Stitchers, the landscape of quilting is constantly changing! Technologies emerge, artistic traditions evolve, and your designs are the living proof! This class teaches everything you need to digitize beautiful, original artwork for multiple machine formats in Pro-Stitcher Designer. In this twelve hour seminar, we’ll begin the journey with a quick rundown of PSD’s user interface, tools, updates, and available online resources.Once we’re grounded, we’ll leap right in to using the Draw and Edit tools to create designs from scratch, and save them for use at your machine!  In addition to original work, you’ll learn to draw and design from inspiration– importing motifs from outside sources, (or your own work for modification), and directly from life, using the Auto-Digitizing and Magic Wand features! You’ll practice with PSD’s many tools, and learn how and when to apply each one– discovering how to Repeat, Reflect, and Carousel your designs, Split, Connect, Trim, Weld, and Intersect them, and even use the Echo and Rays tools!  I will teach you how to create motifs, continuous line designs, and cropped artworks, that fit perfectly in even the irregular areas of your quilts.  You’ll learn how to easily migrate your designs to Pro-Stitcher Premium for stitching, and […]

Quilters, the possibilities of design are limitless and vivid as your imagination! Join me, as we learn to create beautiful, timeless designs exportable to multiple machine formats in Pro-Stitcher Designer. Some students learn best in a large group, with many different viewpoints and ideas being exchanged– but for our blossoming artists who are at their ease in an intimate setting, I’ve created this more personal approach to teaching Pro-Stitcher Designer. Join eleven of your peers as you expand your creative arsenal in this two-day class, learning to produce original artwork using PSD’s suite of tools!You’ll begin the journey with a quick rundown of PSD’s user interface, tools, updates, and available online resources.  Once we’re grounded, we’ll leap right in to using the Draw and Edit tools to create designs from scratch, and save them for use at your machine!  In addition to original work, you’ll learn to draw and design from inspiration– importing motifs from outside sources, (or your own work for modification), and directly from life, using the Auto-Digitizing and Magic Wand features! You’ll practice with PSD’s many tools, and learn how and when to apply each one– discovering how to Repeat, Reflect, and Carousel your designs, Split, Connect, […]

Quilters, how often do you excitedly load a quilt only to stand before the machine sifting through digital designs looking for inspiration?  What about stitching one pattern here and another there, to discover that those designs don’t work well together?  I can help you solve those problems, and more! When I say “Picture perfect quilts every time!”, I mean it!  This September 2, join me for a fun and productive  approach to creating quilt layouts using Pro-Stitcher Designer!  In this half-day course, I’ll teach you all the skills needed to audition quilting designs over photographs of your quilt-tops, giving you greater confidence than ever when it’s time to stitch! Following a brief refresher of PSD’s Edit Tools, you’ll learn to acquire photos of your quilts, and to import them to PSD for use as backdrops.  Then, I’ll show you how to create an entire series of quilting designs all from one pattern using the Draw and Edit tools!    Seeing an illustration of your finished quilt on the computer screen, right down to the thread color, will make your quilt-confidence soar, and that stack of unfinished quilt tops will quickly disappear. Quilting and photography could hardly be more different, but they do […]