Becky J McNeill is one of our closest friends and an expert at PatternMaker software. 

Becky was a cross-stitch enthusiast for many years and when embroidery machines became available she found a way to incorporate cross-stitch into machine embroidery and taught classes in how to do it.  Her classes caught the attention of two guys who were working on making software to bring hand cross-stitch to embroidery machines.  Becky began consulting with them on the development of their software and today that program is called "PatternMaker ME".  The "ME" stands for "Machine Embroidery".   

PatternMaker ME software can be used to create cross-stitch machne embroidery designs that LOOK like they were stitched out by hand.   You can tell the difference if you can check out the stitched out design up close and personal, but for 99.99% of the people who see a design done by PatternMaker ME, they couldn't tell it's not hand made.  A beautiful heirloom used to take months to do by hand can now be made on your embroidery machine in minutes! 

We carry PatternMaker ME  in our store and when you buy it from us you also get ALL of Becky's tutorials, all of their sample designs, a membership to ATW, and access to our Member's Only PatternMaker ME Forum.  Any time you post a question in our PatternMaker ME Forum, Becky J gets an email copy of your question and will answer for you ASAP.  

Below you will find articles and PatternMaker ME software.  If there's something you'd like to know about PatternMaker ME that we haven't written about yet, please feel free to ask in our PatternMaker ME Forum .