How to Analyze an Embroidery Design
And chances are that since you’ve purchased your machine, brought it home, and starting embroidering your own projects, you’ve had some less than successful results– or maybe even downright disasters. What happened?
Did you blame it on the machine? On the design? On your technique? Do you even know what to blame it on?
Embroidery lasts the lifetime of the item you sew it on– and if the result is bad, that lifetime may have just terminated abruptly. With embroidery and fabric, it really is a “til death do us part” marriage. So just because you have a design, some thread, a machine, and some fabric doesn’t mean they are good marriage partners.
Just What Do You Look For?
Here are some of the things you need to look for:
How big is the design? How many stitches are in the design? How dense or open is the design? What types of stitches predominate? Are there a lot of varying stitch directions in the design? Does the design have running stitch outlines? Does the design have a lot of layering? Does the design have excessively small details? Is there proper underlay to support the design? Is there proper compensation to offset the distortions of sewing? Will the design overpower the fabric? Will the fabric overpower the design? What kind of stabilizer will you need to support this design on your chosen fabric?Well, I could go on and on but I think you get the idea. Would you like to embroider smarter? Would you like to get inside the head of a professional digitizer and see what they’re thinking about when they create designs?
If so, you’ve come to the right place!
Why This BookWhen I owned Cactus Punch, the bulk of our business was digitizing creative, production-friendly embroidery designs targeted for the home embroiderer and niche professional embroiderers. Today, there are “billions and billions” of designs but many of them are not sew-worthy. Embroiderers aren’t taught how designs are constructed. The manual that came with your embroidery software does not teach this. You’ll only learn this from an experienced, professional digitizer who has trained other professional digitizers.
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This 144 page book, full of colorful illustrations, covers how to stabilize, hoop and stitch decorative designs. You will also learn how to do cutwork, appliqué, dimensional embroidery, lacework, texturizing fleece and many other techniques with machine embroidery. There are also 20 easy step-by-step projects, comprehensive resource directory and techniques for creative embroidery. The author is Jeanine Twigg. It also includes a CD that has 6 designs by Cactus Punch Designs. I’m asking $10. - Dallas Listings Ya sea leve o grave, puede causar acné adolescentes una gran cantidad de vergüenza acerca de su apariencia. “El acné no es fácil vivir con la condición”, dijo la Dra. Jeanine Downie, un dermatólogo y co-autor de “Bella Piel de Color”. “Para empeorar las cosas, la gente gasta millones de dólares en más [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. - 李俊 Here’s Jeanine Pirro, the former Westchester district attorney who ran for attorney general in 2006 after abandoning a planned Senate race against Hillary Clinton. She was filming a promo for her television show right outside City Hall this morning. “Weekday afternoons. So New York! So Fox Five!” was her line. After [...] - The Black Book
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Imagine...If Wishes Wore Wings: When an idea is more than an idea…
Embroidery collection has made it way to embroidery machine owners around the country…(sounds like a quick and easy process –not! And I must send out many, many thanks to some pretty amazing and creative people who took time out of their busy worlds to hear my ideas, brainstorm with me and believe in the powerful concept behind this embroidery machine collection). After hundreds of hours of doodling, sketching, coloring, photos, instructions carefully constructed, sample projects stitched and packages re-designed, this new Cactus Punch collection is now officially available! Yahoo! The best feeling in the world is to have this tugging idea in your head you just have to get out on paper or in fabric because it is so incredibly important that you figure out some way to share it. Ideas are always a great way of expression but when your idea is able to be sent out to the world in hopes of making a difference in women’s lives, it becomes an overwhelmingly proud moment. Proud of everyone involved, everyone who encouraged it to happen, everyone who stuck their neck out to bring an unconventional and new embroidery concept to life…and most proud of what others will do with it to make a difference. Sounds a little on the heavy side but when you’re a creative person (which I know most of you reading this are in your own way) you just love ideas, right? Isn’t an awesome moment when a plan comes together from one single idea? Here’s my idea for you…use this collection to learn new things on your embroidery machine (ie: our new technique KreativeKollage, appliqué, ARtQuilting, layering, beading.) Use this collection to make your next quilt borders and stippling or your first ARtQuilt . Use this collection to share an ARtAngel with someone celebrating life or healing from the loss of one. Use this collection with my hand-dyed fabrics included on the CD that you can print on your computer printer or pick fabrics dear...