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Part 1 A new embroidery design

You make your first design of your own, a round patch with a wave, from the empty hoop to the PES file.

Part 2 Lettering

You set a name in an embroidery font, on an arc and in your thread color, and change it any time later.

Part 3 From a picture to a design

You turn a photo or a graphic into a design: pick the colors, tidy the areas, choose a style.

To follow along: fliegenpilz.jpg

Part 4 From SVG to a design

You turn an SVG into a design with clean satin outlines and lay out their sections anew in the Direction tool.

To follow along: katze-im-karton.svg

Part 5 Objects and sequence

You put objects in the right order, knock out overlaps, duplicate and mirror them, and give one object a thread of its own.

To follow along: kirschen.svg

Part 16 Combining and cutting shapes

You combine shapes, cut one shape out of another, lay a contour around them, and join or split paths.

Part 17 Tracing a logo

You lay a picture underneath as a template, measure it and trace it as a design: fill with direction, lines, lettering.

To follow along: vorlage.png, heatstitch-logo.heatstitch

Part 6 Opening a finished embroidery file

You open a finished embroidery file, choose the hoop and watch how the machine sews it.

To follow along: katze.pes

Part 7 Checking an embroidery file

Before the first stitch, you see whether a file works on your fabric and where it does not.

To follow along: patch.pes

Part 8 Fixing and comparing

You let spots that are too dense be fixed, compare with the original and undo the correction if you like.

To follow along: patch.pes

Part 9 Jumps and trims

You make sure long jumps are trimmed and shorten the travel with a better order.

To follow along: konfetti.pes

Part 10 Preview and saving

You see your design as if real on the fabric, get stabilizer and needle ready and save for your machine.

To follow along: aufnaeher-67.dst

Part 11 Fills

You set the pattern, border and hold of a fill, split it and steer its rows with guide lines.

To follow along: shapes-benchmark.svg

Part 12 Satin and lines

You turn a fill into shiny satin and give lines fringe, repeats, echo and shadow.

To follow along: abzeichen.svg

Part 13 Shape and single stitches

You change an object's shape at its nodes and add, move, extend and thin out single stitches.

To follow along: cat-60mm.pes

Part 14 Appliqué

You stitch an appliqué: placement line, lay the fabric on, tack-down, trim, edge.

To follow along: apfel.svg

Part 15 Hand stitches and redwork

You give lines the look of handwork: stem stitch, feather stitch, cretan stitch, chevron, redwork without jumps and bean stitch on top.

To follow along: blumenzweig.svg

Part 18 Thread, fabric and color list

You set a design to your thread brand and fabric, swap a single thread, tune the settings to the fabric and print the color list.

To follow along: cat-60mm.pes