Q and A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- Pre-session Chatter

Q and A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- Mr. MK Tech Advice

Q ad A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- Cropping, Baseline, Tension

Q and A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- Bobbin Case, Tension Spring, Tension and Thread Weights

Q and A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- Machine Console Settings, Low Bobbin Indicator

Q and A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- Programmable Handlebars

Q and A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- Tie-Offs related to Machine and PS Settings

Q and A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- Crosshair Colors, Boot Up Issues

Q and A with MK / 01-10-2022 -- PSD Mirror compared to Reflect

Prostitcher Designer, Folder Links and Grouped & Connected E2E Rather than Cropping

Prostitcher Designer, Draw Tools and Connection Techniques

Prostitcher Designer back to Prostitcher Premium to Stitch using Multi Point Marking

1/10/22 Q&A Notes

1/31/22 Q&A Notes

Mr. MK on Computer Update Issues, Windows 11, Buying a Computer, Scheduling Support Calls, The New MK Quilts Computer Sharing/Connecting Option

Prostitcher File Formats, Differences in Appearance between PSP Version 506 and 537

File Formats Continued, File Management Plans, Purchasing, Downloading and Indexing with Quilt Pattern Indexer (QPI)

Keywording Designs in Quilt Pattern Indexer (QPI), Oversized (in height) Edge to Edge -- How to Handle, Having a File Back-Up Plan

Continued Description of MK's File Management Plan, Renaming Design Files, Touching on Cloud Storage for Backups, Paul Explains Back Up Patterns from QPI

Further Discussion of QPI, MK's Approach to Custom Quilting - In Which Order, Different Approaches to Custom Quilting, Custom Cropping Discussion and Example of Crosshatch Around Applique

Using a Circle for "Rubber Band Area" versus "Multi-Point Area Marking", Creating an Alternate, Easier Area Shape

Wrapping it Up, Talking about Potential new Webinar or Course Specifically Focused toward Cloud Storage and QPI, What will be Working on Next

Bounds Box and Rubber Band Function, Area vs. Rubber Band Function, Transform Function, 2-Point Rotation when dealing with Custom Angles

Basting: How, When, Why, (not referring to basting the edges); Style of Internal Basting, Basting Stitch Length Discussed

Large Black Wholecloth Piece w/Basting

Burying Tails (To do Tie Off/Not To Do Tie Offs), Burying Knots the MK Way, Overstitching vs. Tie Offs or Burying

Review of L-Shaped Corner-Connected Borders w/Corners, Repeating/Alignment and Custo Cropping, Skewing (or not) options; PS Designer Options for Connections

The Backdrop Tool in PS Designer, Wrap-Up and Final Thoughts

Q&A Webinar Notes - 2/28/22

Pre-Session Chatter

Using and Viewing the Discussion Area of Coursework here on MKQU,

File Storage and the Machine Tablet,

Tightness of Your Quilt Between the Rails, Move Function and the Baste Function,

Building a Line Drawing For the Lemoyne Star / Using Prostitcher Designer

Finishing in Designer after Technical Difficulty, Building a Line Drawing for Lemoyne Star / Using Prostitcher

Finishing up Lemoyne Star Line Drawing in PSP

Uneven Border Sizes - Border Options

Finishing up Uneven Border Sizes

Building a Connected Sash with the "Melissa Sashing" from My Creative Stitches

Finishing Up w/Melissa Sashing,

Webinar Notes 3/21/22

Pre-Session Material / Uneven Advancing Part 01

Pre-Session Material / Uneven Advancing Part 02

Pre-Session Chatter

Discussing the Uneven Advance Situation

Uneven Advance Discussion Continued, Paul Discusses Testing a Machine w/PSP for Horizontal Drifting or Misalignment

Uneven Advance Discussion Continue, Review the Resizing of a Dense E2E upon Advance - The MK Way w/Use of the Measure Function

Resizing of a Dense E2E Continued, Option #2 - Use of the Area Function, Blocks on Point that Don't Fit a Shorter Throat Depth Machine

