Digitizing from True Type Fonts in StitchArtist

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warm amelia is picking up her Multi needle tomorrow boo-boo excellent excellent so exciting so exciting you know I just I lost my chance I've but I just look at the timer and I'm five minutes in and a five minute mark means I could say hey Lisa checking in and we're doing our Facebook live today on the umbrella and software and today we're gonna be talking about fonts now the fonts were talking about a few weeks ago I did the video on alpha tricks and alpha tricks lets you map keyboard font so that you can type with them with your keyboard key BX fonts are usually stitch based so they're it's a completely we're doing today today we're not that's not that's Alba tricks that's taking something that's already been digitized so today we're gonna talk about bringing in TrueType fonts into stitch artists and doing something fun yes and what I mean fun there's there's digit there's all sorts of ways you can they can be digitized so in 45 minutes we're not going to cover all of them but we'll cover a few different fun things that are easy and all these can be done in so that I'm going to talk about today in stitch artists level 1 which means they can be done in all levels so I'm going to switch on over to the software and we'll see what what happens here and Leon I'm hoping that lamb roast is ready we're gonna see if we can get over to Melbourne because Lee my friend Leon she makes the most fabulous lamb roast I've ever had and it wouldn't be the same with trip without lamb roast so gotta get my schedule all organized ok so I'm gonna switch on over to the software and get my mouse where's my mouse I lose my mouse there we go here we are see I got a little circle here learned something new and this is the software so we're at the arm brilliance program and I have three different styles of fonts or three different styles of digitizing that we're done in two type fonts so let's let's talk about that a little bit so I'm in create mode right now okay so you can see I mean I'm in level 3 I have welcome which is done in a cross-stitch style the word 2 which is a sketch style and number three which is applique and it's done with a zigzag font on it a zigzag style on it so the first one I want to talk about is the cross stitch so let me first of all my switch back over into stitch art is level 1 just so that you can there's less buttons to be confused with and for those of you that are having video streaming issues hopefully that will solve that problem so the cross stitch fill that is this last crosshatch type button here at the top that's your stitch type now to bring in a true type font that is with our TT button and it says when you put your mouse cursor on anything buttons it says add true type font an image whatever it is that you want to do it so I'm gonna click on a new design page just that we have our empty screen here and I'm gonna click on this titi TrueType font button this brings up a dialog box and it depends if you're running Windows it may look a little bit different than the Mac version but this lists all the TrueType fonts that are on your computer okay so this is like you go from 2d font you know the website dafont.com and they have to type fonts there you can download and install those and they'll all be listed here now when you have that in them on the Mac you can make this window a little bit larger windows has its same adjustment type thing it just has a little bit different shape of your dialog box but it this shows you the name of the font in the style of font and down here says your text so if I select this by your text here because that's where I'm going to type it in and I type in the word that I want so if I type in welcome welc oh and eat that is basically gonna that shows you what the font itself looks like in that TrueType font there's no stitches it's just the characters that show up when you type in capital w small lcome okay so this is what it would look like in your Microsoft Word program or your any sort of graphics program or text document or something like that so I type in my text that I want to show up on my screen and I click OK now the first thing you should notice is that they come in with just outlines and that is because a true type font isn't even though it's thin and skinny its drawn so that it could be flood filled with ink so every time you bring in a true type font it's even if you saw when it looked like hand pen handwriting so really skinny it's always gonna come in like this because on the computer when you're using it in a word processing program it shows up it has to be flood filled with ink and it's if you wanted to say do this as a simple running stitch you just can't if I click on run stitch right now assigned all this to run stitch and it would basically outline all the letters those are my objects and it assigns a run stitch to all those letters the only way that you could get a single run so basically an outline of these is to manually go through with your draw with points tool and basically reshape retype redraw this whole thing just like in the video on the Umbreon stitch artist playlist on how to digitize handwriting same type of thing you'd use this as a guide and you would just click to draw your individual lines that's because a true type font even though it looks like it's skinny it's not it has to be flood-fill to think it's just really skinny to see so do you want to create an outline of an FA font simple and bring it in click on outline and you're good to go I'm gonna go back to artwork just so that we don't have stitches remember that if you want to resize this they're all selected that's a whole design and each individual one these letters is an object and this e is an object of the