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Futura Seminar Lesson Plan for 1 day class
Please arrive at 8:30am and be step up by seminar start
time of 9:00am
9:00am till 5pm with 1 hour lunch
Introductions and experience level and programs you have
Computer experience
Set –Up – 1 hour
Show chromium needles and 15J bobbin and bobbin thread and
pre wound bobbin ideas
Talk about tension
Threads and caps – embroidery and sewing
Bobbins and needles – bobbin thread and bobbin type
Parts, threading and bobbin winding
Set up for embroidery
Stabilizers for sewing and embroidery
Parts of the machine
Creating a folder to save designs in
Basic Embroidery -1 hour
Putting on the embroidery foot first and then attach the
embroidery unit
How to hook up the machine and treat the software
Why is it beeping? Threading, needle up and center needle
position
Apply a fuse and tear stabilizer for sew out
The hoops and putting the hoop on the machine
Tool bar
Browser
Library- built-in Futura designs plus CD design library
Open a design for the right hoop- small to large hoop
Formats
Looking at the design and size and stitch count –use the
built-in designs
Bring in more than one design- from the library, CD
Selecting and changing the size and rotate and mirror
Eliminate a section
See the realistic view
Size
Changing density
Changing the color
See the order of colors
Open the wreath design from provided CD and form a
monogram, change color
Create Lettering Designs -
1 hour
Change size, shape, individual letters and editing
Form a name in the built in lettering to “save as”.
Use true type fonts
Create a true type font monogram and size in the wreath
Markers – blue and chalk and rulers
Using a print out, mark the fabric for placement
Show hooping the fabric correctly
Sew out the monogram by sending design -1
hour (lunch)
Load a built in multiple color design. Show how to skip a
color, go back and forward in a
design.
Stop and backup and go forward
Close out of a design
Finding embroidery on the internet
How to install embroidery designs
Your artwork -30min
File types like jpg, wmf, bmp and what the Futura will
read
Use the new draw package
Scanning in Black and White
Paint and editing color
Breaking out the lines
Adding width to lines
Eraser
Auto punch digitizing – 1 hour
Open an image and use the default
Try the image again and again using different settings on
color and satin stitch width
adjustment
Try different graphic styles
Eliminate digitized areas with select
Change thread colors
Save as – break to shop for 15minutes
Edting features 30 min
Selecting and move or delete
Show the new edit option features
Move a stitch
Add an outline
Change the texture
Make a lace design
Photo Stitch-demo 15min
Picking your photo- close ups work best, contrast
Crop the photo using the circle, rectangle and polygon
Check the size in inches
Pick the contrast
Pick the satin or rectangle fill
Adjust the colors
Show the updated feature of running stitches
Cross Stitch demo 15min
Pick a photo or a clip art and check the size
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