QUILTsocial | Issue 08

In this photo, I’m scrolling side to side.
Scrolling side to side will allow me
to scroll through the various menus.
An easy way to find the category of
embroidery designs you’re looking for.
Something else that’s very important
is selecting the correct hoop size. The
Designer EPIC will NOT start a stitchout
if an appropriate hoop size is not
selected. This is a safety feature and
a very important one. No danger of
starting a design and realizing the hoop
isn’t big enough. You can see that there
are lots of options for hoops. I like to
select the smallest hoop possible for the
design that I’m working on.
My biggest issue with hoops? The sizes
are metric. There are many things that I
can deal with in metric, the temperature
outside, driving a car, but for some reason,
inches and centimeters just don’t translate
for me. I must make this a “must learn” item
for this year. It would save me a lot of time,
not just for hoops, but in general.
Scrolling side to side through the various
embroidery design menus
In the next photo, you can see that
the pink tab opens up the embroidery
design menus. I can also load a stitch
(blue tab), load a font (green tab)
or bring a saved file in from the file
manager (red tab). The brown tab is the
JoyOS advisor project tab. YES – there
are designs available depending on the
specialty embroidery technique you’ve
chosen in the JoyOS advisor. This is so
awesome! The bottom tab is the thread
color edit tab.
Remember that the Designer EPIC has
internet capabilities. That means files can
be downloaded directly to the Designer
EPIC. I can upload saved files to the
mySewNet cloud.
These capabilities are totally amazing.
Remember I said that on my old
embroidery machine that all of the
design work was done on the computer
and then loaded via a floppy disk?
There’s just no comparison between the
two machines. What was once a very
laborious and technical task, is so easy
that anyone can do machine embroidery.
Using MANY different techniques.
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Lots of options to bring files/designs into the
Designer EPIC
Once I choose a design (in this case,
Number 1 from the L Heart and Butterfly
Designs menu), then information about
that design appears at the bottom of
the screen. I get the file name, the size,
the number of stitches and how many
thread colors there are in the design. All
of this is very useful information when
you want to stitch something out.
Information about the selected design
Wide variety of hoop sizes and types available