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1630 Designs

These have all been created on the Designer Software.

... this sure took some messin' around with to understand...

but once the pennies drop (it takes several).. it makes for pretty stitching...

When I first started I got very depressed because the designs

would simply not sew they way they looked on the screen.

Then I got clever and downloaded some by Ashley Engelund.

Once I opened them in the Designer software I saw how they were done

I started using similar settings for stich length/width and size of designs

and then my Bernina started taking me places....!

There are three types of designs on this page:

1. Border Stitches

2. Pivot Stitches

3. Monograms

[Luk ma, six mons ago i coorent
e'en spell deezina..
end now I are mekking dem plenty!!]

All of the following designs can be repeated to form a border/running decoration.

1. Border Stitches

Description	Sewn Picture	Designer Picture	File (Click on name to download)
Border 1 This sews sideways..... ( ok... I was still learing...)			Bord1.zip
Border 2 Got clever.. it sews forwards...			Bord2.zip
Border 3 A lot bigger than the others, but sews very nicely and easily!			Bord3.zip
Border 4 A very mixed one, and fairly big, take care to stabilize and sew ssslloowwwlyy!			Bord4.zip
Border 5 Oweeee! This one in golden thread does things for me! (Use the open toe embroidery foot #20 for best results)			Bord5.zip
Border 6 This one and the next sort of work together...			Bord6.zip
Border 7 This one is the same design as border 6, just zig-zag in different places..			Bord7.zip
Border 8 Now this one looks good in shiny embroidery thread and repeats well, especially on left/right mirror in memory..			Bord8.zip
Border 10 For this border stitch to work you have to program it into memory with the second one a top/bottom mirrored one.			Bord10b.zip
F2/3 (Single stitch) This was a direct result of Cyndi Messick having done me a "little" favour by helping me to get my sweaty paws on a border key! Look carefully for the difference between mine and the regular F2/3 (apart from mine being capable of being enlarged.	Above, F2/3 as the 1630 sews it - Below, my "copy" design of it (bigger than you can get it with the 9mm max settings		Yst itch.zip
F2/3 (Triple stitch) The above F2/3 is fine as long as you don't enlarge it... but once you have... the proportions are lost due to the "thin" thread" so I really enlarged it (ala borderkey-style) and made it triple!	This was much bigger and the "thicker" line (triple stitch) does it! Below, even bigger - like you get off the border key!		Ystitchx3.zip Ystitchx5.zip

I started looking at these designs of mine and saw the potential to utilize them as "tiles". That's how I got thinking of making my own "pivotal stitches". For all the designs below you should have the needle stop down activated along with the end pattern function set on 1.

And once I got started there was no stopping.... I happen to page through an embroidery book and saw some Assissi designs... now there's a challenge I couldn't resist!!

I do apologise for the sewn out samples... not all of them are perfectly aligned...I was in too much of a hurry to see how they came out to turn perfectly 90 degrees every time...:-(((

2. Pivot Stitches

Description	Sewn Picture	Designer Picture	File (Click on name to download)
Pivot 1 This one works well with or without the left/right mirror function engaged (for the duration of a whole square)			Pivot1.zip
Pivot 2 I haven't tried this one with left/right mirror... you wanna be brave and try it and tell....			Pivot2.zip
Cross-stitch pivot 3 This was the first of the cross stitch pivotal stitches... still a bit on the wary side...:-))			xpivot3.zip
Cross-stitch pivot 4 ...and here the asissi variations start... hang on....			xpivot4.zip
Cross-stitch pivot 5 Hmmm... I heard redwork is catching on again...:-))			xpivot5.zip
Cross-stitch pivot 6 All the cross-stitch pivotal designs would look swell on napkins and table cloths...			xpivot6.zip
Cross-stitch pivot 7 ..very good example of how NOT to pivot...it doesn't match on the last corner...			xpivot7.zip
Monograms	See also the Alphabet Pages	elsewhere on this site
Monogram I've heard a lot of folks say you should use fonts on your PC for your own monograms... here's mine of the letter C... If you go to the alphabet page you can download individual letters.			c.zip
Monogram (Old English) This one is especially for the feline from the forrest of Redwoods..:-)) VBG! (Note for future: If I do the entire alphabet in this style it will be for sale - not free!			coe.zip