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Brother/Babylock Tutorials

Do you love appliqué? Maybe you love appliqué but stitching the shapes at the sewing machine means that you need to be really accurate with your stitching. As you know this is a time consuming task.

Wouldn’t it be great to have the appliqué shapes stitch on your embroidery machine while you either watched the machine stitch or you did other sewing or another job?

In this latest lesson for creating appliqué objects in PE Design Carolyn takes you through opening an image at the original size in PE Design and then creating accurate appliqué shapes to stitch at your machine. You no longer need to place fabric squares and then trim after the tackdown stitches in the hoop in this lesson. Carolyn will show you an entirely different method.

You’ll have all the shapes cut beforehand and with your digitising skills in PE Design you’ll create embroidery objects to match those shapes exactly. It’s quick and easy.

As well as showing you how to create accurate shapes and embroideries to match Carolyn also demonstrates the Accuquilt Go Cutter in this lesson - but the Go Cutter is not an essential accessory in order to use this lesson as Carolyn explains the same method when using appliqué shapes cut by hand. 

If you do use an Accuquilt cutter and dies then there is no longer any need to purchase pre-digitised designs for your shapes. You can make your own and personalise them whichever way suits the project that you’re working on, thus saving yourself money as well.

Save the shapes when completed and they’ll always be ready for future projects. They can be then edited, added to with shading etc. and made into fantastic new projects.