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ZigZag

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Open-source embroidery editor for Mac and Windows

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ZigZag is a free embroidery editor for Mac and Windows, written in Rust. Draw or import SVG artwork, trace a PNG or JPEG logo, add lettering, choose stitch types (fill, satin, running stitch, appliqué, cross-stitch and more), then export PES, DST, EXP, JEF or VP3 for most home machines. It also sends designs to a Brother Skitch PP1 over Bluetooth, and Claude Code or Codex can draw with you through its MCP server. Very new (version 0.1.2). Apache-2.0.

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  • IlyasHunter Pinned

    Kath Korevec, who works on Codex at OpenAI, bought a Brother Skitch PP1 embroidery machine for about $300 and found its app kept most tools for paying subscribers. So she reverse engineered the machine's Bluetooth protocol and built her own editor, entirely with AI. The result is ZigZag, free and open source, and her Show HN passed 460 points.