DSEIGNER RUBY Royale Advanced Workshop

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1 DSEIGNER RUBY Royale Advanced Workshop By Karin Johannesson Explore some of the top features of the HUSQVARNA VIKING DESIGNER RUBY Royal sewing and embroidery machine and use both sewing and embroidery features to create this purse with a decorative strap. Sewing Supplies; HUSQVARNA VIKING DESIGNER RUBY Royal sewing and embroidery machine HUSQVARNA VIKING DESIGNER Crown Hoop, 260x HUSQVARNA VIKING Utility foot A HUSQVARNA VIKING Decorative Stitch Foot B HUSQVARNA VIKING Blindhem Foot D HUSQVARNA VIKING Zipper foot E HUSQVARNA VIKING Sensor Q foot HUSQVARNA VIKING Side Motion Foot S INSPIRA embroidery needle, size INSPIRA twin needle, size mm INSPIRA Fusible Fleece, iron on batting INSPIRA Tear-A-Way stabilizer INSPIRA Stick N Fuse 11 for Dimensional Stitches Fabric A 14 laminated linen or something similar (outside of bag and strap) Fabric B 14 quilter s cotton (inside of bag and appliqués) Fabric C 4 cotton, solid color, no print (decorative stitching) Fabric scraps for test sewing decorative stitches etc. 14 of 1⅛ Wide (or slightly wider) webbing (strap) 3 of ⅝ Wide ribbon (strap attachment) 10 (25 cm) zipper One set of key fob hardware (strap attachment) (if you can get hold of this item you could use a D-ring instead) Threads; A selection of embroidery threads for embroidery and decorative stitches, sewing thread for construction and embroidery bobbin fill for embroidery. General sewing supplies: marking pen, pins, embroidery scissors, iron and pliers (to attach the key fob hardware set.) Page 1 of 14

2 Cut; Make yourself a pattern using the included diagram (pdf file) with measurements. Fabric A 1 pcs according to purse pattern (seam allowance is included) 2 W x 14 L (dimensional stitches on strap) Fabric B 1 pcs according to purse pattern (seam allowance is included) 5 x 5 (design appliqué) 20 pieces 1½ x 1½ (dimensional stitches) Fabric C 4 W x 13 L INSPIRA Fusible Fleece 1 piece of purse pattern INSPIRA Tear-A-Way stabilizer 16 L x 12 W 4 W x 13 L 2½ W x 14 L Scrap pieces for test sewing decorative stitches etc. Prepare; Press the INSPIRA Fusible Fleece on to the purse fabric A. Press INSPIRA Stick N Fuse ll on the wrong side of all small pieces of scrap fabric for Dimensional Stitches. Remove the paper, leaving the glued part on the back side of your fabric pieces. (You can also press the INSPIRA Stick N Fuse ll to the fabric before cutting the small squares.) Page 2 of 14

3 Design Appliqué Let s start with programming the Design Appliqué embroidery file to save it into the machine memory. In the DESINGER RUBY Royale sewing and embroidery machine, you have three different stitches and seven different shapes to choose from to create original embroidery appliqués instantly on the screen. 1. Make sure you re in Embroidery Edit mode 2. Touch My Hoops and select the 120x120 Hoop. (We are not going to embroider with this hoop, but it doesn t matter which hoop we use when programming. I usually select a hoop that is close to the size of embroidery combination that I d like to create.) 3. Touch Basic Design Appliqué 4. There are 7 shapes to choose from when creating an appliqué design. The Circle shape is selected by default. We are going to create a heart, so touch on the heart shape. 5. We want the heart to be slightly smaller, so touch the down arrow in the wheel to make it smaller. Set the height of the heart to We also want this heart to have a slightly different look. It should be a little bit narrower, so therefore we need to touch the padlock to unlock proportions. 7. Touch the left arrow in the wheel to set the size to 110 x We are also going to change the decorative stitch of the appliqué from the default wide satin stitch to the irregular satin stitch which is called Fur stich, touch the third stitch to select it. 9. Touch OK Page 3 of 14

