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Preferred Drawing Tablet for Embroidery Design? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by NewPerspective@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works
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My wife has had a Baby Lock embroidery machine for a few years now. She also has the Floriani software that'll let you convert regular images into embroidery patterns the machine can work with. Now she wants a drawing tablet for creating and modifying designs.

She uses her machine for everything from clothing to 3D interlocking decorations. I can hear her machine going right now in the other room making shadow boxes for Christmas.

What drawing tablet would you recommend?

She has a dual boot Windows/Mac MacBook so I'm not too worried about compatibility. She doesn't have a particular model in mind and says she's open to ideas because she hasn't looked yet and doesn't know what to expect. The only requirement might be that it uses a stylus. She asked for something basic: "color fills/lines and easy editing." It's for Christmas so I can't ask her too many obvious questions, that's why I'm here hoping you'd have similar needs/wants.

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[-] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tablets without display work really well for simple stuff. Evern for more involved things like painting but you have to adjust to the hand-eye mismatch.

If she plans to do more stuff with it (painting, drawing, image/video editing) I would go for a display one.

I've used wacom and huion. Both are ok.

this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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