Floriani FTCU Practice Lesson 5 – Skill Level: Beginner Digitizing skills that are practiced in this lesson : Applique stitch tool Blanket stitch Steil satin stitches Classic satin stitches Advanced Editing Copy and pasting segments Text on a path If you would like a PDF written copy of this tutorial, click on the link […]
Floriani FTCU Digitizing Practice Lesson 4 – Fill Stitch
Fill Stitches are basic to embroidery and practicing to be able to confidently digitize them is essential. This lesson will focus on repeated steps for tracing the fill stitch, adjusting the stitch angles and correcting the overlapping segments. The last segment will show how to create a “hole” around the star so there is no […]
Floriani FTCU Digitizing Practice Lesson 3 – text
Floriani FTCU Practice Lesson 3 – Skill Level: Beginner Digitizing skills that are practiced in this lesson : Text tool Adjusting text size and placement Sorting thread colors – Floriani FTCU Color Sort tool This practice lesson will be using this image. You will not need to download the image. Just refer to it during […]
FTCU Digitizing Practice Lesson 2
Floriani FTCU Practice Lesson 2 – Skill Level: Beginner Digitizing skills that are practiced in this lesson : fill stitch run stitches (travel stitches) creating an artwork circle and converting to a fill stitch Here is a short video showing this steps for this practice lesson: If you would like a PDF written copy of […]
FTCU Digitizing Practice Lesson 1 – Run stitches
The best way to build your digitizing skills and build your confidence is to PRACTICE digitizing! Obviously! Just like anything else that you want to learn….practice is necessary! So, this tutorial is the first of a series of “practice” lessons. Most of these will be very simple lessons to help build your skills and […]
How to create Stippling for a Quilt Block
A few years ago, I fell in love with piecing and sewing quilts. And, before long, I had many quilt tops sewn together, but none ever finished into a quilt. I am such a “do it yourself” kind of person and I was determined that someday I would figure out how I was going to […]
Creating a Digitizing Plan
Do you ever see an image that you would like to digitize, and then stare at it and think….where do I begin? This tutorial will give you that answer! Before I start digitizing any design, I always think about how I want the design to sew out. If you write down that order, then you […]
Digitizing Basic Text in Floriani FTCU
Skill Level: Beginner Digitizing skills in this tutorial: using the basic Text Tool review of the font properties box font types editing, resizing the text how to use the text selection tools on the workspace There are several ways to digitize text using Floriani FTCU. The FTCU software program has a text tool that has […]
How to cut Applique shapes using SVG files and Silhouette
This tutorial is the second in a two part series of creating SVG files for appliques and tracing the files in the Silhouette Designer Edition software. You can find the first part: Creating SVG files in Floriani FTCU here. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience – which means if you make a […]
How to create SVG files in Floriani FTCU
I love digitizing and stitching Appliques! There is so much you can do with fabric to create awesome shirts, pillows, wall hangings, quilts and lots of other items. Note: This tutorial contains some affiliate links. You don’t pay any additional fee for purchasing through these links, but it helps me keep my business running. Thank […]
