May 30th, Blending and Shading! We will start with Blending. Mixing your Colors, then we will look at the intensity of color and how it relates to the density of your thread. Finally, we will take you through the Elvis Presley Stamp and show you how we chose our colors and the how we placed those colors so that we could achieve the perfect blends that would give us the depth of Color that brings this image to life! Truly an Industry innovation that brought America to the forefront!
Archives: Classes
Playlist for the 2023 Videos
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
2023 Webinar, Color Selection, Color Pathing
Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced, Pathing, is an essential part of any Design that will make the difference in how the Design looks, as well as how it runs. Learn to connect the objects in your Design with "hidden stitches". Avoid the pitfalls of constant trims, bird nesting, lost time, thread not picking up, and general frustration! Use your traveling through the design for underlays that not only connect your objects, but tack them down and prevent shifting! This is truly worth your while!
2023 Webinar, April 18th, Pathing, Mapping out Your Design
Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced, Pathing, is an essential part of any Design that will make the difference in how the Design looks, as well as how it runs. Learn to connect the objects in your Design with "hidden stitches". Avoid the pitfalls of constant trims, bird nesting, lost time, thread not picking up, and general frustration! Use your traveling through the design for underlays that not only connect your objects, but tack them down and prevent shifting! This is truly worth your while!
2023 Webinar, April 4th, Small Lettering, Learn to Create Small, Crisp, and Clean Letters
Small Letters, one of our biggest challenges...Get ready for answers that solve your problems! We start with "Quick Fixes" and proceed to the most important permanent fix. Watch as we take a running stitch to give you tiny letters under .15, then do the same with a column stitch. Then see a way to beef up that letter, and keep it clean by using a special underlay! This is truly worth your while!
2023 Webinar, March 21st, Lettering Stock and Custom
Let your lettering tell the story. Stock or custom, learn how to modify your lettering to enhance your design or to identify your product!
2023 Webinar, March 7th, The Fill Stitch and its Role
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
2023 Webinar, February 21st, The Column or Satin Stitch and its Role
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
2023 Webinar, February 7th, The Running Stitch and its Role
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
2023 Schedule, Mapping out our Digitizing Classes for the Year!
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
Webinar – November 29, 2022 – Christmas CleanUp 2
Everyone has that one design that is used once a year for a great customer. However, you battle the design in production. It takes much too long on the machine, has way too many threadbreaks, and because it is only once a year, you don't take time to edit it. We are taking some of our customer's designs and showing you how easy it can be to tweak it to a point that you enjoy it. It may even be your design that we use. Take the time to watch and even ask questions...this 90 minutes may help you with your Christmas Rush and give you time with Family and Friends!
Webinar – November 11 2022 – Christmas CleanUp
Everyone has that one design that is used once a year for a great customer. However, you battle the design in production. It takes much too long on the machine, has way too many threadbreaks, and because it is only once a year, you don't take time to edit it. We are taking some of our customer's designs and showing you how easy it can be to tweak it to a point that you enjoy it. It may even be your design that we use. Take the time to watch and even ask questions...this 90 minutes may help you with your Christmas Rush and give you time with Family and Friends!
Webinar – October 25th, Working with Faces: Human and Animal
We have looked at creating Eyes, Noses, Mouths...Now we are going to look at the face or head and see how to build the face.
We will look at what is behind it all and shade the areas, or highlight them to have a natural area to place the eyes, noses and mouths to have them
appear realistic and complete the face.
Webinar – October 11th – Capturing Glass Continued
Learn to capture the look of Glass in your Design!
We will look at how the glass container distorts its contents. Look at shading, highlights, and everything needed to make the design realistic
Webinar- Sept. 6th – Working with Non-Native files in Wilcom
In response to your questions on Non-Native files in Wilcom!, We will look at how to get the most out of the new EMB version of your non-Wilcom design. A step-by-step answer to getting the processed design as close to the original WITH all the EMB commands in place.
Webinar August 23rd – Small Letters and Narrow Columns
Learn the techniques for creating columns the width of thread - then apply these techniques to creating your small letters!