outer shape of the e with a hole in it okay so if you look at your screen here see there's an e in that hole so that's the hole shape the L the see all the letters are individual objects so if you want to say resize this entire shape you have to select them all and you can drag a corner or as I like to resize Center out I hold down my shift key and I can resize these and place them where I want into my hoop if I want to say move them closer together or arch them or do something else with these I hit their basic they are objects they are designs or going to be designed so I would have to move them each individually to get them to do as I so if I wanted them arched I would probably want to bring in a circle and rotate them and etc I want to at least leave them the way that they are but just to let you know if you wanted to say make the W just larger on its own select just the W make him taller make him smaller however it is oh I got the hawk is like zooming around right outside my window and that's kind of low sorry I digress we get nature coming in on the show so these are like I said these are just objects these are shapes these are if you had drawn them by hand this is how your TrueType fonts come in so if I wanted to make these all to be cross stitch and have them all be the same the I select the entire design which is made up of all those objects and I'm gonna discuss click on my little button it says cross stitch and select them and they all become cross stitch now in the cross stitch dialog box this is where you set how many crosses stitches per inch 10 is the kind of cross stitch you do when you are there kind of large if you've ever seen a chart that's 10 X's per inch it's not huge but most cross stitchers are doing 14 8 or 18 count by hand the expert cross stitchers are doing something higher like 22 or 28 however our embroidery machines can't stitch crosses that small even if you use hundredweight thread and a 60 weight needle doing twenty two or twenty eight crosses per inch that is wicked tiny tiny tiny and you're really perforating the fabric so I don't recommend changing that cross size but that's the cross sizes number of stitches per inch and you can go up to eighteen is probably the highest that I would do and again I would probably use either sixty wait-wait thread if you wanted to get a fine definition actually see the crosses if you use forty weight thread it will be more blessed pixelated that you'll see crosses if you look at it closely but you won't have any space they'd be rather tight they'd be almost like blocks of of what do you call it blocks of color run right next to each other so the highest number I would use closest number to make the smallest X's R is 18 normally and that's that's a mighty small one does it matter if you choose say a number like 17 or 16 just to make it look better on the screen no any number works just know that any true cross stitcher knows there's no such thing as 17 stitches per inch there's no ADA cloth that is set up that way or linen they're all even numbers so if you're trying to get a look of true cross stitch go with an even number like 14 or 18 or 10 those are the standard cross street sizes if you don't care and most of us just start going for the style you can use any number you want now if you notice if you chose just a smaller number or a lot say smaller number because the X's are bigger so let's go down to 10 yep 10 sometimes the letters are not even as much so likes if you notice actually these are all o the M see how this this one is skinny this one's fat and this one's skinny on the side if you want to make them all two rows you have to actually go into the individual letter and reshape it because this is simple math here so in this guy you'd actually want to carefully move this over so that you'll get the two rows going down in two rows going across and move them manually which means your actual shape so if you let's see that's what I mean actual shape I'm trying to go back to artwork this may not look like the original artwork but when you assign the stitches to it it looks more like what you're expecting it to look like if can make sense the stitches are what's important to the shape of the object does it make a difference because in machine embroidery you want it to look right at the embroidery machine hopefully that's kind of kind of making sense guys so hopefully this went through this information on the dialog box haven't seen any questions come up on the cross-stitch area I will let you know that the count this is the number of threads they're going back and forth so number of passes so if you're looking for a thicker cross stitch and you have a like ten point ten count or fourteen count you might want to do a double cross so that's like when you're using multiple strands of thread through your needle to get a thicker look otherwise if you're doing 18 count as a double or single as what you're gonna want ten fourteen you could probably get away with this double or triple ten definitely a triple you can get away with that now give a nice heavy look almost like you're using a thicker because you're making three passes over each X so okay Kim says she's picking it up so far excellent like I said the hardest part with doing cross stitch is reshaping the letters to make them look even because when you're you want them to rose - rose you don't want one one one dunk dorky things sticking out here okay so there's no more questions on the cross stitch and hopefully that's not gonna bother anyone I didn't finish the end because we're gonna go back and look at do the next one so I'm gonna go back to my true type font here and the two which is just the word two I'm just gonna pick a different font here so you can see how we can really morph these so where it says your text