Master the Machine
Curriculum
- 10 Sections
- 42 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- 01 - Getting Started8
- 1.1Instructor Introduction and Course Overview
- 1.2Choosing a beginner-friendly embroidery machine
- 1.3How to set up an embroidery machine
- 1.4Choosing your thread and bobbin for your embroidery machine
- 1.5Stabilizer – why you need it, what you need
- 1.6Embroidery Needles – choosing the right size and type
- 1.7Maintaining your embroidery machine
- 1.8Supplies needed for this course
- 02 - Understanding Embroidery Designs5
- 2.1Accessing and stitching out a built-in design embroidery design on your machine
- 2.2Using the lettering built into your machine
- 2.3Embroidery Design Basics: What you should know before stitching one out.
- 2.4Downloading and transferring embroidery designs to your embroidery machine
- 2.5Where to buy + find free embroidery designs
- 03 - Your first project: embroidering a fun hand towel4
- 3.1Choosing Stabilizer & Hooping vs Floating
- 3.2Aligning your project on the hoop to achieve perfect placement
- 3.3Techniques when stitching out a project – watch the machine, trim jump stitches, keeping material out of the way, cleaning up threads
- 3.4Patching your sticky back tear away stabilizer for efficiency and cost savings
- 04 - Your second project: monogramming a tote bag5
- 4.1Designing a monogram
- 4.2Setting up your monogram file – combining letters as embroidery designs
- 4.3Setting up your monogram file – using BX fonts
- 4.4Preparing to embroider on a totebag – choosing stabilizer, floating, positioning, pinning
- 4.5Embroidering on a tote bag – ensuring success and what to do when things go wrong (stopping, starting – using a bounding box)
- 05 - Your third project: stitching an appliqué design on a t-shirt5
- 06 - Troubleshooting machine embroidery problems3
- 07 - More advanced techniques6
- 7.1How to stitch out a basic in-the-hoop design (coasters)
- 7.2How to stitch out an in-the-hoop pouch with a zipper
- 7.3How to stitch out a free standing lace design
- 7.4How to stitch out a free standing appliqué design
- 7.5How to make a quilt block on your embroidery machine
- 7.6How to quilt using your embroidery machine
- 08 - Embroidery software3
- 09 - Future directions in machine embroidery2
- Embroidery Designs1
Starting an embroidery business
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