Directory of Free Digitizing Webinars
Those of you who have been participating in my weekly webinars with James Lyman and Leanne Church at embroidery.com have asked for a list of the topics covered since they have to post the sessions by their generic name. Our weekly crowd is growing and I know that others catch the recordings.
Recorded Live!
All of the following sessions are recorded from a live workshop where I’m working right in the Generations software to demonstrate topics and answer questions based on viewer’s submissions. I’ll have to say, it was pretty scary at first because I barely knew Generations myself but writing the course, preparing for the webinar (one week I put in 70 hours of preparation!), and digitizing building blocks got me up to speed and now I feel pretty comfortable in the software. Well, as comfortable as a Mac girl can be in a Windows program!
10,000 Hours
The original concept of the webinars was that viewers could learn the program along with me. If you’ve read the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks about the “10,000 hour rule” meaning that those who have become experts have 10,000 hours of practice under their belts. Well, I certainly have that when it comes to digitizing but Generations is a polar opposite to my “native” digitizing program, Punto, the one I “grew up with” and worked with for 15 years. I had to rethink how to do even the most basic things. You’ll see in the early sessions that I sometimes don’t have a clue what I’m doing! Fortunately, I have James to bail me out.
And while I certainly don’t yet have 10,000 hours with Generations, I’m certain that with the 12-16 hour days I often pull working on the Learn to Digitize Course, that I’m well on my way!
The point is, you may discover some tips watching the videos but you won’t really learn them until you put them into practice and you practice often. Fire up those neurons in your brain often enough and soon it will feel natural.
Since the webinars are not really structured for organized learning, if you need a less helter skelter approach, a better course of action is the Learn to Digitize Training Series. I’m just now finishing the videos for unit 3 so I hope to make my goal of a March 31 release date.
Open to All
You don’t have be a Generations owner or user to attend these sessions. In fact, a number of attendees have written and said they learned things that they never thought to do in their own programs and some people have been so impressed they made the switch from their old software to Generations.
Generations does take dongle trade-ins. There is no rule that states you must learn the digitizing program you have before moving on to something you can use. Why drag yourself down with a clunky program you can’t use? You got it to have fun and be creative. What’s holding you back?
How to See the Recorded Webinars
To watch any of the sessions, you will need to go to GenWebinars and log in (you need to be a member of embroidery.com) or create a free account there. Next, “purchase” a free ticket to one of the sessions, then sit back and watch. Unfortunately you can’t view them on a Mac; you can only view them through Windows Media Player (it’s a Citrix thing).
Schedule of Previous Sessions
| # | Date | Topics |
| 1 | 11/19/2009 | Autodigitizing vs Manual, Bear Redwork |
| 2 | 12/03/2009 | Leah’s Horse (magic wand, fluid contour) |
| 3 | 12/10/2009 | Redwork Candle design (free instruction sheet) |
| 4 | 01/07/2010 | Building Blocks |
| 5 | 01/14/2010 | Free Standing Lace |
| 6 | 01/21/2010 | Motifs-Part 1 |
| 7 | 01/28/2010 | Motifs-Part 2 (stem stitch) |
| 8 | 02/04/2010 | Lettering on a Circle-Part 1 |
| 9 | 02/11/2010 | Stem St, Text on Obj, Fringe (printed instructions) |
| 10 | 02/18/2010 | Corners |
| 11 | 03/04/2010 | St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock & Hat (printed instructions) |
| 12 | 03/11/2010 | Embossing |
| 13 | 03/18/2010 | Puffy Foam-How to use it and how to digitize for it |
| 14 | 03/25/2010 | Creating a design using Building Blocks and manual elements |
| 15 | 04/01/2010 | Egg Decorating Challenge |
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