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Category Archives: Digitizing
Portfolio
The Portfolio section of the Bernina Designer Plus, is the file management area. Here you can navigate to any folder on your computer and view thumb nails of the designs in that folder. You can sort designs, access designs from … Continue reading
Puffy Foam
Puffy Foam is used in embroidery to pad stitching to give a three dimensional look. Sulky produce packs of this foam in 2mm and 3mm thicknesses. You need to use foam that tears easily. Not all foam sheets will work. … Continue reading
IN THE HOOP QUILTING
QUILTING IN THE HOOP I reccently uploaded a video on creating quilt outlines from lettering in the Bernina Designer Plus software. I’ve embedded it at the end of this post, but it occurred to me that it might be helpful … Continue reading
Machine Embroidery Cut Work Bat Stamp
Embroiderers have been using cut work to embellish fabric for centuries. Lace like designs are created by cutting away areas of the fabric and then stitching around the raw edges of the holes with various embroidery stitches to both decorate … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernina Cutwork, Halloween, machine embroidery projects
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Art Canvass for Designer Plus and Editor Plus
Editor Plus, unlike Designer Plus has no manual digitizing tools. Those of you with this level of software rely on Auto digitizing which works best when you start with a good image. Finding a good image of what you would … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Canvass, Bernina Designer Plus digitizing tutorials, Bitmap, Editor Plus, Graphic, Vector
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Digitizing parallel lines made easy
The Bernina Designer Plus software has a tool for creating parallel or offset lines around closed objects. No longer do you have to painstakingly manually create and position these lines. But what about creating parallel lines with objects that are … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernina Designer Plus digitizing tutorials, offset lines
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Embedding to avoid jump stitches
In this video I look at another way to reduce jump stitches. I am again using a lettering object and the Mirror Merge function. This time I am using a procedure I call “embedding”. While changing the stitch order of … Continue reading
Lettering and Mirror Merge
In this Bernina Digitizing tutorial, I work with a design sent to me by Denise. She had digitized the design with the letter N from the Vivaldi True Type font, using the Mirror Merge function. This resulted in lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernina Designer Plus digitizing tutorials, jump stitches, lettering, Mirror Merge
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Pull Compensation
What is pull compensation? Pull Compensation is the adjustment made to compensate for the inevitable pulling in, or shrinking, of your design, which occurs when the design is stitched out. It is just one of the factors you need to … Continue reading
