There are 3 levels of the Digitizer’s Dream Course to teach you how to use machine embroidery’s 3 primary stitch types. Each level focuses on 1 of the main 3 primary stitch types: the running stitch, the fill stitch, and the satin stitch. EVERY stitch type in existence is a simple variation of 1 of these 3 stitch types. Master these stitch types, and the creative possibilities are endless!

Level One focuses on the running stitch because it’s the most frequently used stitch type in machine embroidery. It includes:

• Four bite-sized video lessons taught directly in the software brand you own. These videos never expire.
• Digitize 12 designs yourself using artwork we supply. Moving from simple to more complex, you’ll digitize 12 designs with help from John so you can better understand and retain the theory taught.
• One Certification Lesson. Digitize a design using the theory you’ve learned and send in your finished design to be evaluated by John personally. You’ll receive an official ‘Running-Stitch Certificate” for completing this certification lesson.

John Deer has been the world’s most awarded embroidery digitizer for over 20 years now. As a 4th generation embroiderer, John has a unique history in the industry as he is the last remaining Schiffli Master Digitizer still alive & teaching. John learned and apprenticed under Swiss Schiffli Master Digitizers over 35 years ago in his grandparent’s factory, before computers entered the digitizing world.

In the 1990’s-2000s John owned & ran one of North America’s largest commercial digitizing houses, where he did the digitizing for many large corporations including Disney, Coca-Cola, GM, the NFL, NBA & more. John has personally won 30 separate digitizing awards in the commercial industry and wrote the book on digitizing called “Digitizing Made Easy” which has sold over 51,300 copies & is used in Universities across the USA to teach those studying textile.