here let's see Fauntleroy that's a nice pretty a lot of people like to play with this font this hat is great for Sketch fauntleroy or fog lighter you see how it has those slightly swirly things on it for cross stitch this would unless you're doing something really large you're gonna you want to kind of go as simple as possible when you're doing stitch but for doing see a sketch let's do and change your text here just to the word - let's let's do well yeah we'll just leave it that way gonna click it okay here this gives us our font that's gonna be here because we're gonna do this one is sketch style now just because you bring it in a certain shape doesn't mean you need to keep it that way because if you know a sketch kind of needs to be a little bit larger and I wanted it to be a little bit more pronounced I was trying to make it look a little more stylized so reshaping the objects unless you're looking for something to match like in a logo exactly you can reshape them these objects that he's just any size shape you want I mean we wanted these T's a little bit the T to be a little bit wider we'll just grab both of these little nodes here drag them down whoops I didn't grab them both missed one TD grab them both drag it down and I can make that just a little bit fatter that's an ear and I would want to have an obviously do that to both sides d30 they make it lo larger so why this is important so you're working on a logo and the Arial font or Helvetica works perfectly well but it's not wide enough or it's not it's too skinny too fat not tall enough or just been morphed a little bit as opposed to redrawing the entire font or file entire letter itself you can bring in something to start with and then customize it and change it up because you're the artist here you can do whatever it is that you want now sketch designs there I'm let me first of all let me change welcome to a different color just because then I know that it was done click on my little color chip and we'll make it green oops not brown green oh Kim didn't know that you grabbed two nodes yes it's not easy to grab two notes once you have your notes highlighted make sure you zoom in so you want to see nodes and you select more than one usual SL select more than one and now you can move just those two now that also works okay glad you made that comment Kim because if you say you wanted this whole little guy here this this thing this end this whole thing from this point forward and you wanted to move this part over first of all you highlight your let's start from beginning highlight it so you see all the nodes your mouse in stitch artist well you have nodes pointing and those are those little dots your mouse is a lasso so left click and hold and drag your mouse around the nodes you want to select release your mouse button and you'll see the owl turn different color they'll turn blue now when you put your mouse cursor on any one of them and you drag it your dragging all of those so if you wanted this to be further out you can do that mingotts Lee you want to delete some of these nodes select multiples of them whoopsie hit the Delete key reshape you know so that's easier to whoopsie I didn't I'm gonna mean to grab the node I meant to grab the handle oh let's just leave that guy he's being painting about anything do you move him down sing to the computer it behaves so much better when you do that but see how you can you can reshape things really easily by selecting the objects so that you see the nodes using your lasso to left click and hold and drag to grab multiple nodes they all change color to a dark blue so that when you move things you're moving all those three at one time now if you just wanted to move that one bar up looking at it see how this one selected I'd want to click off of it click on it and reselect just these top two because if you have more node selected weird things happen okay so oh good glad you guys picked up a little tip here Michelle's minds blown yay we love giving lace tips and tricks and teaching you one more thing even to the experienced users on how do you do something in the software and that was on basically editing stuff and has nothing to do really well it does have things to do with to type fonts but it's just something that extra you're gonna use in something else that you're doing in the software so let's change this to to a sketch Phil so I'm on both letters to be the same but a class I select the whole design clicked on the picture the word to tio and I'm gonna go up to my little fill stitch here that fills it in with a stitch automatically now to do sketch you click on your fill stitch tab and I want them all to have the same exact setting so to have them all done at the same time just click on fill and that's going to change them both the properties at the same time my density you have a density default is 4 that's fabulous for Phil if that's what you're looking for as far as the fill stitch goes the slider that's to the right of it here that only goes up to 15 okay that's the maximum that it will go if you want a higher number which means a higher the number the further the rows of stitches are apart so 15 points is 1.5 millimeters it's not that far apart okay think of one millimeter that's it's far apart it's gonna not be filled but you wanna if you're looking for a real white space in between there you might want 20 22 26 depending on the size of what it is that you want to do so if you want to go beyond 15 type in the number you want like 22 and hit the enter key on your keyboard and that changes the density to you okay so the slider only goes to 15 but you can type in any number you want so once I have my density set to 22 which is a higher number I can that's the stitches that are going this way and we see the stitches going this way those are