Tuesday, March 2, 2010

March Embroidery Club Meeting

Our second Embroidery Club meeting was this afternoon.  I was a little more prepared...had an idea of what to expect, and Teach had given us our project assignment ahead of time: we were to make an embroidered binder cover.  This binder will hold all of the papers and notes from Embroidery Club.  I thought to myself, "Hey this will be my chance to get creative and experiment with what I have learned so far on my 4D Design software!"  Of course, I didn't get to it until the morning of , but I already had an idea of what I was going to do.
Here is the work in progress. At this point, I already knew that I was not happy with it and would do it over at home. The problem is with the floral 'frame' that I selected to use as part of my design. I did not make any  changes other than resizing the frame itself, but as it was stitched out, it became obvious to me that there are flaws in the original design. A couple of people have told me that as I begin to do more with this, I will find that there are differences in the skills of different designers. Part of my 'fun' will be making changes and corrections to suit my needs.
If you look closely, you might be able to see that on the upper left and the lower right quadrant of the frame, that the flower blossom is kind of bunched up and screwy...lines also seem broken or missing.  It does not really look like a flower at all.  Harder to see, is that the leaves on one side of those blossoms were only stitched with a single pass.  The lines are not as thick as on the rest of the 'frame'  and don't stand out as well.  These are flaws that I will be able to correct with my 4D software as I become more proficient.  As for this one, I am not going to finish making it into the binder cover, but will start over with a new design.  We are 'required' to show our finished project at the next club meeting!