New Release! Unit 4: Stitch Types and Attributes
The latest installment in the Learn to Digitize Training Series for Generations auto-digitizing software users is now available and shipping!
This unit continues in the tradition of the first unit: a quick start tutorial to get you off the ground immediately, plenty of illustrations, conversational tone, and even more exercises and videos! You’ve learned a lot in previous units and now that you’ve gotten your feet wet and know your way around, we’ll head off to deeper water with stitch types and attributes.
Unit 4: Stitch Types and Attributes
What’s an embroidery design without stitches? Generations™ provides a wide range of stitch types beyond the basic run, fill, and satin.
As you learn more about the entire embroidery process, you’ll discover the truth about why there is no such thing as a “one-size-fits-all” design. In other words, just because you have a machine, a design, fabric and all the necessary supplies—thread, bobbin, needle, backings, toppings, hooping aids, and hoop—doesn’t mean they all work harmoniously together. Instead you need to examine a design’s characteristics to determine how well it will work on a particular fabric and what, if anything, you can do to optimize it for a successful result. In this unit, we’ll be approaching that from the design side by controlling stitches.
Unit 4 Objectives (Partial)
- Know the difference between the different stitch objects and what stitches can be applied to each
- Familiarize yourself with the applicable stitch attributes, what they do, when and how to modify them
- Learn how to control curvy stitches such as spirals, radials, arcs, and fluid contours
- Understand how to create auto-appliqué
- Discover feathering for fun and realism
- How to take advantage of semi-automatic digitizing with the Magic Wand tool
- Understanding pathing (design sequencing) and how to balance for color changes, jumps and trims, and registration
- How to create your own stitch preferences and attach them to a background fabric
What’s Included
This CD-based digital training product includes over 500MB of information:
- 1 Illustrated, full color, e-book—190 total pages
- 11 QuickTime video lessons plus 3 embedded videos
- Images, template file for customizing, background swatches
- Optional evaluation of your project
Unit Requirements & Prerequisites
- Same as unit 1:
- Generations embroidery software version 1.6 to perform the exercses
- Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDF files (free, installed on most computers)
- Apple Quicktime to view the supplementary training videos (free, download from apple.com)
- Successful completion of previous units
- Purchase of Unit 1 if you wish to have your projects personally evaluated
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