heatstitch

heatstitch in videos

13 short videos, 34 minutes in all. Each shows one way through the app and stands on its own. They are spoken in German, with English subtitles. The files from the videos can be downloaded in the player, to follow along.

Getting started

Where everything is, in three minutes. The other videos do not depend on it.

  • Part 0 The heatstitch interface

    You know where everything is: header, tools, colors and objects, stage, cards and player.

    To follow along: cat-60mm.pes

Make your own

From an empty hoop, from lettering or from a picture to a design of your own.

  • 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 5 Objects and sequence

    You put objects in the right order, knock out overlaps, and duplicate and mirror them.

    To follow along: kirschen.svg

View and improve an embroidery file

Open a finished file, check it, fix it and save it for your machine.

  • 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

Fine-tuning

Fills, satin, lines, shapes and single stitches, exactly the way you want them.

  • 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 and thin out single stitches.

    To follow along: cat-60mm.pes

Rather read? The guide explains everything step by step.

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