the underlay stitches and in a sketch design unless you're going for that style of crosshatch which haha you never know what do you what if you are looking for crosshatch and you wanted to actually kind of look like plaid and have the background fabric that's not that's actually not bad and if you choose cap travel edge bum you kind of have that it looks like a pattern going to the background and then you'd want to move your starts and stops which I'll show you in a second but because we are let me uncheck this because I want to explain that in a second because we want to do a sketch I just want it to be a sketchy fill I'm gonna go to the underlay and I'm going to click on turning everything off so that we have no underlay top or bottom Kim says you didn't realize that you can gonna go higher on the fill and absolutely you can type in any number you want just make sure you understand that though the distance between the rows of stitches is that's the the number so you don't really want to do four because that means it's gonna do one row of stitches and jump a four millimeter jump cuz it's not gonna stitch down for milling they're just gonna jump four millimeters and then stitch back across so doing anything above 30 30 is you and do test so and then you know if it works or not that's the best way to do something so sandy says can you you not use the motif fill do the same thing or is there a difference well motifs okay if you choose a motif fill and you leave at the default that's just ugly stitches that's you want to use the fill stitch you can use a motif itself but not you know there's no if you if use do the test so and it works for the sizes you've done in the shape that you've done that's fabulous but I'm just showing you how you do a sketch with regular fill stitches here so set your distance turn off your underlay and you can sort of see I'm gonna go back to my fill so they this is the underlay button where I turn it off and this is the fill properties this option here says travel edge this just can you see this there's there my edge of my object that is drawn and you see how the stitch one row is inset from the next row that is so you don't get a bump on the edges and you don't perforate things because it would give a lot of distortion if you had every single needle point at point four millimeters hitting that edge you would it would if you were stitching on something with no stabilizer underneath it and say using a sharp needle you'd pretty much perforate it and it would fall right through and you'd end up with a mess so the when you're doing a regular fill stitch you don't want it to travel to the edge but when you're doing a sketch by choosing travel edge that means every row stitch is automatically going to go to the edge and anything that travels is also gonna go to the other edge now when I say travels do you see that line Center in the middle let me click on just the letter T that happens and if you are in the stitch artist digitizing fans group you watch the Snowman videos that's because our little some start and stop is set here to the bottom it's gonna start at the bottom and it's gonna stop at the bottom well the only way to fill this shape is by with this as the start and stop is by having it travel somehow it can't just start start here and do a nice clean fill to get to the top and then come all the way back to the bottom without repeating itself somehow so if you move your start and stops to different locations like I'll put the start at the at well let's see don't link it to stop at the bottom here boom move that one here and move the stop to the top right there you can get rid of some of those travels but you're gonna always have you have to have some of them simply because it has to get from point A to point B if I probably me if I move this all the way to the bottom here and maybe move this one over to the side there's some ways that you can move it but complex shapes that look like this there's no way of of not having sort of a run but you can minimize it and if you choose travel edge it makes it nice and even now one thing you'll notice here is can you see there's all align our tea has a diagonal on the side of it that's because this is a little the row of stitching based upon the density that we chose in order to get from this line of stitching to the next line of stitching it can't it's not gonna start in the middle it's not gonna do that so it has to it has to either go on this side or go on the other side and connect in like this so your options for fixing this are either to change your density to a different number or you can sometimes change your stitch length to different numbers and that will adjust things or you can move your nodes so that they're in different locations and that will also adjust where those are coming in a lot of times of what you can do here where it says 22 maybe type in 22.3 and it can maybe adjust them or maybe go down at 21 and you'll see that things are adjusting and you play with that make so you make you make the objects the art the design look the way you want it to look like I think if I changed this one to maybe 20 with it uh play around with your numbers until you get what it is that you're going for okay now you can also in this sketch we have a set to zero to fill top to bottom if you change your angle the stitches that will create a different look effect see how fun that looks almost looks like a barber pole type type style so one thing to keep in mind while you are are working on this settings is we now want to make sure that this one kind of does the same thing so I have this one set to 20 this one needs to get set to 20 because I did do them separately I need to set this to travel edge I'm gonna set one of these whoopsie grab the wrong thing command Z undo grab my