HQ Live - December 2018: Combining Designs in Pro-Stitcher with Susan Manry

and you have the way you present things and and sometimes people struggle with one way or another and so you may do things a little different and somebody's gonna go I finally got it oh sure we're gonna start with edge to edge because that is the one thing that people use the most constantly constantly so I'm gonna just kind of say go for it and first of all before I hand it over to you Susan is actually using a mouse we have it plugged in she's using a mouse so that you can see her arrow where she's pointing to the buttons and we'll talk through you know we'll name that button so you you follow and shield if she goes too fast I'll say sorry yeah so we're gonna have a mouse with this and let's do it okay we ready to set our area let's do so what what's your first plan here well we're gonna set up an edge to edge for our little quilt top here we're going to set an area and then we're going to repeat designs to fit into that space so before we loaded this quilt top what was the first thing that you did well we measured it from side to side and from top to bottom right because otherwise I can't get them at once it's on the frame and rolled around the bars we can't measure it very Kentucky so you have those two measurements right width and height you can find your width but the height we need to correct already Mindy okay so then what well then we're gonna drive the Machine the kneel to the upper left-hand corner of the quilt okay and we're gonna set an area point there so we've already activated the area tab on the screen but let me show you where it is here's the area tab okay so all those buttons across the top or tab these are all the tabs now anytime that we're working in Pro stitch or premium we're going to work across the tabs first choose a tab and then from that selection the next choice will be made from the ribbon which is the area directly below so each tab has a ribbon of tools that's correct okay and so in the area tab we have some options we're going to go straight to the two corner area we're going to set our first corner in the upper left-hand corner of the quilt just off the edge of the quilt top okay and we're going to set a two corner area point there refresh this so that we can see so there's our first point and that represents the upper left-hand corner of our quilt top we're gonna drive the machine to the upper right hand corner of our quilt top and we're going to set a second area point there whoops I'm using the wrong buttons for our two corner didn't work out so well there we go sorry I did sorry I thought we were upside down there so this represents the entire width of our quilt but it doesn't have any consideration for the whole you went straight across could I have moved my machine down you could have you could move your machine down and set the second two corner point and then I would have to tie in put the measurement for the hulk' so we're gonna have to one way or the other okay there way when we do the two corner area when we set the first corner wherever we go diagonally away from the first corner we're gonna get either a perfect square or a perfect rectangle right angle corners exactly yes so then we're going to input the height of the quilt and the height of this quilt was 45 45 inches so we're gonna set 45 so your width is 38.7 and that's giving you about an inch off of both sides correct and then on your 45 was that the exact height or did you add an inch oh I've added a little bit of extra space just for mishaps who knows I imagine I get little insurance there I do that too nice all right so now what I see is you have the area of your whole quilt that's right why do you do the air why do you do your whole quilt why wouldn't you do one row the reason I do it this way we used to do it one row or two rows and repeated them but with the tools that proce teacher premium has now in the ability to move the designs around on the screen you can choose exactly where you want your patterns to be by doing just row after row after row you really don't have nearly as much ability to create the design that you want and then that you can see what your density is actually oh in the aperture that's really nice okay okay so now what so we're gonna pick a pattern you're going to go to the file tab vile design and then open and we're going to navigate through these beautiful folders and I'm going to use a design from the HQ designs and a continuous line and we're going to choose a continuous line pattern because we want to be able to do the repeats that will stitch all the way across the throat space in one continuous stitch oh so continuous line has your start and your endpoint on the same plane line so that they will be exactly and we have our little green start start start icon on the left side and a red stop icon on the right side so you can see that this pattern is clearly a continuous line guide so quick and easy this is probably the easiest kind of pattern areas to do in your pro stitcher so as a new pro stitcher user this is exactly what I recommend is to choose a pattern like this that fits neatly into that little square now the next thing we're going to do is go to the repeat tab and from the repeat tab we're in the basic options this will be the first time that we've gone so based on the ribbon this mam basic from the ribbon and then we're going to move over here to the right-hand side of the screen and this is the side bar so this is where all of our third choices are made from so from the ribbon to the side-by-side everything has correct function over there okay so we have the basic options we have horizontal and vertical options where we could input our own number of repeats but I like to go straight down here to this fit button because once that button is pressed Pro stitcher multiplies that design as many times as it can without changing the size of the hydrogen off and without exceeding the space of the area okay alright that's pretty darn close pretty close to the sides but I'm seeing we have space in the top and the bottom so now we have some options here we can add a row and move or crop away what's on the outside of the area we could stretch our design okay so let's that's so it's the vertical so we need to go to the vertical option first of all let's stretch it and see if you like it let's do that and see what it does to the proportion of our design okay it looks stretchy to you it does but you know what it's doable by if we stretched it too much it will it fit in our throat space possibly how are we going to decide well we can actually move our machine there's where it starts at the top we can come all the way down and this pattern would fit yep it may not if we stretch it too much in one of the exact same our throat spaces but but I think I'd like to add a repeat okay so let's do that we don't have to unstrap to do is add another repeat and see what that does to us well that makes it more more better it's it seems a little better proportion it does I think sometimes when you stretch a design instead of squeezing in an extra repeat the design starts looking a little diluted yeah a little stressed but this looks a little more dense and I think that's okay and this is a really dense pattern so to measure this if I place my crosshair at the top of that looking where it is on my fabric mhm and move that down so that's the size of a clover gotcha if that's too small I guess you didn't take out a repeat right you can you take out a repeat and hope that you still had room to stitch that Baker row I like it oh I do too okay I often use the measuring tool to figure out what the distance is between the stitching lines oh that's a good idea or of course we have our actual size over here let's do the actual size let's see what that looks like it's a pretty pretty tight areas less than a half of yeah but not bad he says not I I could live with that I like that it's pretty cute pattern yes it is real good I think the density is that it or did we do we never stretched it horizontally and you can see that there's just a little bit of empty space on both sides yes I said let's do that let's go to the horizontal options in the side bar and stretch the horizontal and that does make it fight a little bit better so if we were gonna go ahead and stitch this the next thing we would want to do is baseline the pattern and what does that do baseline is one of those interesting tools baseline basically freezes the design in its current condition right now procedure is thinking about four repeats horizontally and five repeats vertically so 20 different designs but when we baseline this pattern Pro stitcher gives it a new name calls it repeat clover edge-to-edge okay and now thinks about it as one piece so it makes pro stitcher a little bit so you still have your rows we do it it takes each repeat across and combines that's right it gives Pro stitcher a little bit less to think about well that's good yeah that's good are we ready to go are we going to stitch this one I think we should try and one that's got a little bit more okay okay with more issues if we weren't going to stitch this one is this it I would just press my start and go pretty pretty close to that I'd be ready to see I mean I'm ready to stitch right now what if what if I had to leave in the middle of this well I would save it dassault I think the two most important things baseline and say right now if you were gonna save Jes how would you save this what would you say cuz I know there's some options okay yeah I I usually save the selected design the area is the tool that I use to set up my pattern and I consider it a design tool okay but once my designing is done I don't usually use that same area again okay so for me I would go to the file tab and save the selected design okay but that's not what you do is it I that's right I just not what I do I always save what I do is I go to the workspace and I saved my whole workspace which what is in my workspace an area and the design the design set and the reason is is that I sometimes will use that area to make sure that it's lined up or dungeon to bring so I always save the two but you don't have to you have options yes okay so you're saying there's another design that has oh yeah this was easy and there's nothing wrong with easy this is stitch though what do I do okay if we're ready to stitch we go to the pro stitcher tab and quilt is the default option there we make sure that our ties are set the way we want them to and I almost always set a start and an end time so to set like if I have four tie offs or whatever then you go into the settings right we'd go to the Settings tab okay and then here we could choose our number of stitches per inch and the different tie off options that are available to us and the pull up and pull them Auto options that are also available and then all we'd have to do is say run and our darling machine would say I know what to do it would drive itself right over here to the start I know so many of our quilters got to find the start spawning I don't move it over here I got to get it right where it needs to go but we don't do we know we don't ever have to drive them so my press decide it's going to move itself over and if it doesn't move there then we've done something then we made a mistake but we know that that's it okay I'm just gonna stop there yeah yeah and we're gonna come back because there's another design our other designs actually lots of them that have other issues that we need to work right a lot more complicated or more challenging designs that are gonna use more of the cool tools opposed to cool cool that's exactly so we're gonna keep the same area that we've got now since it does really represent our call but I'm gonna close this design this close the selected design now if I closed the workspace the area would have closed too and had you done that and you didn't want to what would you do I do my favorite you notice that undo is at the very top of the toolbar here do you think it's because it gets a lot of use sure and this time we're gonna go to a file design open and we're going to navigate oh it wasn't hard to the Baptist band pattern okay now this Baptist fan is a whole lot different than the one we just worked with isn't it it is so if you were to put a box around that the bounding box I can see there's a lot of blank space in that where your Baptists over didn't have there is so that creates issues as we do things if you zoom in a little bit and I'm doing this with the scroll wheel on my mouse just to make it a little easy list okay over just a hair you can see that that blue box is then we call it the bounds and it represents the total height and the total width of the design so the outermost part of it all exactly the design that we were working with a minute ago the start point was right up here in the very corner of the blue box and the end point was right up here in the very corner of the blue box so when we repeated that design everything just snapped together perfectly without having to but this one the start and end point or the start point isn't anywhere near the edge of the box and it's inside they're still on the same plane line though exactly but we're gonna get a completely different result when we do fit on this one okay okay so repeat we're in the basic repeat options and there's a refresh and we're going to hit fit again and watch what happens it's not exactly what we did this is what I expected but it certainly isn't what some people might have been right because now we got that space so those that end and start they didn't snap together exactly and they're not designed to snap together there are times when we don't necessarily want these repeats to be put together I do on this yeah I do on this too so we're going to use a tool that's going to do that for us we're gonna close the gap and this is the gap between the horizontal repeats and we have a one button press solution for that right here it's point to point or P to P that's it and when we do that boom they did snap right together okay now by doing that I see I have extra space so we do so what let's add a couple of repeats shall we let's add a couple of horizontal repeat okay I think we're close enough to the edges here that I wouldn't take away a repeat okay okay but we still also have to worry about that gap