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Create Embroidered Greeting Cards with Pfaff’s 5D Card Shop Software

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Creating beautiful embroidered greeting cards couldn’t be easier with the new 5D Card Shop. The templates perfectly place all sides of your card flawlessly. If you have created cards before and wanted to do them in one hooping but got confused on which way each side should be set, upside down, right side up…5D Card shop has that all figured out for you.

Start with selecting from one of 41 themes. From Anniversary to Wedding, there is a theme for every occasion. Decide which layout you prefer, folding, double or single sided.

Select the template you wish to use. Each theme has a number of templates from which to select.

Select the size of the card, your hoop, and if you want it all to be stitched at one time, or each side individually. Selecting the 360mm x 350mm hoop and Single Embroidery would place all four sides of your card in one embroidery, aligning and flipping each side properly for folding. (See example of embroidery at the end of this article.) If you do not
have a 360mm x 350mm hoop, then you would select Multiple embroideries to stitch each side of your card separately.

That’s it! But wait…

What if you want a different design other than the one that is provided? Or, you want to remove a detail? Or, you want to add more detail? That is not a problem. Save your card and QuickLink to 5D Embroidery Extra or 5D Stitch Editor. Open the card into the work area and make any changes you want and save it.

What would the design look like in the hoop? Perfect!

With 5D Card Shop you will create delightful greeting cards, postcards, invitations, announcements and certificates that will be treasured by all who received them.

Stop by Quality Sewing and get a demo on the new 5D Card Shop and see how easy it is for yourself!

Enjoy your sewing adventures!
Lana L Jones
Educational Consultant


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C1100 Pro-Smarter by Pfaff

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

New Pfaff Quilting Machine the C1100 Pro

There is a new member to the Pfaff Sewing Machine family. Just unveiled at Pfaff convention, this machine boasts many desirable features that will benefit the quilter, home decorator, and garment creator alike. One of the features that I find most appealing is the 9” of well lit working space for large amounts of fabric. This helps make sewing draperies or bulky quilts much easier. The appearance of the machine is clean and you can tell by looking at it that it is ready to get working for you. It has a superior metal bobbin system and is ready to take on your next project.

For machine performance, top on the list are:

  • Ability to create decorative and utility stitches as wide as 9mm
  • Sewing speed up to 1100 stitches per minute—and the speed is adjustable
  • Dual feed— feeds top and bottom fabrics at same time for perfect seaming on all fabrics
  • Thread snips
  • Needle threader
  • Needle down
  • Mirror image of stitches
  • Needle and bobbin thread sensors—lets you know when you are out of thread
  • Automatic tie off
  • Auto start/stop button—for sewing without the foot petal
  • Automatic button holes—no more measuring!
  • Electronic thread tensions—no pesky dials
  • Twin needle feature
  • Dedicated bobbin winding motor
  • Large spool stands for using cones of threads
  • Knee lift for hands free raising of the presser foot
  • Extra high presser foot lift to accommodate thick fabrics and battings
  • Feed dog drop that is easy to access for free motion sewing

If you are looking for a machine that offers a multitude of benefits while remaining simple to use, stop in to any Quality Sewing location and give the Smarter C1100 Pro a try.


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Making Custom Badges With Your Embroidery Machine

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Recently I received this embroidery tip from Pfaff regarding making badges and patches using the applique shapes in 3D/4D.  What a great idea!  The directions are, of course, for doing this project using 3D/4D, but the same idea can be applied to many different brands of machines and embroidery programs.  Enjoy! –Katrina

Whether you are making badges for a kids’ group or your golf club, the Pfaff creative 3DTM or creative 4DTM Embroidery Software has some great tools to get you started making borders for use when creating badges.

Open creative 3DTM or creative 4DTM Embroidery. Choose the 100x100mm hoop.Shapes 1

Choose from Shapes 1, the badge in the 3rd row 2nd column. Change the size to 95mm, then Apply or Enter. This is a very nice shape for a badge.

Tip:
For a larger badge, the satin stitches may be too wide and catch when
wearing. Add a pattern to the satin to break up the stitches.

On
the right side of the page there are two buttons – Satin and Fill.
Because this shape consists of satin stitches, choose satin. A dialog
box comes up that lets you choose satin properties. Choose pattern 3
then 12 and see what the satin changes to. Try other patterns.

Pattern 0 Pattern 3 Pattern 12

Use a pattern for any satin shape. It gives nice texture to the shapes and helps when there are long stitches.

Another great tool is in creative 3DTM and creative 4DTM Stitch Editor (for creative 4DTM, this is part of the creative 4DTM Design Enhancer package). You can make a border with a consistent width no matter how large you make the border.Boat

On the Modify tab find the Border (creative 3DTM) or Border/Applique (creative 4DTM) tools. Choose a 100x100mm hoop. Go into Preferences Preferences icon. Click the Border tab. Here is where you choose the border width, density, color and if you want underlay for your border.

In creative 3DTM Stitch Editor you can make a rectangle, ellipse or polygon border.

Choose any design and bring it into the program. Choose the Rectangle border tool Rectangle border icon. Click and drag to create a rectangle in the hoop. Don’t worry if you touch the original design.Square border

Now click the Create Border tool Create border icon.
A border comes around the design in a new window. Notice at the bottom
there is a new tab with the design name and “b” after it. Your original
design is still intact in the previous window. Click on the original
design tab and then go back to your “design_b” tab. This will refresh
the screen and bring up the border color in the design tab.Color select

Go to the Design tab and right click on the border (last) color. The border should be hidden. Make Block from Visible Area Make block icon then Delete. Your border is still hidden. Click Draw All Stitches Draw all stitches icon. Your border is finished.

In creative 4DTM
Stitch Editor, you have many options for borders. Either draw your own
shape with the Polygon Draw or choose one of the 50 shapes included!
You can even make the border an appliqué automatically.Shield outline

Choose New New icon and on the Modify tab, choose shape number 25 and then Draw Border Shape Draw border shape icon. Click and drag the shape in your hoop. Now choose Create External Border or Create External Applique Create External icons.Shield border

Tip:
In Help, Contents, read the Border and Applique chapter to learn a lot
more about how to create external and internal borders and appliqués
with designs.

That’s it. You have created a shield that you can use for your badge!

Best wishes from Pfaff.

To test-drive a Pfaff and see machine embroidery in action, please be sure to visit the Pfaff experts at your local Quality Sewing and Vacuum.


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