bowtie move one to one side move this guy to the other side so that it feels nice and neat my mouse is a little jumpy and you get our two our two letters now Kim says the O reminds her of an olive it kind of look like a green olive need a little pimento in the center that'd be kind of cute with sketch designs you're normally when you're going with a solid straight fill for this so you're not going for a watercolor look where you're doing blending and feathering and things like that a nice way to finish these off is to put a running stitch outline around them and then you'll basically have your run on both sides because this is not what you normally see with a sketch you don't have that open area so one of the things that you can do is select your letter we're gonna go up here to where it says copy I'm gonna right click on this and say paste over it so that it puts the copy right after it and I'm gonna change this to be a running stitch and set it to be a double run or a bean stitch or whatever it is that I want and now it has a nice finished finished look and it's gonna stitch out that T at one time so when you're let's see and it's gonna finish it starts and finishes and then whoops this run I'd want to make sure that the start of this run is at the bottom so that there's no jumpy thing and that just seems a problem Laurie says I make this looks and sounds so easy but you're so confused sorry I type fast and I've already gone through I talk fast I try not to make it confused but the beauty of a live video on facebook is that it's saved and you can watch it again and hit the rewind button and pause and rewind and come back and see what it is that you want to see it seriously as soon as you start playing in the software and pushing buttons that's when things start to click watching someone do a live video or any of the videos even the ones that are on the YouTube channel watching them start to finish and thinking that you're gonna pick up every single bit of information and just go to your software and and wish was implanted sorry that doesn't happen I was hoping for that today but I like I said I took a class this morning and I had to rewatch a few of the videos a 4 or 5 times because I missed points I didn't understand what he was talking about I'd watched again so it happens to everybody if you're not until you're comfortable with what you're doing it's okay to watch you rewind no one knows no one realize Susan says copy and paste on top is a great technique this is very new yes it's a one those time-saving features that's in the program so I'm gonna show that one more time because we're gonna do with the Oh so I'm gonna select the oh I'm gonna go to copy and I'm gonna right-click on it and I'm going to say paste over and that pastes a copy right on top of where this one is it's not that big of a deal for when it's last one when you're doing the copy paste over but like say you wanted to go back up to that cross stitch and you wanted to add outlines to those four wheel why not because you can you'd want to do to each individual letter and copy paste over copy paste over and change them all to outlines okay mask so the paste under would just move the T before the thing you copied absolutely so let me do that economy hit this is Lee here so I'm going to select this o and I'm going to right click on it because it's still copy to my clipboard and then I say paste under it actually puts it right in the in them in the top here so I and then it paste over takes the object and pastes it so it's on top pasted under means it moves it forward and paste replace means say you um uh okay where's my Owen here there's my ELF um say I wanted to replace this Oh with the other oh here all I have to do is right-click on this one and say paste replace and it replaces it right with the other one so that's really really handy if you're fixing something that exists a few times like say in a wreath or letters I mean say if you had something that way like st. Stanislaus and you had to fix these s well now you have st. Stanislaus new only Thorpe and us to a copy/paste replace a few times that's super cool of course that now that doesn't match our our design but that's okay I showed you a new something new that maybe some of you didn't know now this one that's just before don't forget this guy here do I have my oh yes I need to select this one and change this one to a running stitch and we'll just make it into a bean stitch just so that it's nice and easy and we have our fill with our nice little bean stitch now here's another trick you see my tea has an angle going across it and our o is still going up straight across I want it to be the exact same as the tea okay because I want them all to be I found one I really like that angle and I really want this one to be that same angle okay so I got to click on the tea to make sure I have the fill selected because running stitches don't have angles okay I put my mouse cursor on the yellow angle changer and I left click and hold and I just move it a little a little bit okay so I can see it on the bottom taskbar I can't let go of my mouse because if I let go it's gonna disappear the angle I think no it keeps being a hole sorry how do you realize who's gonna do that see oh but as I move my mouse it hides it okay but I'm looking right here see at the bottom of the screen or might where my hoop size is if I put my mouse cursor on my angle and I move it a little bit you see the angle that shows up so I have it set right now 221 degrees yet twenty-one that means if I select this fill here and I move this angle up I can wait till it says 21 degrees III go slow not too fast one more full now they're both exactly the same okay so I have two angles are exactly the same zero if I wanted to go the exact opposite in the other direction