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Featured Video Playlist Part 2 Quick Steps to Embroidery Success
Featured Video Playlist Part 1 Full Digitizing Class
Full Digitizing Class as Part one of our Features Videos
Balboa Blending
Learn to mis colors, then learn to blend thread colors
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30 years of inovations: Balboa's secrets!
Webinar Class #12 Shading
In this Class we look at Repeating Designs and making them into a custom Motif.
Playlist for the 2025 Videos
30 years of inovations: Balboa's secrets!
Webinar Class #11 Blending for Shading
In this Class we look at Repeating Designs and making them into a custom Motif.
Webinar Class #10, Shapes and Definition through Color
In this Class we look at Repeating Designs and making them into a custom Motif.
Webinar Class #9, Color, the Difference it can make!
In this Class we look at Repeating Designs and making them into a custom Motif.
Webinar Class #8, Motifs and Repeating Designs
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 #8, Motifs and Repeating Designs
In this Class we look at Repeating Designs and making them into a custom Motif.
Webinar Class #7, Narrow Columns and Small Letters
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 #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!