[amayausers] Re: cleaning up 'stock' designs
- From: Kushnerick <bkushner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:15:52 -0600
Roland
"Dissecting" good designs is a great way to learn how to digitize. Like
you, I have a much better understanding of underlays, pathing, stitch
length, densities, techniques, etc. simply by what I have learned from
editing designs.
Enjoy your weekend.
Bob
Roland R. Irish III wrote:
>Cleaning up stock designs has been the best 'training' tool for me so
>far...I deconstruct the designs color by color to figure out why a
>certain underlayment was used, or how the design was setup to avoid
>constant thread cuts, etc.
>In the process I have figured out how to delete unused stitching, got
>better at setting up 'automatic' fill and underlayment, density, etc.
>I can now go through a design 'from the bottom up' and figure out the
>most economical way to set up the color sequence for fewest thread
>changes.
>Even to using a stitch running from one area to another as an
>underlayment for a different color going above it.
>Example: 'flesh' hands and face on a figure-start with left hand,
>stitch that out, thread runs up the arm and makes a centerline and/or
>underlayment there, moves to face-does face, then down other arm, and
>does the other hand.
>When the next color sews, for a 'jacket' or something-the
>underlayment is already there.
>And I find setting up designs like this I no longer get fabric shift
>or puckering because of the 'tack down' created by a running stitch
>between color areas as I get rid of thread cuts/color changes. And
>with each color change taking 15-20 seconds- one design I went from
>around 18 color changes to 6...without deleting any colors-just
>setting up a logical color sew sequence. Cut the time to sew in half!
>I am always taking dakota designs apart now-mostly just to steal part
>of a design and add it to something else!
>Not being a creative 'artist' this saves me a lot of $$ I'd have to
>pay someone else to make up the artwork.
>
>Roland
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