Sometimes, hooping crooked is actually fun, when you use the design positioning.
Sometimes when you hoop you don't always have the luxury of getting everything in there
straight, maybe it's part of a jacket and the buttons are over here so you can get away
from them, or get away from the collar, or a thicker part.
I've gone ahead and drawn my line a little sideways here, that's just what we're going
to do.
I'm going to put my name right on this line to show you how you get this set up.
The first thing we're going to do is go ahead and put the hoop on the machine.
Now, I'm going to go ahead and get my letters.
Let's go ahead.
I'm going to use the Claredon 30, and I'll put my name in.
I'll put in uppercase and lowercase.
I love this option.
We have the 120 x 120 hoop selected, and just go ahead and select "Go".
Once you're on this side of the screen, now we're going to need to be looking over here
and over here as I talk.
The design positioning is going to be this little flower with the 4 directional arrows.
As you're getting here, there's a couple of things you can use this screen before.
#1, if you just want to trace around the design, see where each of the corners are, you can
do that.
You can also find where the center of the design is.
Right now, if I wanted to center that design I could, if I had my items lined up correctly,
I could move my design up or down on the screen.
OK?
It really doesn't matter where I start, because what we're going to work with are the 4 steps
that are right here at the bottom side.
#1.
Now here's how I always keep in mind how this is going to work, is #1 and #3, notice there's
a picture of the flower.
That means you are looking at the design on the screen.
Then steps #2 an #4, we're looking at the hoop.
So I'm going to kind of ... Sometimes I want your eyes over here, and then sometimes I
want your eyes over here, depending on what we're doing.
Now step #1, and at the very top of the screen it will say, "Move the red cursor to set a
locked point."
OK.
What we're going to do is I want to position my name along the line that's on the fabric.
Here's the red cursor.
I can just go ahead and slide that over.
I could put that down here at the corner, but not all letters have that little part
that comes down, so I'm going to actually bring that close to the lower part of the
S.
Now, again, I can't really see if I'm on where I want to be, so I'm going to use the zoom
functions.
We're at the zoom box.
I can drag a small, little box around there, and see, did I really get that little point
where it needs to be?
I can touch and drag it.
I can also use the little arrow up and down on the screen here, and get it exactly where
I want it.
I kind of want it on the lowest part of the letters there.
OK.
I'm going to zoom back out, and zoom to all so I can see the whole name there.
Now, step #1 is done.
Step #2 ... Remember, step #1 we were looking at this screen this whole time.
Step #2, now we're going to look at the hoop.
Step #2 says, "Move the gray locked point to the chosen position on the fabric, and
check needle on the fabric."
We're going to tip the handwheel towards us and sink the needle in, and see we've actually
come closest to the line.
Right now my line's way back here.
I can touch the screen and just slide it and get in the general vicinity of where I need
to go.
Once I'm there I can use the little, small positioning.
Turning my handwheel down, I can see I'm pretty much there.
Going to move that a little bit more.
OK.
I am on the line right now.
Next, because my line is not straight, we need to spin the design, or spin the name
so the rest of the name keeps going across the side there.
Step #3 is going to say, "Move the red cursor to set a point to rotate."
Now I'm going to just slide this little window aside, kind of collapse it down.
Here's my new one.
If I just touch over here, so I can touch anywhere on this screen, but I really want
to find kind of one of those letters there.
Once again, I'm going to zoom in, zoom to box, drag a little box around that area, and
see how I'm now really where I want to be, so I can just bring that down a little bit
closer.
Now I really know I'm going to be spot on here.
I'm going to zoom back out, zoom to all.
Great.
What we've done is, do you notice that the 1st one turned into a little kind of crosshair,
because in step #4 ... Remember step #3?
We're over here on this screen.
Step #4, we're going to be looking at the hoop.
Now, this is a rotation spot.
That is locked.
Now when I touch and drag my point, I am spinning my design into position.
So, the needle is this little plus right here.
I'm going to turn my handwheel down.
I'm close but not there.
Oh, this is perfect.
I love this.
This message that comes up says, "Raise the needle."
When I tipped my needle down, I didn't raise it very far, just a little bit above the fabric.