in between you notice that when we did point to point if you're talking about the vertical gaze now mm-hmm okay we not quite sure how many repeats we're gonna need from top to bottom until we resolve it out to the gap okay so can i zoom in on that I all means I'm gonna press the zoom and I'm just gonna draw a box around this a little bit that's pretty cool that's one of the one of my favorite new tools I should say new it's not that new so you can see right up close the space right with yours but with your arrow that space right there right here that gap we got to close up that's right you can see the gap here that was designed at this this gap was intended when this pattern was digitized when we stitched this pattern with a ruler or when we stitch it free motion or free hand quilting or hand you see there they touch the little rainbows come in and touch when we start quilting with the long arm computerized long arm we don't really have that much control over the drawing of the quilt as we stitch along so that gap has been left there because it's great for the eye to see that gap it's okay if that gap is there okay but what we don't want to see is overlapping we don't want to take a chance that one of those little rainbows will come and cross over the beautiful arc from the previous that's what that gap is therefore that's nice so now we want to create a similar gap between our horizontal case okay so we have to mimic the gap a glass a little gap so we're going to go from the horizontal to the vertical tools over here in the side bar and then there's no point to point here and the reason is there are no start and end points to connect to each other exactly so we're going to manually close the gap here by just pressing on the minus button here at the space of each one closer together and you can see it closed - so it's going into the negative area okay cutting back into that space getting pretty close there and if I want to get really picky I could turn on my measuring tool and measure the distance here and then input that number over here I like what you instead of mind I think that looks perfect yeah I think it does too so let's refresh now and look at our look at our whole quilt again we've lost some ground don't worry we have the right density now but we still have some empty spots so we need to now add some vertical row sure so let's add a row oh that was perfect if I add in one row mm-hmm pretty good okay that looks good so do we now do a stretch because I can see they're too big what do you think is gonna happen if I stretch this pattern well I think it's gonna stretch or move or shrink actually on the vertical it's gonna stretch it and on the horizontal it's gonna shrink exactly so it's going to go to the sidewalls of the area right but it's not going to change the fact that our pattern doesn't touch the edge of the area all the way around okay so we've stretched and we're on the side but there's some we've got some things to take care of still but that's what makes this such a great pattern really good now we need to fill in those side whacks so we have another tool for that okay I know so we've used repeat basic so far now the wrap options are available to us I didn't mention this before but when we first used the repeat tool that wrap option really didn't even show up it was all right out right now because we hadn't met the criteria in order to use the wrap tools you have to have a repeated design okay so now we can change to the wrap tools and when we do we have new options over here in the sidebar and the first one is the window and really this window relates to the blue box or the pink area exactly everything inside of it and what I want to do is take one of those repeats just one baptist fan and what what proce teacher is going to do for me is it's going to take half of that and put it on one side of my box and half of it and put it on the other so it'll fill in those blanks it Watts so that's what we're gonna do by wrapping the window by half proce teacher magically I know it's awesome isn't it but I love doing that I just love how people so let's say I want more of that first hand I want it bigger so so these arrow buttons here move or scroll the pattern across the screen one way or the other and you have options you have a lot of jumps though yeah we do have a lot of jumps what are we gonna do about those should we close close the edges oh there's a button down so down here is the option to close the edges if we zoom in let's use your little zoom tool real quick and look at what we've got because I'm not sure the everybody knows what we're talking about I'm also going to go to the View tab and turn off the view of the blue box in the area so they're still there and they're still doing their work they're just not being so those are jumps they are which would be not fun to be quilting cuz it's exactly at the beginning of this row you notice the little dotted line here this is the traveling jump line from the previous row and so really what that indicates is the direction in the distance that Pro stitch or the machine would travel without stitching to start down here at the blue or blue green start point the next row right and so the pro stitcher would stitch and it would follow and when it reached the red jump point it would tie off and then travel this distance without stitch exactly so that's what Vicky was talking about is what about these edges and do we really want to wait while the Machine ties off and travels hundreds of those over the course of blows I'm saying no okay so now we're going back to the repeat tab and we're still in the wrap options and down here at the bottom of the sidebar is the option to close the edges and when we activate that feature all of those jumps disappear and now Pro stitcher would come to that jump and just continue stitching it packs a stitch it does it creates a stitch path in place of those jumps which is fine because we're gonna be stitching right off the edge of our quilt top anyway we're not going to have to worry about those stitching over or something important on the right side that there's still some jumps we do and we might be able to get rid of some of those by scrolling the window around a little bit and I'm pretty sure that we just did do we still there it is okay cool so there we go yes so we're good from side to side okay let's turn our area yeah back on our view of the area because I can see that we have little gaps at the top and the bottom and we don't want to do that same thing then with our vertical that's right so back to the repeat tab and we're going to change to the vertical options and we're going to go wrap the window now gay if we wrap the window by half it's gonna split a row and put it at the top nice thing that you can select Lee I probably would rather have a fuller one at the top meet you and you can be as particular as you want so you can really do you know I think about this like a player piano roll right it just continues over all these that we had when we were children and you could that's the way I think about this and I can get it as particular as I'd like I mean it I those are like fingers at the top I'm not higher well