E2E Basics for ProStitcher Beginners
Тәжірибелік нұсқаулар және стиль
This video speaks to the people who are brand new to longarm quilting, recently purchased a ProStitcher for digitized stitching, and need help understanding how to prepare an edge-to-edge design (pantograph), and take it to the longarm to stitch out a quilt.
Although a pantograph is acually the paper design that one uses from the back of quilts, please note that a great many of us still refer to the digital full quilt layout for an e2e as a pantograph. It's probably not the best term, but it is so often used, that the familiarity of the term is to be noted.
The first half of the video shows and verbally explains how to set up everything on your computer in the simulation mode of prostitcher so you can save it onto a flash drive and take it prepared to the tablet on the longarm. Occasionally, I do the prep work on the tablet, but since I do not save my designs on the tablet (a good tip so your tablet doesn't get full), I often do some prep work on the computer.
Next, I show basting a quilt, and most importantly, I give direction for advancing the quilt and placing each subsequent row perfectly. I explain two methods: Placing a pin to mark the start point is one method, but it cannot be your only knowledge for repositioning. You must know drag and drop. Occasionally, our throat space isn't deep enough to reposition on the start point of the next row. Also, we sometimes advance the quilt and then realize we did not mark our next reposition point before advancing.
Finally, I explain how to crop your last row to fit perfectly on your quilt.
I am a longarm quilter doing computerized e2e, custom computerized, and free motion and ruler work. I do it all and have been doing it professionally for six years.
I charge 2 cents a square inch for e2e, and custom work starts at 3 cents and goes to 5 cents a square inch.
I also do professional machine embroidery, sublimation, and DTF. I am a certified educator and bring that education degree and skills to quilting by offering classes from my home studio or am available to teach at quilt shops. Teaching is my favorite. That's why I make videos for KZread. I love to help others succeed.
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www.pettyjohnquilting.com/
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Thanks for watching. I hope your E2Es are going smoothly.
Great tips, I have had issues in the past. I will give your method a try.
Thank you so much. Every time I watch your videos I learn something new. I had 90 minutes of training on my pro stitcher. There are so many things I’m sure the tutor showed me, but I didn’t get the info stored in my long term memory. Now I can save your videos and watch them over and over.
@JuliePettyjohn
11 ай бұрын
I am so glad they help. When I started, I was overwhelmed. Even if you have the very best training, there are too many things to remember from one or two training sessions. I had to take one thing at a time and not worry about all the other things I wondered about. Quilting can be such a fun process.
This was great ! The cropping was so easy ! You can see a design on your shirt reflecting from the monitor and my granddaughter spotted it . And asked me if you knew you had a ghost ! Now I can not unsee it ! lol
@JuliePettyjohn
10 ай бұрын
That’s funny. I try to keep myself and my ghost out of the picture as much as possible.
A good video. I never could figure out how to crop the bottom. Now I know! the rest was hard to follow with the camera movement but I did get a lot from your video. thanks!
@JuliePettyjohn
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for the comments. I appreciate the good and the helpful critiques. I will try to figure out a better solution for future. I do understand and agree that the camera movements were bothersome.
@lyndabuchholz1216
11 ай бұрын
@@JuliePettyjohn Well I sure couldn't do what you are doing! It is a wonderful service!
Thanks Julie for the great video. I always use the drag/drop method - like you do, and it seems to always work for me. I've never tried the method where you put a pin on the side of the quilt. At first I would do the HQ method of drag/drop with the needle in the quilt, but I have made many errors doing it that way. Like others, I've made mistakes with cropping the bottom of a quilt, but I'll put your method on paper, and make sure I follow the steps.
@JuliePettyjohn
5 ай бұрын
I am so glad to hear from you.
On cropping the last row on my last quilt the row above dips down into my area that is being cropped and my machine wants to quilt that part that dips down even though my start point was at the new row. I couldnt get rid of it and ended up stitching the whole design on last row to get it right. Has anyone had this issue?
@JuliePettyjohn
4 ай бұрын
That is why it is important to first: Crop between start and stop. When you do that, you delete out that previous row that dips down and are only left with what you need. Always crop between start and stop. THEN, draw your area box and crop outside area box, closing ends.
What machine and throat space do you have?
@JuliePettyjohn
7 ай бұрын
I have a Handi Quilter Amara 20". It is the 20 inch, but of course that's not how much throat space I have. I think 15-16. I never do designs taller than 14"; that's my safe zone.