Artista Designer Plus Free Standing Lace Tutorial

Free Standing Lace Tutorial

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Artista Designer Plus Free Standing Lace Tutorial
by Lodia Da Silva

Now you can learn how to create good quality Free-Standing Lace. If you digitize Free-standing lace correctly, you should be able to embroider it on wash away stabilizer and have a good quality design when the stabilizer is washed away. If the design is not digitized correctly, the design will fall apart when the stabilizer is washed away.

This tutorial is for the Designer Plus version of the Artista software.

This tutorial covers:

Digitizing locking stitches for the free-standing lower lace wings of the butterfly and Richelieu Bars
How to digitize the final satin borders of wings
How to digitize the upper wings base stitches
How to digitize the details and Richelieu Bars for the upper wings of the butterfly
Digitize the body of the butterfly


Locking stitches for Richelieu Bars	Satin Border	Locking stitches for Satin border


Details & Richelieu Bars for upper wings	Locking stitches for the body of the butterfly

Scalloped edge and locking stitches for details in upper wing

This 23 page tutorial is in pdf format and all designs required to complete the tutorial are included in the download for your use.

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