The machine will ask you, "If you are a smart person, you will not leave that needle down
in the fabric and then move the hoop any further."
They give you that option to say, "Yes.
I'm going to allow myself to leave the needle lower."
You're like kind of confirming that you're not going to do something silly and leave
your needle in the fabric.
It's kind of nice, because then it's a little closer for viewing, and then we can twist
that in.
Now of course, when you're here with these arrows, notice we're in rotation, so only
the right and left arrows are highlighted.
The top and bottom are grayed out.
Because we're spinning here, so whichever way you want to go.
I can see, whoa, I am on the line.
Now if I want to go ahead and zoom out, I'm going to zoom, let me just zoom to hoop.
You can kind of see where I am.
When the position of the letters, you can find that you are right where you need to
be.
Now if I want to go ahead and put my center right back here, I'm going to notice that
I'm not technically on the center line.
I can go ahead and move that, slide that over if I want to.
I still have this same angle that I'm looking for.
I'm going to just go ahead and stitch.
You'll see that when we start everything will be on the line where we need it to be.
So just go ahead, and we'll just stitch this out real quick.
Now that our design is finished, you can see how perfect we were on the line that we drew,
because of the position mark we used to put on this line, and also the one that we put
over here.
It is awesome to not have to actually hoop straight, just go ahead and get it in the
general vicinity while you're doing it.
Now just to kind of give you an idea, we also have, like let's say we wanted to add a little
design to this heart.
We're going to do one more thing with this.
We're going to come in, and we're going to take off our name here.
Just touch it.
Delete it.
If we come in and do a similar concept, we're going to take this little, how about this
little guy here, and we'll tell it which hoop we're using.
Because we have it in a 360 x 200 hoop.
Go ahead and tell it "Go".
If we wanted to do a similar thing, I want to line up this point of the flower, or of
the heart, what you have is, let's say you take a design, or you take something out of
the hoop and you're going, "Gosh, I wish I had something else on that."
Go ahead and put it back in the hoop.
It doesn't matter where it is.
You can use the design positioning to reposition something, and then connect to it.
We're going to go ahead and do the design positioning just one more time, to really
kind of get you understanding the full concept of what we have.
I'm going to zoom in, I'm going to zoom the box, and drag the little box around here.
I kind of was playing around with this, and so what I wanted to do was actually take this
1st item.
The 1st one is to move the red cursor to a place you want to mark it.
I want to go ahead and kind of find down, and I'm going to do a little closer here,
because I really need to see like the little "V" of this area.
I'm going to bring it right about there, a little over to the side.
Good.
I'm going to mark that.
Step #2.
On the hoop, I want that to be moved down to right here.
I'm going to go ahead and now just, I'm going to zoom out.
Zoom to hoop.
Or even just zoom all, because then I can see the design.
Then I'm going to go ahead, but I'm not really watching over here, I'm watching over here.
Now we're moving the design, and I'm moving the needle to come down to the bottom stitch
of the already stitched heart.
Tip that needle down.
I'm a little low, just by a stitch or two, so I'm going to come up just a hair.
There we go.
Good.
Now, again I'm going to zoom out just a little bit so you can kind of see.
I don't really want the design to be coming up and over my already stitched area.
Now I actually want to rotate it.
Step #3.
Here's that red box.
I actually want to rotate it about right where that other one was.
It doesn't have to be too exact, because all I'm going to do is kind of flip it.
Step #4.
Now we're going to pivot on that area until I kind of like what I see.
I'm going to kind of make that design kind of come out to this side, but I really have
a position area where I want that to stitch.
I'm going to just go ahead and stitch this.
I don't know what I'm going to get, but I'm kind of liking what I'm seeing.
The design has a place where we're going to start, and now we're ready to go.
And ...
We created our very own design.
We put 2 designs together.
The heart was 1st, and then we just kind of twisted the new design into position and kind
of hooked them together.
Once again, we kind of featured that.
Like if you had already taken something out of the hoop, or if you did it accidentally
or on purpose, but you can always come back in and reset it and align designs back up.
Practice using the design positioning.
It's a fabulous tool.
I am fearless in hooping now, because I know if I just put it in there I can go ahead and
get anything that I want realigned to something else, all of the time, perfectly.