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Variations on a Heart

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Okay when I said "I took this week" I should have said "these weeks" because this just keeps opening up new options.

Most of the charms included both a turned version and a flat version, which I was calling "outline" and "outline felt." Instructions called for skipping the Loop Tackdown step on the felt option, and then skipping whichever of the outlines you weren't using. Between skipping the structural and design stitches, the Conversation Heart has nine or more stitch colors, only four or five of which will get chosen.

And now? I can put them all into one file, add a bunch more sentiments, and two more types (ribbon-through bunting, and conventional applique) and it will inflate it into all (counts on fingers) SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY versions/sizes/types, each one ready to put on a machine and stitch every step of without having to refer to the instructions. I'm very excited about this.

(Also that's 640 designs before accounting for each different machine format. Ink/Stitch does... 11 formats now? Don't worry, they'll be organized into sub-ZIP files).

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