QUILTsocial Issue 14

It doesn’t get any easier than that.
All these information sources do
NOT replace a good class from your
Husqvarna Viking dealer. The class will
give you a good overview of everything
that’s possible, but it will be difficult to
remember it all.
These amazing reference tools will help
you when there’s no one to guide you
at home.
The key to remember is to search
through or read through the information
in bits. Sit at the sewing machine. Touch
the buttons, see what happens when
you push all the buttons. You can’t really
hurt anything and all you have to gain is
knowledge.
I’ve barely touched the surface of the
options available on the Husqvarna
Viking Designer EPIC. There’s truly a
whole lot more to explore and I hope to
touch on more options.
Changing the text to print on a curved shape is as
easy as selecting the shape from the popup menu
6 steps to creating an embroidered
quilt label using the Designer EPIC
Before I get started, I thought I’d share
this story with you. I love technology
and for the most part, I’m pretty good
with it. However, I was struggling to
download the User’s Guide to my tablet.
I did what I was supposed to do, but
nothing happened. So I booked a service
appointment (thankfully on the phone)
with the tablet manufacturer. They called
me on time. While the customer service
rep was logging the call, I thought I
would try to download the User’s Guide
one more time.
You guessed it – in a matter of seconds
that file downloaded into the tablet.
But now I have the User’s Guide on my
tablet and I can reference it wherever or
whenever I want. I’m excited about that.
I’ll make a quilt label using the
embroidery functions of the Designer
EPIC. I don’t normally make a quilt label
until a quilt is finished and there was no
quilt that was in need of a label. OK – I’m
lying about that. I decided to make a
label for one of the quilts that I made the
sashings for earlier.
There’s a story about this label that’ll give
you a smile.
Step 1 - What info goes on the label
I started off with a piece of paper so I
could make notes of what I wanted to
include on the label. Not too much, but
enough to let people know about the
quilt when I’m not around to tell them.
I started off with the name of the quilt,
the designer’s name, a few lines about
where and when the quilt was started
and who made it, where and when.
Once all that information was noted, I
went to the Embroidery Edit screen. I
started off by choosing the hoop size
that I wanted to use – 200 x 200.
Then I added in the lines of lettering.
There are 9 lines in total. At this point, I
didn’t really care how they looked on the
edit screen. I just wanted the spelling to
be correct and all the words included.
Step 2 - Position the rows of letters
Next up was to position the rows of
lettering into a nice looking label.
Since I still have the grid lines set at ½”,
it’s easy for me to visualize how they’ll
look when the label is stitched out.
Remember that you can adjust the size
of those grid lines depending on what
you’re making.
The rows of lettering have been entered into the
Embroidery Edit screen
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