TBT Thursday

Welcome to TBT Thursday!  This post is designed to 'bring back' a few of the lessons that I posted before I had my blog fiasco!

Since snowflakes seem to be the 'theme' this week, I found another excellent quick project on www.noodle-head.com  The snowflake is a felt cut out with a raw edge appliqué stitch.

In her tutorial, she attaches a Snowflake template jpg file of the snowflake for you to download.  This design did not trace very neatly so I went back to my colorful snowflakes and selected snowflake 4.

After tracing the design you will have to trim out the center before you delete the white background or it will fill in it as solid.

Create a cutwork and appliqué snowflake following the video from yesterday's lesson here.

Here is the example of the Cutwork snowflake 4.  Remember to select your largest hoop with foot #44C.

I then created a 'raw edge appliqué file' by first duplicating the cutwork design and then I changed it to a different color and selected a running stitch. That stitch out is going to be your placement stitch.  Be sure to change your hoop to #26.

I then added a second running stitch and changed the color and set the offset to the inside of -1.0.

Move the placement stitch tile to the first position (drag the frame to the bottom) so you can place your snowflake cut-out in the correct position.

Now I have never cut out felt with my cutwork tool so I haven't any suggestions. Perhaps someone who has can comment below.   This idea right now is in theory only, anyone want to give it a try?

TB Thursday

Welcome to Throwback Thursday!

One of my extensive lessons on this blog was how to use WELD and TRIM. Earlier this week I demonstrated how to use the TRIM function.  You can find the post here

Here is a quick tutorial to show you how to create "mouse ears"!  Draw 3 circles with the Shapes tool.

Hold the CRTL key down and draw a 2.5" circle. Add a black FILL and black Outline.

Duplicate the circle but change the size to 1.5". Duplicate the circle again. These two circles are the 'ears'!

Select All > Weld

 I changed the Height to 4.5 ( be sure proportional is checked)and rotated the hoop 90 degrees.

To create the "mouse hat" I drew an oval. Select the circle shapes tool and just drag you mouse to the right.  The size of the oval is approximately 2.5 wide. Position it over the hat until you see the shape you like in the Sequence Manager box.

Then Select All>Trim  Drag off the  oval and Delete it.

Now I can create a design for my grand daughter's T- shirt!  It will be a few years before she actually will go to DisneyWorld.....

Select the Cutwork tool in the Object Properties box.  Check Running Before and change it to 1.0 mm

Save your file as Mouse_CUT and send it to your USB stick.

Now select Appliqué in the Fill properties.  Select Satin Serial in the Outline properties. and change the Offset to -0.3 and the Outline in Tool Options 

to .11 

Now Save as Mouse_APP and send it to your USB stick.

I added her name using the Walt-o-graph font found on www.dafont.com

I hope you have enjoyed this TBT!

 

TB Thursday is brand new!

Well, not really!  I had to delete the previous blog due to a 'nice' person hijacking my blog...urg!  So in order to re-post all of my previous blog posts and lessons, I have created "Throwback Thursdays"!

Since my last post included a homework assignment to learn the DW icons, I thought today's post should be the shortcuts for some of those icons!

These shortcuts or Hot Key really saves me time when I want to open multiple documents and and work on several at the same time.

Out of this group, I use Crtl+A the most!  But my favorite is to hit the space bar as my default selection tool choice!

I will often use these Hot Keys when designing because it saves me a few seconds!  I know it sounds silly, but it does work!

These are definitely my "go-to" short cuts as I have been using a few of them for years!