remember some of those fingers are gonna be eaten up in your binding allowance I still want okay let's keep going so keep going I want to get rid of those fingers so it might crop off a little bit of the top of that next row but I think I'd rather do that okay keep going I'm going keep going go right right there right there okay I'm happy with that good for you are you happy with that I'm perfectly happy okay if we're good then what do we need to do before we save our design we're gonna baseline yes what are we gonna baseline and all those repeats turn into one continuous line pattern now I see there's some jumps at the bottom but when we get to the bottom I would think I know usually because we added extra we added I do am some crop we probably crop that away yeah sod it won't matter shouldn't make a darn bit of difference Wow so I think it's time to stitch this you and ha okay the next thing that we want to do is we want to address a couple of issues that come up while we're stitching while we're stitching we want to talk about if my thread breaks or I run out of bobbin thread and so our thread probably won't break but we'll take scissors and make a break I know I know what you're I know what you're planning and the other thing is is that when I have to advance how do I advance to make this happen gotcha if I have to and these are things to look forward to today if I have to shut down today we've said we'll save this if I have to shut down today and come back tomorrow because I needed to go to lunch with my friends with us in our red shirts today if I have to do something like that then I need to know how to get myself started again reposition so these are things were going to address today and this you don't have to leave your machine on overnight I do okay so we want to stitch let's do it but we baseline but what didn't we do we haven't saved our design okay so do you want to go ahead and do that sure so this is a file function we're saving a file so file tab and then save the selected design or the workspace if you'd rather and then we're going to navigate to the place on our computer our windows computer here or if you're using a USB Drive you can navigate to the USB Drive and see you can find that in your life absolutely like I what I do is I create a folder in my HQ designs I always know where to go in HQ designs I will create a new folder so let's do that today okay let's create a new folder okay so we're in the HQ designs here already you can tell here by reading across the screen this tells you where you are in the file tree right now I don't want to be in continuous designs I want to be in the HQ designs so that's what so you noticed where continuous went away okay and then I'm going to save this so we need to create a folder create a new folder here and we're going to name it Susan okay I'm even going to capitalize it so there's my on-screen keyboard and create a folder so now you can see that my folder now will and it's open because that's correct and now and as you can see it created the folder here in the file hierarchy I always create a folder for each quilt because then I know if I have to leave and come back in two weeks and I would wear those designs are that I've been using so we're going to save that and when I go just to look just to make sure it's there file design open navigate to the same folder there sue there's my folder and there's my quilt good job okay alright so we can close that yep I think it's time to stitch I'm with you okay so let's go ahead and stitch row one okay and then we'll address some things okay okay you're on so Pro stitch your tab we've already checked to make sure all of our settings are the way we want them to be we're going to choose run and the pro stitcher gives us our verify settings window to remind us to raise our needle out of the quilt and this is a another opportunity for you to make sure that you've set your settings the way you want to have done like you didn't leave your basting stitch on or something tell me you haven't done that many times and then we're going to press proceed and the machine's going to drive itself to that green start point that we expected it to do and I'm holding on to the top thread that's really important hmmm why is that important because if I let loose of that top thread it's going to get tangled down underneath my gums to pull it down it does it's always there and then I'm going to hang on to both of these threads snugly I'm not going to pull on them I just put my finger down to hold them against the throat of the machine while the tie stitches are being taken and that prevents any extra thread or nesting from happening underneath on the backside of the quilt okay we have this at about a medium speed it just works fine if you wanted to reset that you'd press pause and then just speed it up yep this looks good so we're going to go ahead and let this stitch and then we'll come back and we'll talk about well maybe [Music] maybe uh Oh get my scissors Oh we're gonna do this now I think we should are you sure I think you don't want to do it after we drag and drop no I think we should do what do you think it's up to you okay so first of all I wanted to show you something we're gonna go ahead and pause this we're on the Forte the Forte has the ability to read and feel that my thread has broken right if you have it turned on yeah and this one wasn't turned on right I know it just kept going so the important thing about having it turned on is you want to show them where in advance to turn that on and advanced on the pro stitcher the thread brake sensor right there that should do it that should do it part of the way you have to turn it on two different ways now we're gonna go up to our bar to our pro stitcher you're doing the same thing I am here we go Mouse use your mouse go now go up to the HQ and now we need to go to our settings and alarms and our alarm was turned on so it was it's on there that's good but we need to have both of us both on the machine and so that's just something for you to know that those both have to be turned on there it's not gonna stop and this one alright song so we've gone quite a ways now we need to come back yeah we're gonna have to okay go for it okay so let's look it go ahead how about if I thread the thing first sure why not sure way to get notice well I'll get out of your way yeah yeah you'll let me thread it here clip a good sharp point there and thread this okay there that wasn't too difficult was it nope alright and can I bring up the bobbin thread it's still attached do you want to leave it a test no okay no I don't know good I just didn't know where you were going with this so I'm gonna go ahead and trim that okay and now it's yours okay so we need to restart what's the zoom in the way I like to do this and there are lots of tools but I like to get right over where I want to start sewing again are really close to it first now that's not exactly where I'm going to end up okay this is where I like to move the Machine and with the crosshairs right over that point I turn on the follow option follow centers I should be using my mouse follow sorry centers the crosshairs in the middle of your screen and