New Floriani FTCU Digitizing Practice!
This is a mini lesson to encourage you to practice FTCU each week. For more detailed lessons, join the Embroidery Gatherings Membership Club. Click HERE for more info!
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:
1 – Thanksgiving text
- use the Text tool to create the text
- choose a font and thread color that you prefer
- adjust the size to fit the location
2 – gather text
- use the Text tool to create the text
- choose a font and thread color that you prefer
- adjust the size to fit the location
2 – brown leaf
- use the Fill stitch tool to trace the Leaf shape
- edit the shape as needed
- TIP: you can do this one of two ways – (1) trace the entire brown leaf and then trace the white veins separately using the steil stitch or (2) use the Fill stitch and trace small segments around the white veins – leaving those areas open
3 – family text
- use the Text tool to create the text
- choose a font and thread color that you prefer
- adjust the size to fit the location
3 – leaf
- use the Satin tool to trace the Leaf shapes
- edit the shape as needed
3 – scroll
- use the Satin tool to trace ONE Scroll shape
- edit the shape as needed
- copy and paste to create the second scroll
- adjust the location as needed
4 – Thankful text
- use the Text tool to create the text
- choose a font and thread color that you prefer
- adjust the size to fit the location
5 – green leaf
- use the Steil stitch tool to trace the leaf
- edit the steil width in the properties box to a narrow width
- adjust the size to fit the location
6 – Blessed text
- use the Text tool to create the text
- choose a font and thread color that you prefer
- adjust the size to fit the location
6 – Blessings text
- use the Text tool to create the text
- choose a font and thread color that you prefer
- adjust the size to fit the location
7 – Gold leaf
- use the Steil stitch tool to trace the leaf
- edit the steil width in the properties box to a narrow width
- adjust the size to fit the location
- OR copy the GREEN leaf from above and move to this location
- change the thread color to match the gold letters
8 – together text
- use the Text tool to create the text
- choose a font and thread color that you prefer
- adjust the size to fit the location
9 – grateful text
- use the Text tool to create the text
- choose a font and thread color that you prefer
- adjust the size to fit the location
- TIP: trace the ligature in front of the g as a separate segment to add more interest to the text (use the Classic satin stitch tool to vary the width as needed)
Digitizing Steps
Follow these 4 digitizing steps for each shape, as a guide, to get you started.
Need help?
This lesson is a “mini lesson” to encourage you to practice FTCU each week. For more detailed lessons, join the Embroidery Gatherings Membership Club.
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.
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Join the Embroidery Gatherings Membership Club. There are over 75 written lessons and videos to help you learn to digitize your own embroidery designs using the FTCU software. The lessons inside the membership club are more detailed step-by-step instructions to help you use all the tools in FTCU.
And, there are 3 learning levels to choose from: Independent, Guided and Coaching.
To receive lots of extra TLC with FTCU digitizing….
You can get one-to-one digitizing help by joining the Coaching level of Embroidery Gatherings Membership Club.
We can 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!
Fill out the email form below and a PDF copy of this digitizing practice and the image, will be emailed to you!