4 Tips! Touch Color block list and zoom in close to the stitches if you d like to see how this appliqué is built up with three different color blocks. First color block is a placement line, showing you where to put your appliqué fabric. Second color block is a stitch that sews the appliqué fabric in place. After this color block is sewn you should trim away the excess fabric. Third color block is your decorative stitch that covers the raw edges. 10. Touch Save to My Designs 11. Touch Rename. 12. Erase the genereted file name by touch and hold on Delete and type HEART 13. Touch OK to confirm your new name. 14. Touch OK to save the file. 15. Touch My Hoops and select the 260x200 Hoop. 16. Make sure the design is centered in the hoop. (If not, just touch the center of the wheel to center it) 17. We are going to add some text on top of the appliqué heart. Touch the Font Menu in the toolbar. 18. Scroll down and select Embroidery Font Mesa Type the text you want to embroider on your purse.i have embroidred I m a limited edition on my purse. 20. Touch OK to close the text input screen and toggle to embroidery edit. 21. Make sure the text is centered in the hoop. (If not, just touch the center of the wheel to center it) 22. Touch Save to My Designs 23. Touch OK to save the file 24. Touch OK in the pop-up Replace file? Page 4 of 14

5 Create a Side-motion stitch in Prog mode The second file we are going to create and save for later use is a stitch that we will make by using the programming feature in Sewing Mode. We will open a built-in stitch and add some side-motion stitches to create a wider stitch. (We have had this feature built into the Top of the line machines for some years, but a lot of us haven t been using and promoting this feature much. So therefore I would like to take the opportunity to show you how to create such a stitch.) 1. Make sure you re in Sewing mode 2. Touch Program to open the window where you can create the stitch. 3. Touch Stitch Menu and select stich M11 4. Touch Duplicate to get another stitch on screen. 5. Touch Mirror Side-to-Side to flip the stitch sideways. 6. Touch the Scroll Up one time to move the cursor up to the position between the two stitches. 7. Touch Stitch Menu and select 8-Way Stitches (menu T). 8. Touch the straight stitch that sews backward and to the right. 9. Change the width 0.3 See how the decorative stitches move together as you change the setting of this stitch. 10. Touch Duplicate, change the width Touch Duplicate, keep the exact same settings. 12. Touch Duplicate, change the width 1.8 and the length to Touch the Scroll Down one time to move the cursor down to the position below the decorative stitch. 14. Touch the straight stitch that sews backward and to the left. 15. Repeat step 9, 10, 11 and Touch OK to toggle to sewing mode and see what the stitch will look like. 17. Touch Save to My Stitches 18. Touch an empty slot to save your stitch in the U-menu. 19. Touch OK Page 5 of 14

6 Embroidery- and Sewing instruction All the programming is now done and it s time to start sewing! 1. Attach the embroidery unit and the Sensor Q foot to the machine. 2. Hoop tear away stabilizer in the DESIGNER Crown Hoop. 3. Thread the machine with an embroidery bobbin thread in the bobbin. 4. Attach the embroidery hoop to the embroidery unit arm. Design Appliqué 1. Make sure you re in Embroidery Edit mode 2. Also make sure that you do not have anything selected on screen. If you do, touch and hold on Delete icon to clear the screen 3. Touch My Hoops and select the DESIGNER Crown Hoop 260x Touch File Manager and touch My Designs 5. Touch and hold on the Design Applique design, called HEART, which you saved earlier. 6. Touch GO to toggle to Embroidery Stitch out mode. 7. Mark the front side of the purse where you want the embroidery and the text to be placed. 8. Place the outside purse piece on top of the stabilizer. 9. Touch and hold Baste in Hoop. Deselect Baste around design and select Baste around hoop area and touch OK. 10. Baste the fabric piece to the stabilizer. (I usually use the foot control when basting instead of the start/stop button, because I think it gives me more control when one layer is loose. It allows me to use my hands to keep the fabric in place and easily stop sewing with the foot control if I feel I need to adjust anything) Page 6 of 14