as you use the zoom tools you can zoom right in on exactly there's my way yeah so this is the one this is the way that I normally do have vicky showed us a little while ago the way she does it with the zoom tool here where she clicks and drags a marquee around the space that she wants to enlarge and that makes it a little bit easier but we each do these different ways depending on that's not what we're used to either way I love having all these as many options so with my crosshairs and remember the crosshairs represent the needle so my needle is here on the quilt at that point in the pattern and so my crosshairs reflect that on the screen here I'm going to go to the pro stitcher - how do you do that though tell me what this little orange dot is that little orange dot shows us where we canceled the quilting or where we stopped quilting last which would be useful if we were going to start sewing in that end point what we're not so because we let the Machine stitch for so long without thread we have quite a stop to back up right okay so that's what that little orange guy tells you this is where the machine was stitching when we cancelled or paused the quilting so here zoom in then pro stitcher tab pro stitcher tab is where we're going to find the new start and end functions that's how we can change where the machine is going to start to sew or stop sewing anytime we choose in the new start and end this is where we're going to choose where we want to begin stitching again now in the sidebar we have options to set the start point and options to set the end point okay but for now we're only concerned with restarting this whole channel or this whole column this is all about the start point and so there are several different features here that we can use the one we're going to start with now is the auto feature and when I hit the auto feature it brings the start point of the pattern right here to my crosshairs that's pretty cool isn't it now if I if I move the the needle right now if I move the crosshairs around right now it follows you the pattern follows or the start point follows so this is a two-step process this is an active tool and I know we've talked about active tools before but as long as this is green then it's automatically going to continue bringing the start point to my crosshairs so in order to fix the start point there I have to hit it a second time and deactivate the feature and now when does the machine it stays where it is so don't forget to use that Auto twice that that can mess you up a little bit you'll set your start point and then move the machine and suddenly you'll go somewhere you don't expect it to go and that's not very exciting when you when the machine decides to go off in a direction that you're not expecting okay so right now the start point is right over where my thread brake was so I that's not where I want to stop hey yeah my question is do you want to do it on a curve or would you be would it be better and less obvious if you moved it to a point it could be less obvious but if we're really careful about how we do this we can do a pretty good job of connecting even on a long okay go for curve you know if I if I had a great place to go hide my tie on a little bit better I might wasn't solid fabric you could hide it exactly and where or where there's some can you know thread congestion already like at a point where several threads come together but really on this pattern there's not much of a good place to to hide we don't usually use this high contrast thread like you know not always sure exactly so Vicki brought up our thread and she trimmed our thread tails even with the quilt top right both thread tails so I don't want to start sewing right there I want to back up my stitching I don't know three or five stitches when they stitch over the top they lost each other so they stitched directly over each other that to me makes all the difference in the play now I can keep moving the Machine around but that doesn't give me the opportunity to show you the next part of the new start and end okay and that is these little arrows down here I can arrow the pattern or the start point either backwards or forwards using this and this okay and I want to back up into my pattern so I'm just going to back up okay a couple of dip line segments until I know that my stitching is going to overlap okay and then when I'm ready to start sewing and I'm gonna go ahead and double check just to make sure how far down there's a little more in there probably than I need I'm gonna go back forward another line segment or okay I think that's gonna give me what I want then the way I usually do this is I turn the machine speed down pretty slow when I'm getting started again because I want to make sure that these pieces line up correctly okay and as long as the machine is stitching really slowly then I have the ability to manipulate the quilt top a little bit but we didn't shift anything well we didn't shift anything but remember the draw in as that quilt begins - so I mean it's the machine begins to sew and the quilt starts to draw in a little bit we don't have control over okay how that's happening so we have to account for it a bit with you know I trust I know we think that we should never have to touch the quilt again once we have a pro stitcher but even every once in a while you still want to get your hands like right so I'm going to go - well I guess I don't need to do it there I'm gonna go to the quilting or quilting options and the pro stitcher and I'm going to change the speed settings on the pro stitcher so that it it doesn't stitch sight quite so like our way slow I'm going to go down to the very slow down to snail speed while we're getting started and then all I have to do here is turn on the tie feature here tie on and pull up okay before I resume we only paused our quilting we didn't cancel that's true we're still so if we started sewing again right now Pro stitcher wouldn't have tied on it would have just taken off it would okay what had done it turtle speed or snail speeds but it would have started sewing a different tie offs and you've got it set probably at the micro so it doesn't do a back and forth I don't I'm not sure cuz I honestly didn't set the machine but I assume that it's set for a micro that's the way I like it at home okay okay so since we're in the middle of quilting I'd have to cancel the quilting in order to test one good because it's still gonna start we have it set just exactly where we want it to yeah but I have a feeling that we're gonna get exactly what we want out of that inning okay okay so let's hit resume okay a machine driving itself very slowly now when it pulls up and moves over I look at that thread to make sure that it had on that it's dead-on and if it's not dead-on that's when I put my hands on the quilt to manipulate the quilt just a little bit while it's getting started I'm gonna bring both those can I hold him please all right and now you're gonna whoops I'm gonna use the mouse to hit resume old habits die hard don't they okay and then while it's taking the try stitching I see I'm putting my hand down just a hair to keep it right on okay then pause and then I can change the