Embroidery Software 101: Personalization and Customizing with Soni Grint

Personalization is something we all want to do with our embroidery designs, taking them from “stock designs” to more personal expressions for our own purposes. Embroidery software is how we make the changes. You’ll use software to achieve something as simple as adding a name or monogram to a T-shirt for a grandchild — maybe changing colors along the way and positioning it just so. And that’s where we’ll start: with a look at designs and how to use our software to make the first changes we all want to see.

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As Soni demonstrates her process for each topic and technique, you’ll become more confident using your software. Following her examples, you’ll see and easily adopt fail-proof routines and habits for all your design work, from the basics in this session to the most complex projects in Embroidery Software 302 and beyond.

You’ll discover easy ways to customize and personalize embroidery designs, including changing colors, rotating designs and adding letters to existing designs. You’ll learn names for various stitches and their functions, how they work together to create designs, and how you can make appropriate changes inside your software. Plus, you’ll see how software can help you place your design in just the right position on your project.

Along with step-by-step demonstrations, complete, easy to follow explanations and the advice only an experienced embroiderer and teacher can provide, you’ll explore wonderful examples of finished designs, where you’ll see clearly how simple changes can make a big difference in your finished embroidery projects.

All Start Anytime courses, are self-paced, and you can begin the moment you register, viewing the course anytime that is convenient for you. Many students watch it through one time first, and then go back to work alongside the instructor with their own project activities.

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1. What will you learn?

Throughout the course you’ll explore the various aspects of an embroidery design. By learning how Soni looks at designs she’s thinking about using, you’ll build your own process, too. The course allows you to become familiar with the anatomy of a design, and how it can influence the finished embroidery. In this first session, you’ll experience changes we seem to always need to make, to make the designs more “our own”. Learn to:

“Bring in” an embroidery design to begin the process;

Audition and change thread colors;

Become fluent in embroidery language and stitch functions;

Start to understand software terms;

Rotate, mirror image and move your designs
Change the size of a design and the differences between scaling and re-sizing, with guidelines for each;
Have fun with lettering styles, including how to choose the right font size and style for the fabric you are using;
Use monograms more effectively in all your projects, from bold and dramatic to delicate, heirloom-inspired projects;
Manage layout and overlap for better machine stitch outs;
Develop and use templates for easy and accurate design placement;
Use background images for exact design positioning;
Successfully stitch your adjusted embroidery out on the machine.

2. Who should attend? You'll love this course if you:

Are a beginning embroiderer, ready to learn about choosing and adapting designs for your projects;

Are an experienced embroiderer whose customizing and personalization results have been hit and miss – and you’d like to become successful on a regular basis;

Want to understand more about the language used to discuss various stitch functions within embroidery designs;

Are curious about using embroidery software and the functions software allows you to perform;

Would like to add letters (and words or phrases) to existing designs, and make decisions about how they’ll show up – maybe in a circle around the design, maybe straight across, maybe something else;

Want to know how a design will stitch out – before you even thread your machine!

Really want to understand why the above knowledge is important;

Want to make thread color changes, auditioning colors without stitching your design;

Nearly always need a design to stitch out larger or smaller than it really is;
Would love to discover a smooth, stress-free and successful process for using embroidery software;
Want to explore the benefits of templates and background images in software;
Want to get a handle on rotating, mirror imaging and placing designs;
Are ready to discover layout and overlap techniques, and how they can be used for more successful and interesting embroideries.

3. What software is needed for the course?

In her videos, Soni uses Premier Embroidery Software. Students should consult the software for their machine and do not need Premier Embroidery Software.

Soni Grint

Soni Grint has been sewing since she was 8 years old. Her embroidery career began when she combined her formal education (M.S. Optical Physics / Computers) and her love of fabric and sewing. She started working with a sewing machine dealership in San Diego, California before she moved to central California, where she worked a short time for White Sewing Machines.

The real break through came when she was asked to be a part of Viking Sewing Machines Product Council in Huskvarna Sweden. She represented the market place expressing what people want in their embroidery and embroidery software. She traveled frequently to the product developers in both Sweden and London England. Soni lived in Jonkoping Sweden for two years as she headed up Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff’s international education departments. After coming back to the United States, she continued with her love of embroidery and sewing while heading up the Software department of Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff, eventually becoming the Global Product Manager for this division.

Soni now directs her own sewing, embroidery and software consulting business. She travels throughout the United States holding seminars and training sessions sharing her joy of sewing with others.

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