7 11. Touch Design Positioning to place the embroidery exactly where you want it to be placed. 12. Touch Step 1 and place the cursor on the screen where your text starts on the left hand side. (If you need to zoom in you can always use Zoom to c Cursor ) 13. Touch Step 2 and move to the desired position on the fabric. 14. Touch Step 3 and place the cursor on the right hand side. If the desgin needs to be rotated to match the marked line, touch Step 4 and rotate the design in place. 15. When you re happy with your placement touch OK. 16. It is now time to start the embroidery. Touch Start/Stop on your machine to start with the first color block (1:1), which is the placement line for the applique fabric. 17. After the first color block is sewn, place your appliqué fabric on top of the placement line. 18. Color block 1:2 sews the applique fabric in place. 19. When the color block is sewn, cut away the excess fabric. Page 7 of 14

8 20. Color block 1:3 sews the satin stitch around the appliqué. 21. When the appliqué is done the text will be embroidered. If desired thread your machine with another thread color. 22. To sew all letters in one step without any stops between the letters, press the STOP button function. 23. Sew all letters. 24. When your embroidery is finished; - remove the hoop from the embroidery unit arm - open the hoop to release the project - tear away the stabilizer. 25. Set your machine for sewing! - remove the embroidery unit - remove the Sensor Q foot - put on the presser foot ankle. on the sewing head to deactivate the stop Page 8 of 14

9 Sew programmed side-motion stich and twin-needle stitches. 1. Make sure you re in Sewing mode 2. Touch Stitch Menu, the drop down list opens. 3. Touch My stitches and select your programmed Side-motion stitch. 4. Take the 4 x 13 solid fabric C piece and make a marking line down the center and mark one line on each side of the center line 1 distance from the center line. 5. Place a tear away stabilizer under the fabric. 6. Snap on the S-foot. 7. Place the fabric with the marking under the S-foot. 8. Carefully sew down the marked line trying to keep the line aligned with the presser foot as you sew. 9. When you re done with your first row of stitching, touch Stitch Menu and select stitch J1: Touch the Ruby menu and touch SET menu. 11. Touch Sewing settings. 12. Touch Twin needle and, set it for a 2.0 mm twin needle. and touch OK. 13. Touch OK one more time to close the Set menu. 14. Remove the embroidery needle and replace it with a 2.0mm twin needle. Look what happens when you set the machine for twin needle sewing. The deluxe stitch system changes from thread portioning to thread tension. The reason for that is that if one of the two threads breaks, the sensor is still going to feel a thread and won t give a warning and the loose thread could start to wind round one of the rollers for thread portioning and damage the parts. Page 9 of 14

10 15. Snap on the B foot. Sew next to the already sewn decorative stitch, letting the edge of the B foot follow the edge of the sewn stitch. Stitch on both sides of the previously sewn programmed stitch. 16. Remove the project from the sewing machine and tear away the stabilizer. Press the edges of the fabric piece to the back side along the marked lines. 17. Touch the Ruby menu and touch SET menu. 18. Touch Twin needle and, set it to off. 19. Touch OK to close the Set menu. 20. Remove the twin needle and replace it with the embroidery needle again. 21. Place the decorated fabric piece horizontally centered over the back side of your purse and pin it in place. 22. Touch Stitch Menu and select a stitch you would like to use for sewing the decorated fabric piece in place. I wanted to sew with a glitter thread and since I know that glitter threads works best with thread portioning I had to select a stitch that is not set for thread tension, which means that a common straight stitch wouldn t be a good choice. I selected stitch A1:8, the reinforced zigzag, since I think it is a nice stitch for topstitching and it allows me to use a glitter thread with thread portioning. 23. Snap on the D foot, sew along the edge of the fabric. Make sure the folded edge of the fabric follows the inside of the toe of presser foot D. 24. Turn your project and sew the other side of the fabric from the same direction so that you can use the D foot for both sides. Page 10 of 14

