We're going to start off by embroidering a name, so let's go down to the font folder,
touch okay.
Let's do use the Claritan 20.
It's a nice size.
The last thing I put in here was viking, so if I wanted to clear that out, let's just
go ahead, I'll just do my name, it's a little shorter.
I'll do capital S and then I'll change it to lower case and then do a-r, okay, and then
back to a, okay.
Now to get this to go to the embroidery screen, touch program.
People always forget: what do I touch?
Program is what you want.
Next we want to go ahead and set the hoop to the size we're using.
We're using the 360 by 200 hoop, so touch the hoop options button, and at the top here
the hoop size.
I've also set this in my hoops in the settings to only show the two hoops I currently own
which is great, cause then I don't have a huge laundry list of which ones to pick from.
Let me go to Alt, and then I'm just going to move this to the top part of the hoop so
then we can embroider and save this other area for some of our other embroidery.
You'll notice that it will ... up here it doesn't go all the way up to the top of the
hoop.
That's because you usually, you have to allow for the area behind the foot so it doesn't
always hit the hoop.
Then I always go ahead and touch okay and see where is that actually going to embroider.
It's tracing around all the way, and if I want that to actually be centered on the line
that I have currently drawn, I'm going to go ahead and tip it over a couple spots.
Now one thing I often do, is I'll often look what my numbers are here.
I'm minus three so I was three to this side; and then up 169.
If you want to write that down if you ever needed to get back to that point because something
happened in the middle you'd know exactly where you started.
When we touch Alt we can come back to this screen.
You can also push start/stop from that screen.
It will jump right to you.
Then as soon as I push the start/stop button I'm going to hold onto this thread.
Watch what I'm going to do.
As I touch and push it, it's going to just double check the hoop that I put in; there's
some movement here.
Count to three: one, two three.
And then at three, pull your thread that you're holding onto because that's when the cutter
actually cuts and let's you pull it right on out.
So here it's going to start to stitch on the lettering of the design.Now here's a note
about letters.
Right now we have four letters up and it says color one of four.
When you pick letters it starts off by putting the stop button on, and that light is there.
That light always comes up, because on a regular design you want it to stop after each color.
With lettering, what it's going to do is it's going to stop after the S, and it's going
to stop after the a and the r.
If you don't want it to stop after each letter, what you want to do is reach up here and turn
off the stop button.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to let it stitch out and show you what it's going to
look like and then ... most people end up stitching one letter and remembering, oh yeah,
I've got to turn that off; remember at that point to turn it off.
Just make sure that if you are needing to stop your machine, this is not the button
you use.
You must use the start/stop button.
If you use the stop button, that light goes off and then the rest of your design, if you
had like four-color design, it will actually stitch all the rest of the colors without
stopping, and you're like, "Whoops."
So it's going to come up and it's going to say, "Change to a new color."
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to at this time take the light off--oh yeah, and you have to touch okay.
There we go--touch okay.
Push the stop button so that light no longer is on, then go ahead and push the start/stop
button.
There's the cut; I really didn't hold onto that thread so I'll have to go ahead and do
a little trimming down there.
But now I'll go ahead and stitch the rest of the letters without stopping all the way
through.
You can see that on the machine it will show us that we have, in this letter, 360 stitches
and what stitch we're actually on.
Total count here, which is nice.
If you ever need to charge somebody by how many stitches, you can go, "Okay, this design
has 10,000 stitches, and then have a price per thousand stitches.
That's one way that a lot of people charge for embroidery.
I always say charge by the hour because then you know how much you're worth per hour and
then that way you ca make sure you're getting you're getting what you're worth.
If they don't want to pay you, no problem.
That means more time for the sewing and embroidery you want to do.
Watch here as it finishes the a.
It will just go right to the next letter without stopping.
It will do a cut because it does cut between letters which is nice.
Then keep on going.
When the embroidery design is finished, touch okay.
To get out of the design you're in, touch the stitch menu button.
Again, people forget what to touch an they just go and turn their machine off, which
works, but this is so much quicker.
Touch the stitch menu button, and then to get out of your lettering, arrow to the right,
or left.
That's what that little arrow's for.
So arrow to the left and then you'll be back at your main menu and you can go and pick
a new design.
When you're done, go ahead and take your hoop off and you'll notice your cuts from the top
and from the back side.
Then you can take a look, we'll check, we'll talk about tension too, what you want to look
for on the back of your embroidery.
But look at that!
Other than that last little guy that I didn't clip.
We'll use some curved embroidery scissors, lift up, clip and clip.
Now it's perfect.