New Floriani FTCU Digitizing Practice! Here’s some bright summer flowers for you to practice tracing this week.
Fill out the form at the end of this lesson and the image and a PDF guide will be sent to your email inbox.
Download the image from your email and use your creativity to trace and digitize the image, however you would like.
The PDF guide will include a numbered digitizing plan and suggestions and tips for tracing the image.
Create A Digitizing Plan
Decide which shapes to trace first – look at the image and think of it as layers. Trace the layers in back first. Trace the shapes that should stitch first and leave the details for last.
Digitizing suggestions
The following notes are a few suggestions to help you follow a digitizing plan for this image.
These notes include the order in which I suggest you trace the shapes and the stitch tools that would be the most appropriate for the that shape.
Of course, I encourage you to use your creativity and use whatever stitch and thread colors that you would prefer! That is the benefit of digitizing our own designs. No two will ever be the same!
Digitizing Plan:
Here is a suggested digitizing plan for you to follow:
Yellow Flower
- trace the flower shapes using the Fill stitch tool
- tip: divide the shapes into multiple fill stitch shapes to be able to have more angle lines to create textures
- edit the shapes and angle lines as needed
Blue Flower
- trace the flower shapes using the Fill stitch tool
- tip: divide the shapes into multiple fill stitch shapes to be able to have more angle lines to create textures
- edit the shapes and angle lines as needed
Bright Pink Flower
- trace the flower shapes using the Fill stitch tool
- tip: divide the shapes into multiple fill stitch shapes to be able to have more angle lines to create textures
- edit the shapes and angle lines as needed
Flower centers – stamens
- trace the flower stamens using the Satin stitch tool
- tip: trace the stamens in multiple segments to be able to have more control over the shape
- edit the shapes and angle lines as needed
Digitizing Steps
Follow these 4 digitizing steps for each shape, as a guide, to get you started.
Need help?
Here are two ways to get the help you need to digitize your own designs.
- Have a digitizing question?
Join the Embroidery Gatherings Facebook group and ask your questions, anytime.
- To receive lots of extra TLC with FTCU digitizing….
You can get digitizing help by joining our Embroidery Gatherings Membership Club. There are over 75 step-by-step written lessons and videos to help you learn to digitize your own embroidery designs using the FTCU software. We can also create a personalized “journey” for you to learn to digitize!
Click HERE to find out more information.
Share your design!
After you have finished, you are welcome to share your design image with our Embroidery Gatherings Facebook group. We would love to see your creativity!
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