In this Class we look at lettering, first setting up Keyboard Lettering, then Custom Lettering. This eight Class is Essential, but not part of your WarmUp! You will find that everything that you have learned in the first 6 Classes is part of Creating your letters: Your Running stitch, to path through your letter, or even to form your letters, your column stitch to create your letters or its' Underlay, and even your fill stitch as a letter or an underlay for that letter....AND don't forget your Underlay and your Pathing. ALL essential parts of your lettering. Learn too, to take your Clients' Custom Fonts and create files just for them...AND you will learn to save the custom letters back to an existing Alphabet in order to use them for the next job for this Client
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Webinar Class #6, Lettering, Keyboard and Custom
In this Class we look at lettering, first setting up Keyboard Lettering, then Custom Lettering. This eight Class is Essential, but not part of your WarmUp! You will find that everything that you have learned in the first 6 Classes is part of Creating your letters: Your Running stitch, to path through your letter, or even to form your letters, your column stitch to create your letters or its' Underlay, and even your fill stitch as a letter or an underlay for that letter....AND don't forget your Underlay and your Pathing. ALL essential parts of your lettering. Learn too, to take your Clients' Custom Fonts and create files just for them...AND you will learn to save the custom letters back to an existing Alphabet in order to use them for the next job for this Client
Webinar Class One, It Begins with a Stitch
We begin with the Stitch, then move to the Running Stitch. Learn where to use it and when. Learn how it is constructed. AND learn its' Properties, the things it will do and won't let you do, as well as the Variations, the things you can change. Master this first of the Basics and progress to the Column or Satin Stitch!
Webinar Session #3 10 Minute Fix to Make your Design go from Bad to Good
BLENDING AND SHADING
We will start with Color selection, the difference it can make. A shade of color or a tone can make your Design POP, or... barely noticeable. Ever think that the Design needs more stitches, and then add stitches, only to find that now you have thread breaks, bird-nesting, and all the things that add up to a production nightmare, and the design still does not stand out? It's not the number of Stitches, it's COLOR. Learn what colors will POP. learn which are aggressive and which are not, Learn which colors to choose. Then learn how by mixing the Colors, you can path through your Design while Blending those colors!
We will show you automatic Blends and then the controlled Blends and Shading that Lee Caroselli Barnes brought to the Industry. Once you have created the Colors through Blending it is time to learn where to place your Colors. Learn how light affects that placement. Learn the five Elements of Shading. See how darker Colors cause that part of your image to recede, AND Lighter colors cause parts of your image to come forward. Add dimension and form to your design by using your darks and lights, See where you need details and where it may be left out. Watch your design come to life! This is truly worth your while!
Webinar Session #2 Blending and Shading
BLENDING AND SHADING
We will start with Color selection, the difference it can make. A shade of color or a tone can make your Design POP, or... barely noticeable. Ever think that the Design needs more stitches, and then add stitches, only to find that now you have thread breaks, bird-nesting, and all the things that add up to a production nightmare, and the design still does not stand out? It's not the number of Stitches, it's COLOR. Learn what colors will POP. learn which are aggressive and which are not, Learn which colors to choose. Then learn how by mixing the Colors, you can path through your Design while Blending those colors!
We will show you automatic Blends and then the controlled Blends and Shading that Lee Caroselli Barnes brought to the Industry. Once you have created the Colors through Blending it is time to learn where to place your Colors. Learn how light affects that placement. Learn the five Elements of Shading. See how darker Colors cause that part of your image to recede, AND Lighter colors cause parts of your image to come forward. Add dimension and form to your design by using your darks and lights, See where you need details and where it may be left out. Watch your design come to life! This is truly worth your while!
Webinar Session #1 Learn to Digitize Made Easy
If you have heard it will take 30 years to Learn to Digitize, and if you have tried to follow the conventional directions and failed miserably, you are talking to the wrong people. Digitizing should be easy, rewarding and fun. This class will give you what you need. We will start with the Stitch itself, and what it does. Then move on to the three Basic Stitches, the Running Stitch, the Column or Satin Stitch, and finally the Fill or Tatami Stitch. We will learn Learn where to use them and when.
We will Learn how they are constructed. AND learn their Properties, the things these groups of Stitches will do and won't let you do. You will Learn to Master each of these three stitches, then you will learn to master combining them in a Design.
This Class will be conducted by Lee Caroselli Barnes, a Member of the Embroidery Hall of Fame, who was inducted into the Hall for excellence in Digitizing, and for her willingness to share her techniques.
Webinar Class #5, Pathing
We take the Elvis Presley Stamp apart and show how the Underlay played a part in its creation. We will look at the Underlay, both Manual and Automatic. The structure of the Design, how the Underlay holds it together... Learn which Underlay to use with each stitch type, and where and when to use it, as well as why! Learn how to hide your underlays...and create knockdown bases. Learn to use your underlays for volume and depth, instead of Foam.
Webinar Class #4, Underlays
We take the Elvis Presley Stamp apart and show how the Underlay played a part in its creation. We will look at the Underlay, both Manual and Automatic. The structure of the Design, how the Underlay holds it together... Learn which Underlay to use with each stitch type, and where and when to use it, as well as why! Learn how to hide your underlays...and create knockdown bases. Learn to use your underlays for volume and depth, instead of Foam.
Webinar Class Three, The Fill Stitch
We begin with the Stitch, then move to the Running Stitch. Learn where to use it and when. Learn how it is constructed. AND learn its' Properties, the things it will do and won't let you do, as well as the Variations, the things you can change. Master this first of the Basics and progress to the Column or Satin Stitch!
Webinar Class Two, Our Most Beautiful Stitch
We begin with the Stitch, then move to the Running Stitch. Learn where to use it and when. Learn how it is constructed. AND learn its' Properties, the things it will do and won't let you do, as well as the Variations, the things you can change. Master this first of the Basics and progress to the Column or Satin Stitch!
Webinar, New Year New You, 2025 Class Schedule
Learn the tools in your software that you will need to get the most out of our Classes. Look at the variations in the three groups of stitches, and learn how to set up your designs
Private Class for Kimberly and Bruno
Private Class for Jeannie
2024 Class #20 Review Copy
Review of some of the techniques you have learned. How to sell it to a customer who has no imagination! How to make a picture worth 1000 works. You have the tools! Take that LOGO and make it POP, you know how. Show that customer more than he or she ever expected! You have the tools, tools that will make this customer yours forever. Use them!
2024 Class #20 Review
Review of some of the techniques you have learned. How to sell it to a customer who has no imagination! How to make a picture worth 1000 works. You have the tools! Take that LOGO and make it POP, you know how. Show that customer more than he or she ever expected! You have the tools, tools that will make this customer yours forever. Use them!
2024 Class #19 The Business of Designs
Back to the Business Designs: What can you do with an existing Logo to make it more Beautiful? How to get through to your customer. Give him what he needs, not what he wants!