✳ DIGITIZING BLUEPRINTFTCU MASTERCLASS · DIGITIZING PREP
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YOUR DIGITIZING BLUEPRINT

Analyze your artwork. Map your stitches.

Plan your design — from Pencil to Stitches practice to a complete digitizing blueprint.

01 Prepare02 Mark03 Sequence
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02 / MARK

Stitch direction & travel

Drag marks to move them. Click a mark to select its sequence.
Marks → Sequence 1Choose worksheet content in Print / PDF

Use your colored pencils on the printed faint copy, or draw here. Symbols are learning cues you place yourself.

Learn to read a design

Start by looking at objects, not thread colors.

  1. Find the layers. What sits behind another object? What overlaps it? Make a tentative order from back to front.
  2. Choose a stitch type. Consider a fill for a broad area, satin for a suitable narrow area, or a run for a line or travel path. These are starting questions, not automatic rules.
  3. Draw the direction. Use parallel pencil strokes to show how you want the stitches to lie. Consider the shape and the effect you want.
  4. Plan travel. Mark a green start and red end if useful. Add tie-in, tie-off, and trim cues where you intend to use them.
  5. Decide on outlines. An outline can follow its fill or wait until later. Overlap and coverage help you decide.
  6. Review the sequence. Repeated colors are allowed. Explain why each object sews at that point.

🟢 Start · 🔴 End · ⊕ Tie-in · ⊗ Tie-off · ✂ Trim · ✊ Punch · crossed fist: do not punch · 🚗 Travel · R Run · S Satin · F Fill · A Appliqué

These worksheet symbols are learning conventions, not FTCU stitch commands. Use the fist to record a punch-through intention, the crossed fist to keep an overlap, and the car plus an arrow to sketch travel. Stitch letters label an intended technique.

Density, compensation, stitch length, and underlay depend on fabric, thread, technique, and testing. Record your instructor’s guidance in the settings field, then validate with a sew-out.

Print & PDF worksheet

US Letter · 8.5 × 11 inches

Actual size uses 7.5 × 9-inch image areas with ¼-inch overlap. Cut on the dotted boundary, match the crosses in overlapping pages, and tape together. Always print PDFs at 100% / Actual size.

Only the original reference changes size. The coloring template uses the design size and the sizing option above.

Planning options

Start with the choices from your Floriani composition sheet. Add or rename options, one per line. Changes are saved with this study and preserved in project files.