You’ll love this cute new Puppy Tote project from Stitch Delight. The set has 13 embroidery designs for the 4×4″ hoop and fantastic directions for creating this lined applique project. Leather has been used for the applique fabric in the example shown, but you can use a fabric of your choice. Follow along with Daleen’s excellent instructions and you’ll complete this adorable novelty tote in no time.

Hi - This is more of a question than a suggestion.  Do any of you have a list of the design packs that are available from Anita Goodesign , I have them from other designers but I cannot seem to get one from Anita’s site. Thanks so much. - Dori

Hello,

I just wanted to give a hint of something that we did in the industrial embroidery market. To remove solvy of any sort and hoop rings we sprayed with Magic Sizing and it worked great. Also will not mold.  Also on things like velour we would use the tissue type paper than came with shirts and place over fabric then hoop and it helped fabric from having a crushed look.   I hope these are helpful.

Debbie

I have the MC10001 and recently purchased the digipro mb4 software program. The included manual isn’t very helpful to someone who has never digitized before. How do you start the process?

Thanks,  Karen

Hello Carolyn, I just bought (3) tutorials that you did - PE Design v6 & PE Design v7, and manual punch. They are very good, I just need more explanation on pitch and frequency, settings, when and how to use them. Would you have more in detail on this? Next, running path, this isn’t real clear for me. Is there a way to make a line stitch go gradual from small to large in width, other than manual punch? I have been away from this for a few years and seem to have forgotten all I ever knew, which makes it hard. I have kept up with the software even if I never used it, which is a mistake, it would have helped to at least try it.I would appreciate any help or suggestions you have. Thanks - JoAnne

Hi JoAnne

Step Pitch is actually just the length of your running stitches. You can set them to a longer or shorter length depending on what you require.  For instance if you wanted to make basting stitch files then you would lengthen the stitches so that they are easier to pull undone later. Or perhaps you wanted shorter stitches in something like triple bean stitch or even areas that are tiny and the normal length of stitches is too long. You then have the option to shorten the stitches. Does that make sense?

Frequency relates to the positioning of the needle in fill. A regular or default fill is created a little like laying bricks. The stitch points in every other row are placed mid way between the stitches in the previous row. This gives you that regular fill appearance. However, you can choose to create a different look fill by changing the frequency setting. Placing each stitch directly under the previous row will give you a lined type of fill as each stitch point is placed directly under each other in every row and will look like stripes or channels. By adjusting the frequency you can make the fill a more jagged look as well. Play with some of the settings and then stitch out little squares of each sample and then mark each one with the setting you used  so that you can refer to them when creating your designs.

No - you cannot gradually change the width of the line of satin stitching unless you’re using the Manual Punch Tool. The only program that I own that can do this is Embird Studio. This is possible using a Tablet combined with their Freehand Tool. The width can be changed gradually just by increasing the pressure on the Tablet itself. It’s very clever but sadly this function isn’t available in PE Design.

Kind regards
Carolyn Keber
Step by Step Tutorials for all Embird programs and for PE Design

Learn how to make beautiful 3D Flower Brooches with free directions by Evy Hawkins from A Bit of Stitch. Evy covers materials you will need, helpful hints and suggested tools, along with her detailed directions. She also has a free Flower Brooch design to download and try.

Make a complete Spring Quilt with free instructions from Shelly Smola of My Fair Lady. These fantastic directions include step by step color photos to help you through the quilt assembly process. Shelly uses her fresh looking Spring Quilt in the Hoop designs in this project.

4-1-09 - This tutorial is no longer available for sale.

Carolyn Keber has written a new tutorial on Editing Designs in Embird Editor and will donate her total proceeds from the sales of this lesson to the Australian Bush Fire Appeal. Ace Points Embroidery have provided a beautiful design, free of charge, that will be included with the lesson too. Also, be in the draw to win one of 5 Embird Alphabets donated by the Embird Company. By purchasing this lesson you will be helping contribute towards getting the folk affected by these devastating fires back on their feet again. Important Note:  This lesson is only available for purchase until the end of March 2009 and will not be sold after this date.  Make sure you don’t miss out, buy one today!

Dear Mrs Keber,I’m from the USA and I bought Embird last year after stumbling on to your portion of Secretsof.com. I believed what I read at your site and it agreed with what I could glean from reading John Deer and his advice that seemed to be, get a powerful basic punching program to develop the best skills to become a reliable embroidery designer, don’t choose a fancy automatic program. The Embird Suite really is this powerful program it goes beyond my imagination as I found out after I purchased it and it has the automatic features also.It has a steep learning curve because of its potential to be able to do almost anything. I’m a retired motor truck designer from NAVISTAR (International Harvester) and on the job I fell in love with computer designing. I’m 70 now and I have fallen in love with computer design all over again. I just want to thank you for your excellent tutorials. My wife has a Bernina embroidery machine and she can hardly wait for me to create any new design for her because with your tutorial instructions, understanding the adjustments that create easy to run designs are effortless.

When I started using the Embird Studio Tutorial lessons I was impatient and thought that “Oh no this looks so basic and I want to learn so much more” but how foolish I was. Your technique is to use the basics to establish a floor to work from and then revisit that work and learn editing and modification skills that I didn’t even realize I was going to need. I have redone (modified) “that umbrella” over and over changing scale, design features, density, thread directions and styles so I can reflect the light just right. I even added rain drops bouncing off it. I’ll have my wife stitch these variations out and we compare them to see how fabrics and any other variable affects the design.

You see, our son is in seminary, and we want to be able to provide liturgical vestments for him or altar garments, or whatever might be needed. Because of past professional standards, and the lighting conditions during the use of what we want to make for him or others our product will be under critical public scrutiny. What you teach us will be put to the test.

Your teaching process is fantastic, Thank you. Thank you for your efforts to train old dogs in new tricks. - Dennis

First, I have to say thank you for all the help getting Embird updated and working. I just purchased the digitizing program and Carolyn’s  Studio V5 Tutorial and I am so impressed. My problem, after doing several of the designs, is that I can not get the parameters to come up. I only get the top part that lets me pick straight line or curve and there is nothing else there. I think Carolyn calls it the short screen. I am able however to get the larger parameter screen. I don’t know what I did wrong and hoping someone can enlighten me. I am very new to this so hope I am not asking a dumb question. The color chart is there and then when I click on the fill tool, the parameter screen comes up but I can’t set pull,density or any of those things.Thanks so much for any help. -Diane StaggsHi Diane

You can only get the full parameters screen once you have created an object. So - first create your object with the Fill Tool (or whatever tool you wish to use) and then Finish the object (tap the Space Bar, Enter key or click the Tick). Then once the object is showing on the Design Page move to the Object Order screen on the right side and select and then right mouse click on that object in the Object Order screen. Choose Parameters. The full Parameters screen will appear.

Now you have a lot more settings available including the option of selecting the Parameters button at the top of this screen which allows you the choice of even more settings and options.

The first Parameters screen which appears when selecting a tool is really just for “quick settings” as the Parameters can be changed at any time during the creation of a design – as long as you select the object in the Object order screen. You can even work through all the Parameters in your design if you select all the objects (CTRL+A) and then go to Parameters. You’ll notice a number of TABS at the top of the Parameters screen – one for each tool that you’ve used. -Cool, eh?

Best of luck with Studio.

Kind regards
Carolyn Keber
Step by Step Tutorials for all Embird programs and for PE Design