speed again whoops maybe not that high okay and then I don't want to tie when I resume this time so I'm turning those off okay okay well Susan we stitched a little of this and then we've kind of decided we wanted to do something more rather than just watching this stitch right so we're actually going to clear this off I want you to show me there I know in the wrap there are two functions there was that wrap with a window exactly and then there's the wrap with a row right and I want you to show that and then after we get that planned then we'll talk about finding the right position when we lose our position right exactly okay so let's clear the design that we have made okay it's going to close what could we just not do clear all we could but that would take away the area too and I want to use our area again but the areas we're not in the right place what do you want to move in should we set a new one oh yes let's move it okay so let's close the selected display and then move the needle okay to the point where you want to start my upper left-hand corner okay I have it here okay so from the sidebar in the workspace tab we have the option to select the area so I can select it here and you notice that it turned green so that means it can be edited that means it's been selected that's what that green tells you is that it and I can add elected and I can edit it so we could resize it we can move okay it's just like a design at this point exactly and then we're going to use modify what I have another tool you want to do it go ahead I love this too okay go for it okay you you're running the mouse I'm just going to tell you what you tell me what you do go ahead and go down to below zoom and press X form okay so what that does and it's gonna take a minute to do it it's gonna put handles on there it is this I want you now to move the top line down to my crosshair okay and now we have just put the top corner where I want we did and we don't have to do anything at the bottom because our field is the same length that it was before we just removed the top part of what we just did from our area that's pretty slick fun thing okay now what do we do okay well now we go to the file tab and we open up a new pattern okay once a night how do I get rid of my handles well I think they're gonna go away when we start doing something else can I show sure so on the xform and the zoom and the pan and the select they're all toggle between those four so if I want to get rid of them right now I have to hit one of those other three right so if I had this select tool and then click on the screen and it goes the handles go and they're pink again and yes but they're also not just pink but the line doesn't look the same wait what got it it's got it and what does that mean that means that the area has been altered in some way since we can pick up and move an area from one place to another if we could inadvertently move an area so we could get into show modify to action yeah I was gonna move the area downwards rather than yours was a smarter option considering the length of our quilt yeah they're both works they do okay all right now I need a design okay so file tab design open and we're going to choose can we bring this closer to you sure traditional clamshell design here and open okay so I can see that this clam shell is three wide mm-hmm and one-and-a-half high okay so what's what's the height size of our area do we remember that so it's not exactly there's some half-measure almost 39 inches yeah so so if we do a fit it'll almost fit perfect let's do repeat fit whoa that's it's a lot and there's a lot of designs all I can see we have extra space mm-hmm and so how are you gonna address this well we have lots of ways but again we can stretch let's just see what that does to our if we go to the horizontal options and choose to stretch how is that going to make us feel about our proportion clam shells typically a half circle but that's still it still looks like a half circle it's amazing how easily you can fool yourself yeah okay but we don't have enough so we could stretch it and that made about and let's stretch the vertical noting the vertical yeah I think that I could live with it except it's not offset the way it's supposed to be you're right when we do our traditional clam shells and when we do them with rulers and so for what if I wanted this to be a bigger clam shell well we could take out some repeats let's take out some repeats okay let's do it well take out so there's 28 vertical rows we can take out some rows to make our clam shells tall if we kept going before long they'd start looking like little Easter eggs or maybe little minions or something okay okay go down to 20 okay we'll go down to 20 okay and let's look at our horizontal options do we want that many going across well let's take some of those out as well okay let's take out a couple so I'm just hitting the minus buttons to remove the number so now it'll be less dense we quilted which you know for this I'm for me okay okay all right so now what how do we so here we want to change the offset of every other row and we do that in the wrap feature so we're in the repeat tab we're gonna change from basic to the wrap and then over here in the sidebar you'll remember before we wrapped the window this time we're gonna skip down to the row and we are going to use half okay because wrapping the window by half gives us exactly what we want from the clamshell right it's pretty cool right so that's definitely a half offset there may be some that's 33% oh yeah there are lots of patterns like that and there and actually you don't always know what offset is anticipated or expected by your pattern if you know how to use this feature to wrap the rows there are lots of patterns in the pro stitcher and of course lots out there in the marketplace available that you must know how much offset right to make the pattern fit correctly so the other thing about this is that I can get a lot more rows stitch before I have to advance oh for sure this is a great pattern for that yeah and you know a lot of people are using this as mini oh I love to do that okay so we have some quilts sure I'm I'm just gonna bring them over here so on our quilts here this is exactly that little clam she sure is and so you reduce that down till you head and just like this and made it down to where each individual clamshell is about between a half and three quarters of an inch wide about a hibachi so then you created an area mm-hmm multi-point area place that in there cropped it and you've got this that's right and the same thing with any one of these everyone at this or any one of the designs that you have here and these are designs that are actually an art and stairs right every one of those came out of art and stitch and so you can do awesome you can stitch those clam shells this big or you can stitch them this big and I love that and I makes that so much easier for us yeah okay so just just I you know I just took you off in another direction that's okay bring this back we kind of have a tendency to do that yeah we're quilters yep okay so now we're ready to quilt mm-hmm almost okay what's we got a baseline all right so have a lot