Long time, no see. It’s been a while. I’ve been working on birthday and Easter things, including trying to digitize a fairly complicated design for a birthday pillowcase. It came out okay, but I wasn’t entirely satisfied and I’m not… Read More ›
Digitizing
Order of Operations
No, I’m not going to torture you with more math. In creating an embroidery design, it’s important to think in layers. For example, a person’s face and neck might need to be stitched before his shirt. Fortunately, Generations allows you… Read More ›
Shamrock Earrings
A few posts back, I went through a long discussion with lots of math of how to get the lines in the lace base to align perfectly. For this set of earrings, I followed the procedure and got everything to… Read More ›
Quick Tip #11
In Generations, if you are trying to apply a change to several objects and it doesn’t seem to be working on some or all of them, make sure you didn’t accidentally lock some of them in the Stitch Sequence. This… Read More ›
Dealing with Downloaded Files
I’ve seen several posts on Facebook recently where people have had trouble using downloaded files, not specifically from my site, but in general. Maybe this will help. When you download a file using your computer, you will do so using… Read More ›
Wavy Lines
Did you miss Midnight Constellations 9? I posted it late in the day on Thursday and some of you might not have seen it. If so, just click Midnight Constellations in the sub-menu (right below Home) to get a list… Read More ›
What Next?
Hmm. What to work on next? I have a few more borders for you as well as some shamrock earrings. I need to revisit the lily earrings and clean up the trillium earrings. I saw someone on Facebook mention the… Read More ›
Quick Tip #10
I’ve been digitizing rows of objects in different lengths lately. My procedure has been the following, starting with the shortest line: Create one object. Save the single file. Copy and paste more objects until I get the length I want…. Read More ›
Quick Tip #9
If you combine the satin plain line with the triple run plain line, you get a beaded look. The triple run goes on top for this effect. I used two different colors and enlarged it so you could see it… Read More ›
What is Subway Art?
Several people have asked about the term “Subway Art” so I went looking for a definition. I found this post that describes it. What is Subway Art? Basically, subway art, also known as typography art, is arranging words in a… Read More ›
