may prefer to open their design on their computer to add some finishing touches before sending it to their embroidery machine.

How do I send a design to my embroidery machine?

It’s easy! On your desktop version of the Design Doodler, you simply select the file format you’d like to export your design into. From there, load it on a USB and insert it into your machine as you would with any other embroidery design.

From the Ipad companion app, you’ll save your working files as .jds files. From there, you can share them via email, Skype, etc. Then you can open the .jds file on the desktop version and edit it or save it to any machine format you wish to load into your machine via USB or wireless connection based on how your machine can import embroidery files.

What kinds of embroidery & quilting machines does Design Doodler work with?

Almost every machine! The Design Doodler will export designs to work on virtually any embroidery machine & quilting imaginable, whether you have a single-needle or multi-needle machine.

As long as your embroidery machine runs one of the following file formats, our designs will work on your machine:

     • PES (Brother / Babylock / Bernina)
     • JEF (Janome)
     • & VP3. & VIP & SHV (Husqvarna / Viking)
     • XXX (Singer)
     • DST (Tajima / Most machine brands as an expanded file format)
     • EXP (Melco / Bravo / Most machine brands as an expanded file format)
     • SEW (Elna/Jamoe/Kenmore)
     • EMD (Elna)
     • PCS (Pfaff)
     • CSD (singer/Poem)

As long as your quilting machine runs on one of the following file formats, our designs will work on your machine:

     • CQP (Compuquilter)
     • DXF (Compatible with most computerized quilting systems)
     • HQF (Handi-Quilter Pro-Stitcher)
     • IQP (Itelliquilter)
     • PAT (Innova Auto Pilot / ABM Innova)
     • PLT ((4QB) –  QBot / QBOT HPGL Plotter Files)
     • SSD (Side Saddle System)
     • TXT (HQ Pro-Stitcher, PC Quilter)

What happens with upgrades/updates?

All updates to the software are absolutely free! These include improvements to the software’s functionality, fixing any reported issues, etc.

Although a while away, given how new this software is, upgrades will be optional and likely be charged only if the newly added features justify it. This is because upgrades will include new tools/features, which of course, take a considerable amount of time and resources for our software engineers to put into place. Rest assured that if there is ever a paid upgrade, it will be worth it ?

Can my child or grandchild use Design Doodler?

Absolutely! Design Doodler is very intuitive. Your child or grandchild can doodle on your iPad or computer and then you can use the design for your next embroidery project. How amazing is that?

What is the difference between this and digitizing?

The Design Doodler is a quick and extremely easy way to doodle, sketch, and trace your way toward creating light, fun embroidery designs. It’s a powerful program that allows you to almost “draw” your designs into existence.

While the Doodler generates high-quality designs thanks to its advanced engine that automatically applies proper stitch settings, digitizing remains the gold standard for the best results—especially for complex designs or professional production work. If you’re interested in digitizing, check out our cutting-edge EL Digitizing Software.

We still love digitizing! And recommend that everyone, at the very least, take our Embroidery Digitizing 101 Course to help improve every aspect of your embroidery life. However, the design doodler is an easy way to turn your imagination into stitches by making simpler designs anytime, anywhere, at any age.

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