25 LETTERING FONTS
Enjoy 25 beautifully digitized fonts that include a small 5mm font plus larger fonts for monograms and almost everything in between! Choose from whimsical styles, script letters or traditional block styles to create your personalized designs.
5 MONOGRAMMING FONTS
PLUS Décor and Modern Angles fonts include built-in monogram embellishment options.
27 DECORATIVE FRAMES
Add decorative frames to your lettering or monograms.
EASY TO USE DESIGN AND EDITING
Resize Your Designs
Resize your designs to suit your project in either a 4” x 4” or 5” x 7” hoop size.
Merge Your Design
Merge your own designs from a variety of embroidery design file formats with the built-in lettering & monogram designs.
Center and Flip Your Designs
Flip designs horizontally & vertically; center designs horizontally & vertically.
Align Text
Align text in multiple lines or on a circle path.
Reshape text
Choose from 11 Text Envelopes to reshape the built-in text into concave, convex, pennant and rectangle shapes.
Change Fill Patterns
Customize the built-in lettering, monogramming & frames with 14 fill patterns.
Adjust Designs to Suit Your Fabric
The built-in recipes guide you in adjusting stitch properties to suit your fabric and in selecting the right stabilizer type for your project.
Preview Designs on Backgrounds
Preview your designs on a range of built-in background colors, or import an image of your own fabric to preview.
Select from Popular Thread Charts
Choose from the built-in thread charts for many thread manufacturers, including the Brother Enhanced Thread Chart.
Save in Your Machine’s File Format
With the ability to save your design in a selection of embroidery design file formats*, Initial Stitch is compatible with most brands of home embroidery machines.
* Choose from 11 different embroidery design file formats