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    Embroidery Business From Home: Business Model and Digitizing Training Course (Volume 2)
    Embroidery Business From Home: Business Model and Digitizing Training Course (Volume 2)
    Embroidery Business From Home: Business Model and Digitizing Training Course (Volume 2)
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    Embroidery Business From Home: Business Model and Digitizing Training Course (Volume 2)

    By Martin Barnes

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    The second Volume of the “Embroidery Business from Home” course, is designed to train you in digitizing embroidery designs, and help you calculate cost of embroideries in detail, in order to set end user prices. You will first learn about basic digitizing like running and satin stitch, underlay, density andmany other terms which are the basics in creating your first embroidery design and edit it whenever you need to. You will also learn about the 12 steps to follow in order to create an embroidery design.

    You will also learn how to create your own letters and monograms for embroidery machines. As analysed in the first volume of this course, monogramming is one of the most profitable and easy to do parts of embroidery, so many embroiderers only do monogramming. This book teaches how to do letters along many other embroidery types, in order to be able to satisfy every customer’s needs. Martin goes even deeper to advanced embroidery techniques only top level digitizers know how to use. Techniques that help reduce digitizing time and produce top quality designs, smart ways to use the embroidery software functions, in order to produce products that will amaze the customers. Color blending, embroidery with sequins and motifs are only some of the techniques presented in this book, and will help you create and expand a modern embroidery business from home.

    Martin uses more than 50 images, tables, charts and pictures in order to help you fully understand the training. He has created and included many screen captures of the various functions explained in this book, so you will have the chance to see how an embroidery software works before you even buy one! Apart from that, you will be able to understand how the embroidery machine embroiders specific designs, by video simulating them in the training videos available.

    Other readings for a complete knowledge

    In "Embroidery Business from Home" Volume 1, Martin analyses the business part of an embroidery business from home. A pack of 10 HD videos that make approximately 3.5 hours of digitizing training is also available, in case you are interested in expanding your knowledge beyond this book. You will find all appropriate information inside the book.

    Who is Martin Barnes

    Martin Barnes is an embroidery specialist and internet marketeer, with more than 10 years of experience in major embroidery related companies. He is also the author of the "Embroidery Business from Home" course, that has helped many people start their own embroidery business from home.

    Free Embroidery Designs

    By buying this book, you are automatically eligible for 5 high quality embroidery designs absolutely free. You will find instructions on how to claim the designs inside the book. The estimated price of those 5 designs equals the price of the book itself, so don't think twice!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXpress Epublishing
    Release dateJun 26, 2017
    ISBN9781370488391
    Embroidery Business From Home: Business Model and Digitizing Training Course (Volume 2)
    Author

    Martin Barnes

    Martin Barnes is an embroidery specialist and internet marketer, with more than 10 years of experience in major embroidery related companies. He is also the author of the "Embroidery Business from Home" course, which has helped many people start their own embroidery business from home. He is the founder and owner of EmbroideryHomeBusiness.com and is also running an online embroidery business from home himself. His course includes 2 e-books, 10 training videos and 40 embroidery designs which you can find in various bookstores around the world, and in his website EmbroideryHomeBusiness.com.

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      Embroidery Business From Home - Martin Barnes

      EMBROIDERY BUSINESS FROM HOME

      Business model and digitizing training course

      by Martin Barnes

      Volume 2: Digitizing Training

      Copyright © 2017 Martin Barnes (www.embroideryhomebusiness.com)

      All rights reserved.

      Published by Martin Barnes at Smashwords

      This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher and the author are not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional advice. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Chapter 5 – Basic digitizing

      The three basic stitch types

      Running stitch

      Satin stitch

      Fill stitch

      Using underlay

      Changing Density

      Color changes

      Repeat and flip functions

      Centering the design

      Magic wand and automatic digitizing

      Sending the design to the machine

      How to digitize – steps to follow

      How to calculate cost and selling price

      Chapter 6 – Lettering and Editing

      Simple lettering

      Choosing font

      Changing Frames

      Monogramming

      Name drop

      Editing

      Chapter 7 – Advanced digitizing techniques

      Other stitch types

      Cross stitch

      Appliqué

      Variable angles

      Stitch types cost comparison

      Entry exit points and stitch angle

      Resizing and stitch processor

      Stitch repeat

      Step length

      Auto outline

      Connecting the stitch blocks

      Tie

      Changing stitch code

      Push and pull compensation

      Inserting holes

      Color blending

      Digitizing for sequins

      Motifs

      How to get the Free Embroidery Designs

      About the Author

      Connect with Martin

      In this chapter I will teach you all the basic things you need to know in order to start digitizing. This is a complete analysis covering all basic things a digitizer needs to know as far as the digitizing process is concerned, plus secrets on how to calculate cost and selling price of embroideries. You will learn how digitizers and embroiderers charge their customers, and the secret they don’t want you to know about how they price digitizing. It is important for you to know that possibly the majority of digitizers out there know much less than you will learn in this chapter alone. If you add the knowledge that you will get from Chapters 6 (Lettering), 8 (Advanced digitizing techniques) and the training videos of this course, then you will outrun most of your competition. The number of ignorant digitizers out there will amaze you when you enter the business. If you correctly apply marketing techniques and the knowledge you will get from the next 5 Chapters, then you will surely make a fortune out of embroidery. So, let’s make you a top class embroidery digitizer now.

      There are many stitch types in embroidery, but three of them are the basic ones: Running stitch, Satin stitch and Fill stitch. You will use one or more of these stitch types in more than 95% of your work, so you’d better get used to working with them. In order to help you understand the difference of those three stitch types, I will present the same design digitized using all three of them, and also provide zoomed view for better explanation.

      The running stitch is the basic stitch type in hand-sewing and embroidery, on which all other forms of sewing are based. The stitch is worked by passing the needle in and out of the fabric. Running stitches may be of varying length, but as a rule more thread is visible on the top of the embroidery than on the underside. It can be used to create complete embroidery designs, but usually it is just being used as part of a design, for example as an outline, or on top of fill stitch in order to tone the shadows of the image.

      In image 2 you can see a design entirely made of running stitch:

      Image 2 – Running stitch mouse

      What is basically being done when you digitize a design with running stitch, is that the needle brings down the thread and embroiders the outline of the design, the way you have digitized it in your embroidery software. It is the simplest, quickest and most inexpensive stitch type, since it uses the least amount of thread, the design is being embroidered in minimum amount of time, which means less electrical power and less working hours for embroidering, plus the digitizing is easier than other stitch types, which also means less working hours for digitizing. Let’s see up close how the machine embroiders this design:

      Image 3 – Close view of running stitch embroidery

      What you actually see in image 3 is a close look of the mouse’s ears, as the small image on the right indicates. The little dots are the stitching points, which means the machine will hit the fabric on these points, penetrate it, and then go out in order to do the same on the next point. This repeated movement results in running stitch type. The distance from one stitch to the next is called step length and can be adjusted using the embroidery software.

      The dash lines in my design suggest jump stitches. A jump stitch occurs when there are areas of a design that are of the same color, but separated from each other. In that case the machine goes from one place to the other without penetrating the fabric and without cutting the thread, thus it jumps from the last stitch of the already embroidered block (a design is consisted of a number of blocks which the digitizer creates) to the first stitch of the next block, and that is why it is called jump stitch. We will see jump stitches more analytically in sub-chapter connecting the stitch blocks of Chapter 7 – Advanced digitizing techniques.

      Satin stitch is an embroidery stitch type worked in parallel lines so closely and evenly as to resemble satin. What the machine does is hit a stitch point, then hit a

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