of repeats there for the pro stitcher to the paper so let's baseline our design and then we would save it okay so we'll do I'll say maybe the workspace this time okay we'll save the workspace and we're going to navigate to let's go to my fault what if we just leave it in the workspace fine we have a workspace folder or does it it saves it in that work in ways this particular folders okay designs so if we were to let's go ahead and save it and we can type in any number or it gives it a number we'll just let it give that it gave it well I'm just gonna show it cuz it's easier to see it gave it or assigned workspace number 91 52 it'll always change the number and if I wanted to I could rename this to keys clam shells all right there you go okay but I'm just gonna save it the way it is alright so now let's clear everything off of this screen okay let's clear off but by ok now I need to bring this back onto the screen so how we didn't really mean for me to do that is that what you're told to do when it'll put it right back there but where am I gonna find it in workspace so file not design file workspace ok and here workspace and there's 9150 to our workspace right at the top ok so there it is and is it in the right place I hope so sometimes it brings it in but a lot of times it doesn't well since we haven't turned off the machine it what it is right today it just kept it that's right yay if it didn't then we'd have to figure out how to get it back right and the way I I like to use the reposition mm-hm and the top-left corner mm-hmm and if I have a whole quilt I do that too if I have if I hadn't stitched anything today before I had to turn off and come back tomorrow then I would just set the area and reposition or a line and design right into the area okay well I really think we ought to stitch a couple of rows and then we're going to show how to advance right okay all right so everybody with your met with your little yes I've got the mountain I've got the thread I got the thread so Prost at your tab quilt and all of our options are selected okay so run I'm gonna move over there gotten both of my threads and their go-to clam shells all right we'll let them stitch we'll come back and we'll figure out how to move this okay sounds good okay Susan we've got some rows here and if we want to do more rows I'd like to advance it forward yep so so do your matchy okay so bring them needle down to the bottom of the stitching pretty close to the BI okay now there's no science in this it just needs to be close to the bottom of the stitching doesn't have to be in any particular point and then we're gonna drop the needle so you're saying it doesn't necessarily have to be there unless you're unless you feel more comfortable mm-hmm so I feel more comfortable okay I'll drop it right there at that little point better I feel so much better okay so we've dropped the needle now the way I like to think about this is we've got our pattern set up here on this dress and I just want you to visualize this imagine that we had this pattern on a big piece of paper it's big paper and it was printed and we laid that pattern out until it matched right here and we just pinned it down with the needle okay okay just keep that in mind all right now we're gonna activate the drag tool the drag tool takes that pattern and has the pattern go wherever the needle goes okay so think of that pattern pinned down by the needle and we've activated drag so what you've done is you've taken the needle and grabbed a hold of the fabric that's right and then the screen by pressing that drag grabs a hold of the design at the same place actually okay so they're gonna stay locked together that's right they're gonna stay together exactly until we drop the pattern okay but we're not going to do that until after we've advanced the quilt and finished all the manipulations that we need to do with the fabric okay so I'm gonna go ahead and place my clamps on this side and then we're gonna loosen the poles okay release the ratchets that's right and then we have to be careful here because we don't want to put any unnecessary drag on the needle so we always want to add a little bit of slack at the front first okay okay your mouth softer than that yeah so put some slack and then roll the back bar and watch the pattern advance on the strip I saw it go went right up out of the area which exactly what the quilts doing is going up we all in it there you go okay so can you advance it some we couldn't keep our eye on it watching days here that's good the more space we have the more quilting when it just keeps going up there after advancing okay that's good for now is it okay but for now I would have done more but we're we're good okay and then you're gonna go ahead and tension and set because we have the pole cradles we could write if that or so now we already normally pop the bar out and put it in the pole cradles so we could get underneath the quilt top and smooth out our and then batting lamp and on put the clamps back on okay I'm doing my clamp now Susan I can't stitch this down because my needles in the fabric well we can cancel the quit after we draw no we can't cancel okay yes we can don't worry Vicky we can do it but that's what panics you know our quilters sometimes is what do I do now so I'm letting you tell me what to do next well I want to make sure that everything's nice and smooth I want to make sure in particular that there's no bunched up fabric around the needle like it's been pulled exactly because if I drop to the pattern and raise the needle the quilt will shift a little right so I particularly want to make sure there's no pressure being put on that needle and then looking at your screen to make sure that because I bet you I can move that you could trouble we know what I know I just wanted to point that out that's why I like the area yeah that's a good point I like you know okay I like that you left the area in there I put smarty pants okay hi okay so what we need to do now is drop the pattern now anybody that's looking here can tell that the pattern shifted up out of the area that we had set up long that's a good idea okay and you can see that we advanced the quilt so our area isn't really it's accurate to where our quilt was before we moved it but it shows you exactly how the pattern moved with the quilt sandwich which is cool I know I do so I'm gonna drop the pattern okay right here we're gonna drop this is another one of those tools that's active and then D a toggle tool right it said drag before and when we clicked it now it says drop so when we drop the pattern it's landed where it's supposed to be we're gonna raise the needle and then if you want to check your accuracy although you really don't need to but you can you can drive the needle along your pattern and compare it here to how it aligns on the screen okay and it really did go it might a was suppose to so now I know that my needles out of the fabric I can go ahead and just you down my side I'll let you do your side okay and then you can do yours and if you want to you can place this into the basting stitch but I'm just going to go ahead and quickly stitch that down less than a quarter in and normally when you're