ought to do is subtract 180 from minus 21 degrees that b1 59 I think possibly no 169 yeah 169 and that would give me the angle going in out the direction so that you can have them opposites of each other so that's kind of cool changing the angles sketch feels now in level one your sketch ville here you have you can just do one single distance so I have it set to 20 the whole thing is 2 millimeters apart from the whole thing in level 2 when you have so this is my level 2 and level 3 of course you have an option here a new button that no I have to click off of it and click on it again boom you have two new buttons here you have you can curve it so if you wanted to do these to be curved gradients but you also have the option of doing the gradients for increasing decreasing open ends open middle what this means is say we want to be bottom-heavy that means I can set it to be increasing and set it to be yes it means it's heavy on the top lighter on the bottom and vice versa so those the gradients are all in level 2 and higher but in level 1 you can do sketch fills with a single distance from each other so Mary was saying she was playing with the angles this weekend and wondering how to get them to be the same so I can show you another neat tip there and Wow Michelle another new thing it's know I'm blowing Michelle's mind dear and Susan says more than two new techniques yes I Michelle says like shading absolutely these sketch fills are fabulous for doing a shading on top of an object and doing a gradient sketch fill that's how you can make something look make up one big solid color and then layer another color underneath and have the bottom top show through that's all copy pasted under pasted over layering your things huh lots of new things that can happen here ok so do I even need to show you applique just kidding I figure I'll get a riot standing if I only showed part of it look at our lovely design alright so gonna go back to let me go back to level one here like level three level one back to our to type font now this one when you're wanting to do applique skinny swirly fonts unless you have a hoop and you're gonna make something really big uh skinny Fon snow that's the you first of all even if you're cutting with this with a silhouette or a brother scan and cut you don't want to cut real skinny fabric it's get distorted it just no not it that might have a good idea who says yes applique so when you're looking for applique fonts or fonts that you want to do something in applique you want to find something that is a chunky I think Gil is one of them nope that isn't one of them but oh gigabyte this is the one I found em but kind of a fun funky applique type type font just and when you look at the preview it's chunky it's fat it's got some meat to it these are great the fat ones are also good for motif fills so when you're doing decorative stitches like dots and squiggles and crosses and we'll flowers and hearts and stuff you want a chunky font so this one I happened to find it was kind of funky looking and I'm gonna type in what does I have it set here maybe fonts was just the word I typed in Fon tes all capitals so I think that's all it shows up in the font click OK and I need to move it down one thing about moving things while you're in stitch artists when you put your hand my sir on the green down the center do you see how your cursor turns into a hand that means you can move whatever's under the hand if you happen to move your mouse cursor off of the center dot you can't move the entire shape okay that's just a tip so moving in stitch artists whatever selected you have to have the hand and that lets you move it around okay so applique that obviously needs to be larger so I click on my shift key and I drag it big because nobody wants to make small tiny applique pawns if you do well that's not I'm just gonna move this other side to win it's not underneath the two okay sometime what I wanted to make this big enough so that it was obvious oops well 45 minutes I've been yapping away okay sometimes your true type fonts come in and when you enlarge them or the spacing of them they start to overlap like this T in this s so you sometimes you may need to move them over to sides and when I saw this font I was like you know this is really an odd odd funky font it was nice and chunky but it just it didn't work for me as far as the sizing goes I didn't want some letter smaller than the other letters so you do I didn't feel like I needed to resize them this is also when you're moving things around like this and you're you're looking at them and trying to figure out your plan because every embroidery digitizing project needs to have a plan I was thinking wow I want this to be applique and I want the essence of this font I don't want it to be overlapping each other I want it to be separate of each other I really don't want to trim those little do-hickey guys but I kind of like the shape this is when selecting it and selecting your nodes and hitting the Delete key to reshape these makes things a little easier because sometimes like this T I mean really all those little nodes in there you know it doesn't need to have that that little curve is not necessary but that was just how the font was drawn so as a it works for flood-fill it just doesn't work when you're doing my I didn't need that tiny curve so you can reshape these we've already kind of gone to that before now applique now that I have my font set up the way or my letter set up the way I want to I'm just gonna change these all to be applique I can go to my applique tab and one thing that you kind of want to play with here do you have your border stitches that you can choose if you're doing you have different choices that you can choose from the e stitch the blanket stitch the satin stitch which is our