Insert a monogram
One to three initials side by side, as the classic trio, filling a circle or a diamond, or set into each other — with fonts, frames and a towel under-layer.
Updated October 20, 2026
Insert ▸ Monogram…, or the monogram button on the left rail below Lettering, sets up a monogram in one dialog. The preview beside it shows the monogram as it will be sewn, and below it the size it will take on the fabric.
Layouts
Type one to three initials and choose how they stand. Each layout is drawn with your own letters:
Single, Pair, Pair with separator — a dot, a bullet, an ampersand, a heart or a diamond between them.
Classic trio — first name · SURNAME · middle name, the middle one larger. Block trio — three letters the same size, in reading order.
Circle and Diamond — the letters are stretched to fill the shape: the outer ones take its sides, the middle one stands its full height. Bold Roman or block capitals read best.
Connected — the letters set into each other and sewn as one outline.
A layout made for another number of initials is greyed, and says how many it needs.
Fonts
The fonts are grouped by style — Script, Vintage, Blackletter, Roman and Modern — and each tile shows your initials in it. Under a font's name is the smallest letter height it sews well at; below that, its weights. Letter height is the height of the capitals, in millimetres; swashes may reach further.
Overlapping letters
Set Spacing below zero and the letters move into each other, from where their shapes first touch. Then choose what happens where they overlap:
Merge — one outline, sewn in one go.
Layer — the letter on top (the middle one or the sides of three, the first or second of two) stays whole, and the others stop a millimetre short of it, so they seem to pass beneath it.
Either way nothing is sewn twice.
Frame, colours and stitching
Frame — none, a circle, a diamond, a shield, an oval, a rounded or notched rectangle, or a scalloped oval; its distance from the letters, a satin or triple-run line, and a second line inside it. Size it by the letters, or by the frame's own height.
Colours — the letters, the separator, the frame and the under-layer each in a thread of their own.
Stitch settings by stroke width gives each letter an underlay and pull compensation that suit its strokes, and fills a letter too wide for satin with a satin edge. Thicken thin strokes widens hairlines so they sew as satin.
Towel under-layer sews a light fill under the whole monogram first, so the letters don't sink into terry or fleece.
If the monogram is larger than the hoop, the dialog says so; Fit to the hoop makes it fit. To change a monogram later, select it and choose Edit monogram… in the bar above, or double-click it: it stays where you put it, and every part keeps its thread and settings.