doing edge to edge quilting you would put on your glide food I would exactly always almost always use my glide foot fur unless I want a foot for some other reason some other foot yeah we probably should have put it on but okay and now you're going to go into the other side down and we'll be ready to stitch our next full throat space here [Applause] okay there we go so we've advanced but does the Machine know where to go to the next start point so right now if you look at our pattern the start point is at the very beginning it's at the very first stitch point but we didn't cancel our quilting all we did was pause between rows so when we hit resume Pro stitcher is going to go and start stitching the beginning of the fifth row it knows so if our customers are quilters are a little nervous they could actually move their machete over to the row that would be right there beginning and if it doesn't go there then we know we did something exactly good choice okay all right so one more thing mm-hmm okay I know it's gonna go there but I'm gonna actually do something I know what you're gonna do I want you to fix something because this is what happens okay I'm gonna actually take this and we're gonna I'm gonna press this you know to cancel the quilt capsule of quilting because we can go back I'm actually gonna drag that away okay it's not in position I'm not afraid would you show our filters how to get mind back I am not scared now if my area were truly set I could put it back in my area do a skew and just exactly we're not put it back look at that so we are out of position exactly so what we're gonna do now is pretend like we closed yard and then we shut our machine down at the end of the day and we're gonna come back and it's tomorrow morning and we're gonna open our pattern so I really wouldn't need the area on there nope we're not gonna need the area anymore so we can clear the area okay okay but but so I Pro stitcher doesn't have any eyes right it can't tell what's going on here on the quilt so this is where we're gonna use our own tools and our own powers of observation to realign the pattern through the existing stitching okay now we stitched one two three four rows in this case rows one and two or just repeat it again and again and again and again sometimes we're on a pattern though that isn't the same every other row right may be an offset pattern full of florals or something and each row shifts over a little bit so we would normally want to pick the 0 the correct okay and so this is important we're going to use the same tools to reposition the pattern and to tell pro stitcher where we want it to start sewing again but we're going to do them in completely separate distinct operations I think what happens to quilters sometimes is they start thinking about these two separate operations as one and they get a little bit confused so we're going to identify a point in our pattern that we can also see in our existing stitching that has already been exactly so we have to find what I call an easily identifiable point in our stitching and then we have to find the same point on the screen so my thought would be the start point yeah the start point or an end point one or the other thing that you can get to examine if you've advanced it too far and you can't get to the start point then maybe somewhere in the bottom one of these are thrown to match at home because this is a neat this is a perfectly reasonable place to start but it's easier to move the start point than it is to do okay some other art is a pattern so we're on the fourth row here okay and we want to use the start point of the fourth row in our pattern so I'm going to use my mouse to zoom in there and here's the beginning of Row 1 and Row 2 and Row 2 and don't let that confuse you because we've offset this pattern by half by 50% the start point of Row 1 and Row 2 are also like the same point right so let's get up across exactly so here's our pro stitcher tab here's the new start and end check this number out here this is the segment number line segment number and right now it's at 0 which is how we know that our start point is at the beginning of the pattern if we're going to use the same jump tool that we were talking about using earlier where we can just jump down uh-huh through the rows we're gonna hit that jump down and now look at our start point jump again so if I'm confused that I see my numbers exactly that number is a key for you that's your cue - no oh I sure did jump down a row mm-hmm all right so here's the beginning of the third row and one more jump will put us at the beginning of the fourth row okay okay so now we're we've matched the two points we need to put them in the same place okay so I'm going to move my needle over here to the first stitch point of that row okay can't is that I'm not quite right there I'll just drop your knees down okay and the only reason we're dropping the needle is so the Machine doesn't move around while we're doing this it's not part of the process but it's a stability thing and then we're leaving the pro stitcher tab and we're going back to the modify tools and we're going to modify reposition okay this is this tool has so many different options to use but we're going to focus for now on the start point this tool repositions the start point of the design - your needle wherever your needle is so by putting the needle there where the needle is I'm glair up there yeah the needle is way up there yeah we're way out of position okay so watch what happens okay so modify reposition start point okay refresh so part one is done we told the pro stitcher to put the pattern back so that it lines up with our previous quilting and if we raise the needle now again we can drive along the pattern and we can see that we line up correctly with the existing stitching on the quilt but that's I've already stitched that row we don't want to stitch that row again so so we're going to go back to the pro stitcher new start and end and this time we're going to jump one more row downward so look at our segment number now we're at line segment 963 okay and when I jump again the start point goes to the beginning of the next row and we're ready to sew okay let's do it okey-dokey well here I'll let you do the sewing I've got the button all right well before we start stitching I just want to thank you for coming today this has been delightful I hope that you have learned as viewers something more that this makes sense to you this has been so fun love gin with you you took here you're a favor thank you thank you for having ink a lot so when we show up in the morning like this without plans like our colors yes right so thank you future is yours and mine I love it favorite - only the best - yeah any you know we're always looking for new things to think to do different ways but thank you for joining us in having me don't forget if you haven't subscribed to our YouTube channel look at the little button below the video and subscribe so that you'll get a notice of all of our videos and everything that we're doing at handi quilter thank you for joining us join us again next month for another fun HQ live you

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