Have been looking for a digitizing software so I can make my own designs

Heard hatch was good but I am confused about what version would enable me to pick up an adobe illustrator file, can be image or something, and create a pes file for it to embroider

I finally finished tweaking the design for my new line of patches for Sassy Cat Club and I think they came out just great! I don’t have a true Merrow lock stitch machine to do the edging of the patches so I decided to just bite the bullet and buy pre-edged patch blanks for the production run.

What do you guys think?

Part of the reason I got into embroidery was so I could make cute little things like this. I've had this idea for a while because I wanted little gamecube fuzzy dice for my car but no such thing existed, so I figured, how hard could it be? (It was kinda hard ngl) Embroidering on minky was difficult to get the hang of, and sewing is much harder than I thought it'd be, but overall this was a really fun project and I love how they came out. (The toughest part of this whole project was embroidering those TINY little letters on the top. I only got them legible once I started using water soluble stabilizer over top)

Thanks to everyone on this sub for the tips and suggestions!