typical machine embroidery if you wanted to do a zig zag zig zags are nice when you're trying to do something fast and it's also because it kind of like a vintage look that's also sort of liking it liking that on it because it's they call it's in some when you doing like the Greek letters and there are large Greek letters and you'll notice that this there's just a lot of times when you purchase a sorority shirt or a fraternity shirt the Greek letters are put on or baseball shirts anything with a tackle twill that is the type of style it's as open zigzag it's not a full satin so the stitch is really nice it's usually done in the same color thread as the fabric that you're stitching it with a couple of the tricks I wanted to show you with your fonts is that you can first of all make sure you know that you can choose your fabric preview that shows you what the little fabric pieces are going to look like so that you can actually see background Katrina asked is reconstructing the outline the same as removing extra notes yes it is however it doesn't always work on true type fonts simply because the way that they're Auto digitized try it but yes I'm level 3 under the create menu under outlines there's AB option says reconstruct outlines sometimes that can simplify and get rid of some of those extra notes but when you're looking to say reshaped something to make a smoother edge it's easier to select and delete but find the tool that works best for you hopefully that works Kim says like on the old leather jackets yes on letterman jackets sports jackets youth is satin that's on the back of them it's not really a satin we momentum that satin stitch on applique woman winning the home embroidery machines came out because it does a finishing edge no one did that by hand with any sewing machine it was more more this way and the big jackets they got a stitch faster that's just the and usually when you're doing multiples like fraternities baseball letterman jackets you're not just doing one and top for your grandchild it's you're doing a set of twelve or fifteen or however many that the team needs booster club so time is money getting that time in there so showing the fabric applique behind his is done with the fabric preview if you are using a cutting machine whoops I've got my stitches here a cutting machine like a silhouette our brothers scan and cut our Cricut you need to have a position stitch but you don't necessarily need to have the material stitch material stitch is what holds downs at the second running stitch if you're trimming by hand you need the first one to hold the fabric in place or to show you where the fabric goes the second run which is the material will and you would want to check this that's tax it down in place so you can remove your hoop and manually trim all your fabric but if you are doing pre cuts like with a cutting machine you don't have to have that turned on you can do it whatever it is now the color of the fabric see how I have this shown here this is set by the color of your applique position so if you click on this color chip and choose a different color let's go up here and choose hope ink why not you see how your fabric changes the background here so that's you can actually see what the preview is so when you have a letter selected it will have X and however many colors that it needs this is the position stitch and this is our finishing stitch so if you want the finishing stitches to be just showing in that if I call you can click on that but the color of your fabric is set by the position stitch so if you wanted to say change every other one to a different color click on this click on your color chip I'm going to go now let's click on my little color chip here and I can change my colors that way and go for that and changing that ah so there you have it this these are just some of the fun things that you can do with your to type fonts and I you was using stitch artist level one everything that's done here except for the gradients that I had shown and of course when I talked about the reconstructing outline of level 3 everything I showed could be done in stitch artist level 1 and it's this is this is a lot easier a lot more fun a lot more creative than trying to do second which is what we traditionally get with satin fonts it's traditionally what we get when we get the X fonts we have their second columns and they are the normal stuff so what I showed you is how to do things that are not so normal like cross stitch or you can put a motif fill or sketch fills create from from any of your fonts very simple easy to do easy way to customize them create some new fun designs hopefully let's see free to ask can i oh you want know what the pre-cut button does so on the applicant when you have when you check the pre-cut button that means it's like say you have a Sizzix you know the hand cutter or you are you've purchased laser-cut shapes so you sent them out of a specific size and you want your digitizing to match that specific size that's where the pre-cut comes in so this is like from a die cutter say you purchased a studio die for an AK you quit and you digitize that shape and you don't want to accidentally reshape it because it needs to match that pre-cut size so when you choose the pre-cut option that means you can't change the size it's it locks it to be that size which it's nice because then it fits that die that cut file that pre-cut shape that's all pre-cut does on the applique button does Michelle says she thinks to you the scan and cut she's gonna ask Santa for one absolutely santa needs to bring you a new toy people ask what's if you scan and cut a silhouette saves you a lot of time I find it does I have both I liked my skin and cut dye they both work pretty much the same but I like my scan and cut for fussy cutting