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Published: 2012-09-09 22:26:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 22370; Favourites: 284; Downloads: 94
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View here! [link]First tutorial here: [link]
My second SophieSew tutorial. This will probably be it for a while. Not sure what else to cover. People will have to experiment on their own regardless but hopefully this is a good jump-start.
Now you can design and embroidery on whatever you like, blankets, plushies, pillows, shirts, pants, …undergarments? "Ehh, maybe not."
Also, this is not a “how to make Rarity’s eye” tutorial. I don’t really do “how to make _____” tutorials, I just want to get people to know the software better and what to expect when using certain tools.
Bring on version 2!
First tutorial deviation:
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Do you get gaps in the region stitching? I have been getting a line gap here and there in my stitching and I have no idea how to fix it.
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*SpaceVoyager also has some occasional continuity problems with regions. The key is to minimize the distance between inevitable offsets. ... As an example, let's say a small section is stitched first, either a small part off to the side or the bottom, then it goes back to the top and meets in the middle. This is unwanted. The best way to combat this problem that I've found it to:
1. Set entry and exit points at the "bottom" of the region (which is parallel to the stitch angle).
2. Change the stitch angle to reduce or eliminate any break in the stitches (so it won't have to go back and compensate).
3. Flip the design horizontally and re-check entry/exit points to see if an inevitable compensation gap has been reduced (ie, it starts from the "top," take a small detour when it's near the stitches that are separate, stitches those, and continues seamlessly where it left off).
Hope that helps!
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Thank you so much! Completely solved my problem. 
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How did you make the eye? I've been messing around with the program and I just absolutely have no idea how you made the eye. Did you make it from scratch?
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Well, I used regions for the pupil, eye white, and highlights. I used curved columns for everything else. I made it with a reference image (which you can insert into the program to trace on top of, which I didn't realize at the time 
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I have an BROTHER XL-3750 sewing machine and I just figured out how to set it to make embroidery lines. Everyso often the machine jams or the top thread breaks do you have any special techniques for fixing that problem? :3
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Well, even during an embroidery run on my Brother SE-400, the upper thread will break on occasion. I’ve also had it fall off the thread pull-up arm once which jams the fabric to the base of the machine.
The laws of physica will always make sure there are problems, but how often are you having problems? If it’s too often, then there might be something wrong like to much tension or the thread falling off pull-up arm (I just used tape to fix that on my mom’s old 30-year-old machine even though I have to thread it when re-threading).
Hope that helps!
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I'm about to try out sophie sew, I have auto punch from singer and it is really a pain to use, wish me luck and thanks
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Awesome! 
Thank you for giving it a try.
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Hah, I would have loved this tutorial when I first started embroidering and used SophieSew. But that program crashed so much for me that I had to find another one. ;_;
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Well, believe me, I was surprised it didn’t crash on me one time during the tutorials!
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I'll probably try it again once version 2 is out and it's awesome that you're doing tutorials for it. ^_^
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Awesome! And thank you.
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My friend wants me to use my machine to embroider a Jesus Fish onto his shirt and I'm like;
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I'm just like bitch please do you think me, the only Athiest friend you have is gonna have a Jesus fish embroidery file?
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Well everything needs to be designed, and the machine certainly isn’t going to come with one.
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To me, fish are symbols of aquariums and seafood resturaunts. I really never got how they're supposed to be religous.
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It is definitely more of an inside symbolism for those not familiar with it, but it's taken from the verse in Matthew 4:19 (and Mark 1:17): "Then [Jesus] said to them, 'Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.'" That's where it came from, but I don't have a clue who started the trend.
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Someone was sitting there, drinking too much coffee at 3am, and said "I know! Jesus gave people fish, so let's make a fish represent him because it makes sense at this moment!" That's how I picture ideas like that happening. I suppose a lot of christians should count themselves lucky that this person didn't go with the "bread from heaven" or "water to wine" thing instead.
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Heheh. Well, it could well have a dualistic source of symbolism, but yeah, I hear that. ^^ Those others might be a little difficult to put into a symbol.
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thanks.. I will see with my husband ^^ ( my bad English)
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Awesome! I hope he can understand my voice. I don’t have the best of voices for tutorials.
Thank you for the fave!
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They are cool to watch (for a short while). Our local Joann’s actually has $3k machines! 
Thank you much for the fave.
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cool yeah i watched some youtube videos of them. Ill get one eventually. np.
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I got a Brother PE500, SUPER easy to use, off amazon.com, great place for shipping for supplies, too
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