Are your small letters closing up? Is your software's "default" setting ruining your clarity?
Is it true that More Stitches are Better?
We pull back the curtain on the Basics of Lettering, looking at the buttons and what they will do, then go beyond the basic buttons and dive into the logic of world-class digitizing. Whether you’re working on a corporate logo or a custom alphabet, it’s time to move from "stock" to exceptional.
Pathing! We will show how pathing is used throughout the design, looking at the how important it is, how it is constructed, which of your three stitches to use, and when to use them instead of an Underlay or trim! You will learn to add to the structure of your design while eliminating trims! Create …
Underlays: In this Fourth Class we will be learning about Underlays, both Manual and Automatic: 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 when doing terrycloth. Learn to use your underlays for volume and …
Join us, for our third live Webinar of the Season, the Fill or Tatami Stitch. Our most versatile stitch! Or return later to review the recording. We have Mastered the Running Stitch, and the Column or Satin Stitch, and in this Class we are progressing to our most Versatile Stitch, the Fill or the Tatami. …
Join us, for our second Class of the Season, the Column Stitch. Our Prettiest stitch, the Column Stitch. or return later to review the recording. We have Mastered the Running Stitch, and in this Class we are progressing to the Column or Satin Stitch, our most beautiful stitch, but the hardest to control. In this …
In this Class we look at Repeating Designs and making them into a custom Motif.
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …