I decided to post a few things I have digitized over the years. Unfortunately, I don't have all the actual embroidered items, instead these are pictures exported from DesignerPlus. These were mostly designed in DesignerPlus 4.0.
The vacuum cleaner was a picture I found on the web of an Electrolux vacuum. Dad originally worked in an Electrolux store after retiring from the military. When Electrolux closed, he opened his own repair shop. I used the autodigitzer feature and I had difficulty reducing the number of colors to something manageable. The vacuum is recognizable, but does not have the detail I was looking for, but it sewed out nicely. Tammy and I gave him the apron for Christmas and he seemed to like. I haven't been to his shop since, so I don't know if he is actually wearing it or not.
The vacuum cleaner was a picture I found on the web of an Electrolux vacuum. Dad originally worked in an Electrolux store after retiring from the military. When Electrolux closed, he opened his own repair shop. I used the autodigitzer feature and I had difficulty reducing the number of colors to something manageable. The vacuum is recognizable, but does not have the detail I was looking for, but it sewed out nicely. Tammy and I gave him the apron for Christmas and he seemed to like. I haven't been to his shop since, so I don't know if he is actually wearing it or not.
This was done using the photosnap feature in version 6.0. I think photosnap is available in 4.0, but I am not sure because I never used it. The feature was demonstrated at a Bernina class I took and I just had to try it out. It is actually a picture of my nephew wearing his R2D2 costume. I used functions in the light version of CorelDraw that comes with the software to erase the background. It was not easy to do because I had to trace around what I wanted to keep. You can still see some of the background around him. I didn't erase it all because it was just a test and not important enough to take the time to make it exact. I had also a tool to put an oval border around it instead of square. I personally like it better as an oval, but I can't seem to find the file.
This last one for now is what I call the game sampler. A friend of mine wold like dice bags for his dice sets for Runebound, Arkham Horror, and Descent. The seven images in circles are for Runebound and they represent terrain: mountains, forest, river, hills, road, desert, and swamp. I was able to use the blackwork run feature on some of them to keep from having lots of jump stitches. I believe the swamp (tan) is the only one with jump stitches and the desert (yellow) is the only one with a fill--most of them are outlines. The idea is to have each of the dice bags have one of the terrain symbols on it.
The red star in the center is an elder sign from Arkham Horror. I actually embroidered this on a black velvet bag for my friend to use as the "monster cup". My sister sewed the bag together for me. I was thinking of putting the elder sign in different colors on the bags for Arkham Horror. We actually made two bags because while I was embroidering the first, there was something in the way of the embroidery arm and it could not go up far enough on the left. It probably would not have been a problem if the bobbin thread had not broken and we had to back up on the design. When I noticed it, my sister said to back it up to before the issue and let it double embroider and it will be fine. Unfortunately, I could see the double point at the end of the star, so I embroidered a new one.
The last image is that of a meeple from the game Carcasonne. I wanted bags for each color of meeples I had and tried to make bags using this blue velveteen remnant my sister had. I tried different fills on each bag. Unfortunately, the cloth was stretchy and my sister had a hard time sewing the bags. It didn't help that I wanted to make them small bags. Some day I may post pictures of the bags themselves, but for now you can see a single meeple with a step fill.
The red star in the center is an elder sign from Arkham Horror. I actually embroidered this on a black velvet bag for my friend to use as the "monster cup". My sister sewed the bag together for me. I was thinking of putting the elder sign in different colors on the bags for Arkham Horror. We actually made two bags because while I was embroidering the first, there was something in the way of the embroidery arm and it could not go up far enough on the left. It probably would not have been a problem if the bobbin thread had not broken and we had to back up on the design. When I noticed it, my sister said to back it up to before the issue and let it double embroider and it will be fine. Unfortunately, I could see the double point at the end of the star, so I embroidered a new one.
The last image is that of a meeple from the game Carcasonne. I wanted bags for each color of meeples I had and tried to make bags using this blue velveteen remnant my sister had. I tried different fills on each bag. Unfortunately, the cloth was stretchy and my sister had a hard time sewing the bags. It didn't help that I wanted to make them small bags. Some day I may post pictures of the bags themselves, but for now you can see a single meeple with a step fill.
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