Classes #22: Our Christmas Cleanup. We all have that Design that we run year after year for a valued customer. One that you say you will edit before using it again. That editing gets put off and you battle through too much density and multiple thread breaks, making the design take way too long to …
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2025 Class #21 Review
Class #21: A Review of 2025, Syarting with the Basics, and their new Techniques, Pprogrssing to Small Letter and Narrow Colums, the Pathing and Underlays, then, Motifs and repeating designs, a thorough Class on Blending and S hading, Then Portraits, Eyes, and Fur and Feathers! Pay $50 for each of the Classes that interest you, …
2025 Webinar Class#20 Eyes
Class #20: Eyes, the window to the soul! Whether it is a Cat, a Dog, a Horse or a Human, the eyes tell the story. Do them right and all else will follow. We will analyze the different kinds of eyes, More importantly, the expressions in those eyes. Color will be important, but simply, nothing …
2025 Webinar Class #19 Fur and Feathers
Class #19: Feathers and Fur. Make use of the things you learned in our WarmUp sessions, your basic stitches and recreate feathers and hair or fur. Both require layers. Learn to analyze those layers and place your detail for realism. HOMEWORK: You will have a Design with both a feather and hair to digitize. Take …
2025 Webinar Class #18 Creating Glass
Class #18 October 14th, 9:30 AM Pacific Time: Glass, Creating stitches that give you glass so real you can pick it up! All done with your basic stitches, and your custom motifs. Learn what to capture and what to trash. HOMEWORK: You will have the same design to digitize that we digitized in Class. Review …
2025 Webinar Class #17 Finishing Touches
2025 Webinar Class #16 Appliques and More
Class #16: Appliques! Not just a substitute for stitches! Learn to use the applique to add beauty to your Design! Learn to use this technique to add function and Effect. Learn to use “Trapunto” as a tool for texture. (appliqueing an embroidered “Trapunto” piece to the background adding running stitches to define the design) HOMEWORK: …
2025 Webinar Class #15 Stitch Saving Techniques
Class #15: Balboa Stitch Designs and other stitch savers.. Back to the “Basics”. This is what started it all! A low stitch design that costs pennies to run and looks like a million. We will take what could be a complicated design apart and make it simple, from 100,000 stitches to 10,000, using Basic stitches …
2025 Webinar Class #14 Working with Non-Native Files
Class #14: Working with non-native Designs. We will address the fixes needed for each of the stitch types, the Fill, the Column Stitch, and the Running stitch. Look at the angle of the fill, was it changed when the formats were changed?, Look at the Satin Stitch, should it be a Fill? Then the Running …
2025 Webinar Class #13 Design Set Up
2020 Playlist of Classes
2020 PLAYLIST Join us for the 2020 Webinars: To view your 2020 Videos, Please use your PLAYLIST You should see the first Video on the PLAYLIST on your screen. If you would like to Watch this Video, click on the Arrow and Enjoy. Beside the Video, you will see what appears to be a blue …
2018 Playlist for Video Classes
2018 PLAYLIST Join us for the 2018 Webinars: To view your 2018 Videos, Please use your PLAYLIST You should see the first Video on the PLAYLIST on your screen. If you would like to Watch this Video, click on the Arrow and Enjoy. Beside the Video, you will see what appears to be a blue …
2019 Playlist of Classes
2019 PLAYLIST Join us for the 2019 Webinars: To view your 2019 Videos, Please use your PLAYLIST You should see the first Video on the PLAYLIST on your screen. If you would like to Watch this Video, click on the Arrow and Enjoy. Beside the Video, you will see what appears to be a blue …
2021 Playlist of Classes
2021 PLAYLIST Join us for the 2021 Webinars: To view your 2021Videos, Please use your PLAYLIST You should see the first Video on the PLAYLIST on your screen. If you would like to Watch this Video, click on the Arrow and Enjoy. Beside the Video, you will see what appears to be a blue background …
2022 Playlist of Classes
2022 PLAYLIST Join us for the 2022 Webinars: To view your 2022 Videos, Please use your PLAYLIST You should see the first Video on the PLAYLIST on your screen. If you would like to Watch this Video, click on the Arrow and Enjoy. Beside the Video, you will see what appears to be a blue …