Pictures to Stitches: A guide to digitizing basics with Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro
Do you own Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro? Do you want to learn how to use it? Then professional software trainer and courseware developer Eve Gordon wrote this book for you.
You’ll start with the basics of the Floriani software like learning the elements in your workspace, basic stitches for digitizing, and stitch density. You'll also learn how to add dimension to your designs, what you need to consider when resizing a design, and when to use which type of stitch. This edition covers features added in version 4.37, including using Design Library, creating borders for shapes, and adding embossing lines to your satin and complex fill stitches.
Printed in color, Pictures to Stitches offers not only a table of contents and more than 700 pictures showing the steps in exercises, but also an index to help you find the information you want when you need it. 267 pages.
You’ll start with the basics of the Floriani software like learning the elements in your workspace, basic stitches for digitizing, and stitch density. You'll also learn how to add dimension to your designs, what you need to consider when resizing a design, and when to use which type of stitch. This edition covers features added in version 4.37, including using Design Library, creating borders for shapes, and adding embossing lines to your satin and complex fill stitches.
Printed in color, Pictures to Stitches offers not only a table of contents and more than 700 pictures showing the steps in exercises, but also an index to help you find the information you want when you need it. 267 pages.
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About the Author
Eve Gordon jumped into the computer pond more than 25 years
ago as a computer terminal operator at Cornell University. She went on to
document and supervise computer terminal operations and became the campus
expert on Waterloo Script®, a pre-cursor to word processor software, created at
the University of Waterloo.
Her preparation for thinking on her feet while remaining friendly and courteous was taken to a new level during her time as a temporary worker. Eve was the person that agencies sent to companies that wanted someone with computer experience who could use Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, or, more often than not, figure out the company’s internal system.
After realizing that her computer ability was really a career, Eve went on to testing and documenting software, developing courseware, and creating automated solutions for clients. In addition, she began providing technical training in a classroom setting as a consultant. Her clients have included Microsoft Corporation, Attachmate Corporation, Ann Taylor, Chubb Advanced Training, Productivity Point International, and Viacom International. This was groundwork in listening to her client needs and demands in order to deliver practical, understandable answers and solutions.
In what started as a career shift in 2001, Eve returned to school and earned a BFA in Fashion Design. Soon, however, her computer background merged with her new path and in 2003, Eve began digitizing for machine embroidery using Pfaff software. Working as an embroidery specialist, she used PE-Design to create machine embroidery designs. Then, in 2009, she started DreamCatchers Northwest LLC with two partners and has been digitizing with Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro ever since.
Continuing to enjoy training others, she started teaching Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro classes at Issaquah Sewing and Vacuum in 2009 and began developing a series of books and training materials to reach those she couldn’t travel to meet.
Eve on Eve: I don’t think of myself as an expert. The thing that makes me effective is remembering what it was like to not know; and I live for the moment when someone says, “Oh, that’s how you do that.” Students think I’m the most patient person they’ve ever met, but it’s really about wanting to successfully communicate ideas to others; expecting someone to understand instantaneously is counterproductive.
Eve on Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro: I love this software and think it’s the best digitizing bang for your buck, especially when you consider that updates are included in the purchase price. Other packages I’ve used charge for updates. All the features are included in one user interface so there’s no opening multiple software programs to create and edit parts of your design. Also, as someone who also uses drawing packages, I find working with curves especially easy in the Floriani software. I’m no longer dealing with a gazillion points to create the curve I want. Thanks to these differences with other products and the feature-rich environment, I’ve become more creative and efficient in digitizing.
Eve on Pictures to Stitches: If you own Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro and you don’t know how to use it, this is the book for you. This is the first in a series of books that are planned for release later in 2011, and it focuses on the basics of using the Floriani software. You can piggy back on my experience and avoid some of the guesswork that comes with learning the Floriani software. Let me help you capitalize the investment you’ve already made in the Floriani software with Pictures to Stitches.
When she isn’t working on her current digitizing book or teaching Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro, Eve designs and constructs clothing, reads, digitizes for DreamCatchers Northwest LLC, and writes fiction.
Her preparation for thinking on her feet while remaining friendly and courteous was taken to a new level during her time as a temporary worker. Eve was the person that agencies sent to companies that wanted someone with computer experience who could use Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, or, more often than not, figure out the company’s internal system.
After realizing that her computer ability was really a career, Eve went on to testing and documenting software, developing courseware, and creating automated solutions for clients. In addition, she began providing technical training in a classroom setting as a consultant. Her clients have included Microsoft Corporation, Attachmate Corporation, Ann Taylor, Chubb Advanced Training, Productivity Point International, and Viacom International. This was groundwork in listening to her client needs and demands in order to deliver practical, understandable answers and solutions.
In what started as a career shift in 2001, Eve returned to school and earned a BFA in Fashion Design. Soon, however, her computer background merged with her new path and in 2003, Eve began digitizing for machine embroidery using Pfaff software. Working as an embroidery specialist, she used PE-Design to create machine embroidery designs. Then, in 2009, she started DreamCatchers Northwest LLC with two partners and has been digitizing with Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro ever since.
Continuing to enjoy training others, she started teaching Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro classes at Issaquah Sewing and Vacuum in 2009 and began developing a series of books and training materials to reach those she couldn’t travel to meet.
Eve on Eve: I don’t think of myself as an expert. The thing that makes me effective is remembering what it was like to not know; and I live for the moment when someone says, “Oh, that’s how you do that.” Students think I’m the most patient person they’ve ever met, but it’s really about wanting to successfully communicate ideas to others; expecting someone to understand instantaneously is counterproductive.
Eve on Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro: I love this software and think it’s the best digitizing bang for your buck, especially when you consider that updates are included in the purchase price. Other packages I’ve used charge for updates. All the features are included in one user interface so there’s no opening multiple software programs to create and edit parts of your design. Also, as someone who also uses drawing packages, I find working with curves especially easy in the Floriani software. I’m no longer dealing with a gazillion points to create the curve I want. Thanks to these differences with other products and the feature-rich environment, I’ve become more creative and efficient in digitizing.
Eve on Pictures to Stitches: If you own Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro and you don’t know how to use it, this is the book for you. This is the first in a series of books that are planned for release later in 2011, and it focuses on the basics of using the Floriani software. You can piggy back on my experience and avoid some of the guesswork that comes with learning the Floriani software. Let me help you capitalize the investment you’ve already made in the Floriani software with Pictures to Stitches.
When she isn’t working on her current digitizing book or teaching Floriani Embroidery Suite Pro, Eve designs and constructs clothing, reads, digitizes for DreamCatchers Northwest LLC, and writes fiction.
