Design Placement

Design Placement Tutorial 1 This tutorial is applicable to all embroidery machines. Many quilts and projects require you to position up to six or so designs onto a block with very precise matching of points within the designs. When Carolyn started to teach her own quilting classes she developed a suitable technique that would help her students who did not share her love of geometry, or whose school days were long forgotten This tutorial will help you expand your embroidery in two dimensions. Many quilt blocks for machine motif embroidery need to position at least four or more designs together - more than you can customize even with the large hoops now on the . Placement covers many aspects of placing the fabric in the hoop, such as grain lines, templates, stabilizing, using Hoop Ease, using a fix or basting tool, and hoop clips. Carolyn also covers the use if Aida cloth for cross-stitch, making your own adhesive stabilizer, and making a transparent template of a design. There is a great section at the end where she gives you a complete run-down on all types of stabilizers and their uses. If you want to learn more about design placement, this tutorial will be very helpful. If you have any unfinished objects (or UFOs) where blocks have been abandoned due to frustration with placement problems, go get it, and work through this tutorial with it. Here is a picture of one page of this 28 page tutorial. Please click it to see it

Design Placement Tutorial 2   This tutorial teaches you how to place designs in a triangular shaped arrangement, instead of the usual square. Carolyn has created a template that will guide the placement of this.  Full step by step photos of how to use the template to mark up a block and position designs.  Included are 4 fan designs for use in the tutorial - 2 heirloom, 1 pansy fan and an applique fan for creative techniques.   Here are 2 screen shots of the tutorial, and the 4 fan pictures are the designs that are included with the tutorial.

Design Placement Tutorial 3     This is the third in the Design Placement series of tutorials.  Details include how to place six or twelve design in a circular arrangement using a hexagon template. Also, step by step instructions for a full heirloom cushion as well as detailed information on how to use this template system for any designs you have. Includes 3 designs all for the small hoop. Here are 2 screen shots from the tutorial, and also a picture of the Heirloom Cushion that you will construct as part of this lesson.

Design Placement Tutorial 4   Embroidery on Formal Ware Continious Embroidery Placement Across Panels   This tutorial is about creating embroidered fabric for evening or formal ware.  If you are hesitant about tackling a project like this then you are not alone!   Carolyn faced the same dilemma  when she was asked to work on both the bride and bridesmaids gowns for her sons wedding earlier this year.  Creating the embroidery design was easy but the pressure of getting them onto the gowns was not.  This tutorial covers the steps that she used to embroider the various panels of the brides bustier and the entire bodice for the bridesmaids gown. The bodice for the bridesmaids' gown, although in simple sections, had to be covered with embroidery.  Creating embroidered fabric became quite a leaning curve for Carolyn and she ended up wearing an off-the-shelf outfit herself, as she ran out of time to make her own gown.    The designs that she used are included.  The full sized designs are for the Viking Large hoop 240 x 150 but she has also included a smaller set for the Midsize hoop as well as a split set for the multiposition PLUS hoop.  The VIP designs are sized to fit the 224 x 150 hoop and there is a set for the Pfaff Creative multipart hoop.(225 x 90).   Here is a picture of the embroidery that you will create in this tutorial.be featured in t his tutorial.