11 Sew the handle with a Dimensional stitch The DESIGNER RUBY ROYALE has over 500 stitches built in! That is amazing, but that s not all. There is a new stitch menu, including 8 new stitches for more creative opportunities. There is a patent pending for these stitches, we call them Dimensional stitches. With these stitches you can create stitches with unique dimensional decorative effects by adding appliqué fabric. 1. Make sure you re in Sewing mode 2. Touch Stitch Menu, the drop down list opens. You ll notice the new Y- menu, with all the Dimensional stitches. 3. Touch stitch Y1:6 4. Snap on the S foot. The fabric you choose, the stabilizer you are using and the thread you are sewing with will all affect the result on all stitches built into the machine. But some stitches are more sensitive than others, so are the widest side-motion stitches. With that said it could be that you need to go in to the SET menu and make some temporarily changes to a stitch depending on the conditions for that specific project, no matter if the machine is perfectly balanced in the service menu. Therefore take a scrap piece of fabric and place a scrap piece of stabilizer behind it and test sew your stitch. If the stitch looks good, you re good to go! If your stitch doesn t line up perfect, you have the possibility to make temporary adjustments. Maybe it looks something like this With the stitch still selected you just touch the Ruby Menu in the red bar at the top of your screen and touch the SET menu to open. Make sure you re in the Stitch settings tab. It will open a window with your selected stitch shown. Change the picture of the stitch on the screen to match your sewn sample, using the + and - icons. Make the stitch on the screen look like your unbalanced stitch-out and touch OK. Now when you sew again on the same fabric, the balance will be corrected. The machine will now automatically balance the stitch for you. Page 11 of 14

12 5. Take the 2½ x 14 fabric C piece (for dimensional stitches on strap) and draw a line down the center of the fabric piece. 6. Place a tear away stabilizer underneath. 7. Place the fabric with the mark under the S-foot and activate Needle Down 8. When you start sewing the stich is sewn until you reach a stop command in the stitch. The machine stops, the needle goes down into the base fabric and the presser foot lifts to pivot position. 9. In order for you to get the fabric all the way up to the needle it actually helps if you just make a small snip on the edge that will be touching the needle. Place one of your small appliqué fabric pieces from behind: Place it all the way up to the needle with the fabric almost wrapping around the needle. 10. Continue to sew until the machine stops again and place the second appliqué fabric in place. Repeat until you ve reached the desired length. 11. When you re done with your stitching, remove the project from the sewing machine and trim away all the excess fabric. 12. Take your fabric over to the ironing board and carefully press the appliqué fabric pieces in place. 13. Press the edges of the fabric strip to the back and pin it in place centered on top of the webbing. 14. Snap on the D foot, sew along the edge of the fabric. Make sure the folded edge of the fabric follows the inside toe of presser foot D. 15. Take your strap and place it in the key fob hardware and press it together by using your pliers. Page 12 of 14

13 Constructing the purse! 1. Snap the E foot on to the left. 2. Set the exclusive SEWING ADVISOR feature for Woven heavy and Seam. 3. Set the needle position to Place the outer fabric and the lining piece right sides together. Place the zipper, sandwiched in-between. Right side of the zipper should face right side of the purse. 5. Sew along the zipper coil. 6. Fold the right sides out and press. 7. Snap on the A foot. 8. Topstitch in place. 9. Repeat for the other side of the zipper. 10. Sew along the edges all the way around your purse to keep all layers together. 11. Overcast the edges by setting the exclusive SEWING ADVISOR feature for Woven heavy and Overcast. 12. Fold your purse with wrong sides out. Fold the bottom of the bag up like shown on picture Page 13 of 14

14 13. Pin the sides together. 14. Don t forget to put in the folded short piece of ribbon for the strap attachment into one of the side seams. 15. Open up the zipper before you sew the side seams together! 16. Sew the sides together, by selecting seam in the exclusive SEWING ADVISOR. 17. Put your hand through the open zipper and turn the right sides out and attach the strap! Put your belongings into the purse and you re ready to take off! Page 14 of 14

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