because it has a scanner built-in and you put my fabric on my mat scan it in move my shape and cut exactly on it so for fussy cutting fabulous and I have one of the old old ones so I don't have Bluetooth or any of those fancy fancy features but mine cuts cork and felt and all sorts of stuff and it works perfectly fine the silhouette is silhouette it cuts the same way except it works like a printer so you have to open the software at least I had the older one so I open software and I bring in my cut files and I cut it out on fabric Nancy asked what stitch artists is this I was doing this in stretch artist one so you can do it in any of the levels of stitch artists except for the extra things that I mentioned such as gradients or reconstruct outline I mentioned what those features were in but all the basic stuff I did wasn't stitch artist level 100 Joe's gonna show her sister what she learned tonight what a fabulous idea share the knowledge I mean first of all she's gonna love you for it okay that just gonna be you're gonna be her hero but second of all it's gonna reinforce it in your head so that you're gonna be showing her and even though you may have to watch the video again and show her again and you're gonna remember it perfect but that's awesome awesome awesome oh sandy says she oh that was great she learned something watching these excellent so glad you found it informative Jesse you have to save application a separate file for the scanning cut you just save it on the just like in quick tip video number five note number six saving your cut file save as FCM write to machine so hopefully Joe asks how do I treat my fabric before I cut well I have a complete blog post that talks about it anything that goes into a cutter the cutters were designed for non moveable fabrics now moveable items like paper can't stretch paper can't stretch my and well he can stretch vinyl but think of paper okay you can't stretch it it's got so whatever you put under that blade should be as paper like as possible that's probably the best advice I can give so starch the bejeebies out of it I always use a fusible backing on mine simply because I don't put a tack down I don't put a plan yeah tack down stitch I only do a placement so I know exactly where the cut piece goes and I press into place I use a product by thermo web called heat and bond stretch if you go to my my website and let me type this in on the comment I forgot to open this in here but let's see www so - bubbles com there you go slash FB live ok the link that I just put in the comments here that has links to the Amazon products that I use it also of course if anyone wants to get the stitch artist software or any of the other stitch are in brilliance programs my affiliate link is there information scissors I use all of my information I talked about in the various blog posts or Facebook lives I put on this so if you are looking for that I use heat and bond stretch and it was designed so that you can actually fuse it to us knit fabric that you can cut out as your applique and take that applique and fuse it to a knit fabric and follow the instructions when you stretch that knit the knit applique stretches with it love the product because then when you put it because it's fused and that applique the fusible stuff actually stretches all of my applications don't pop they just stay fused to my t-shirt so I love the product and so if you forget you want more information that is on that Facebook live page so I'm done I survived and I got to use some of the shortcuts I learned in my class today I hope all of you learned some of the shortcuts to learn in this class today or this little Facebook live I didn't get this I was talking so much I didn't get to sip my beer tonight but I will go and enjoy it my family is out watched movie so I hope you guys have a great evening and I will see you next week just to let you know before I forget I will see I know a couple of you I'm going to see and Echo Summit I think its new is that next week oh my goodness we're coming into October I can't believe I talked over Decco summits coming up and then after that I am in Australia I've got the two day event in Brisbane and I'm on vacation with my hubby we're gonna have a grand ol time and one of my most favorite countries to visit I know there's only a few spots left in the Brisbane so if anyone's in Australia you're hoping to get in make sure you check in with Gary Walker and the folks at the kid in the sewing products so that they can get you booked in and after that I will hopefully have my schedule set set for next year on look at Houston Nashville and Atlanta on the first three that I have scheduled along with the everything embroidery market and applique getaway because those two are already set in so yes Michelle you need to read my blog more lots of posts that are on there my website does have a search for the blog so if you go to the website on the desktop that's right the side that's over here what's at the right hand side it says search blog you can type in stuff like applique or enthusiasts or dent repair kit whatever it is it searches the whole blog for all that information alright guys I've talked I've run over my hour so I look forward to seeing you next week and yes you can re-watch this as they're always recorded and every Monday you can scroll back and watch all the previous ones take care guys bye you

Channel: Lisa Shaw

Views: 17,162

Keywords: Machine Embroidery, mac embroidery software, machine embroidery software, embroidery designs, Embrilliance, Lisa SewBubbles, Bubbles Menagerie, StitchArtist, TTF, how to digitize, BriTon Leap, Creator, fonts, sketch embroidery, cross-stitch embroidery, cross stitch

Id: Lb_FDI3Jn7k

Length: 60min 5sec (3605 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 17 2019