Blocks on Point that Don't Fit Continued, Option #2 - Use of Quarter Blocks, Live Layout and Rendering w/MK - Diamond on Point created from P2P Triangle and an E2E Design, Use of Rubberband Area

Further Instruction w/Rubberband Area,

Rebuilding a Simple Line Drawing of the Diamond on Point Block, Building a Custom Design from a P2P Triangle

MK's Simple Shape Library

Building a Custom Design Continued, Including a E2E Design, Use of the Original Height and Width Functionality, Positioning with the Run Simulation into Position Trick,

Stitch Order Matters to Get the New Design to be One Connected Design, Now on Point - Repeating the Design to Look Like the Quilt, Building the 16-Patch and Repeat it to Look Like the Quilt, Building a Connected Orange Peel

Rotating a Skewed Design Before Baseline, Saving Workspace, Talking Through Connections in Designer if Need Be,

Removing the Line Drawing When Done - Use Designer to Do That / Final Thoughts

Pre-Session Chatter and Some Tech Tips from Mr. MK

Issues and Solutions with Leaders

Issues and Solutions with Leaders / Continued

Bobbin Tension Issues, E2E Favorites from My Creative Stitches/Christy Dillon

Christy Favorites Continued, HQF vs. QLI File Formats, Image Generation and File Formats Courtesy of Mr. MK, QPI Update Hints

File Formats that Our PS Systems Read, Reposition Zero Reminder, Caution with QPI and Keywording,

Frame Blocks Options, Custom Cropping Vs. Fill Trim Blocks Vs. Frames, Review of Anita Shackelford's Fill Trim Blocks

Explanation of Custom Cropping on Regular E2E Type Pattern, Interruption of Stitch Path

Custom E2E Built in Quadrants Instead of Rows, Converting a Simple Shape from a Design to An Area using PSD,

Explanation of Trace Area (Optional, Not Required) and Post-Session Chatter

01 - Tightness of the Quilt on our Rails, Standard Load Compared to Clear View Load

02 - Bobbin Winding / Avoiding a lop-sided Bobbin Wind

03 - Oiling the Machine/Avoid Over-oiling, Stopping for the Day in the Middle of an Edge to Edge

04 - Stopping for the Day in the Middle of an Edge to Edge (Continued)

05 - Specialty Type E2E Design/My Creative Stitches

06 - Specialty Type E2E Design/My Creative Stitches (Continued)

07 - Avoiding Cropping Snafu when Cropping with 537 // Advanced Technique (Connected Edge to Edge)

08 - Avoiding Cropping Snafu (Continued)

09 - Additional Content for Connected E2E / Using Prostitcher Designer (Opening and Saving Option)

10 - Avoiding Cropping Snafu (Continued), Straight Line Issues with Thread Shredding

Q&A Webinar Notes 5/2/22

Oiling the Needlebar (NO), Paul Explains Oils and Greases, Custom Pricing Scenario and MK's Advice

Skew Triangle (Tips if Skew Triangle Seems NOT to Work)

Skew Triangle Options Continued, Rotating Area in Order to Skew

Layout, Rendering and Stitchout Steps from a Large Judy Niemeyer, Paper-Pieced Quilt, Simple Shapes to Start Layout

JN Quilt Continued, Setting Up the Outside Edge to Edge, Cropping Out of the Inside Circle Area

JN Quilt Continued, Setting Triangles Using Carousel Tool in PSD, Push Created Carousel Back to PSP, Using Stretch Alighnment Function in PSP

JN Quilt Continued, Building a Custom Area to Built the Inside Edge to Edge, Starting the Custom Area with Designer Not Prostitcher, Using the Line Tool to Create Custom Shape, Assigning Stitches to Save As Area, Open Area in PSP

JN Quilt Continued, What to Do if Your Sim Crashes Like Mine Did, Save File from PSD, Reboot PSP Sim, Repeat Inside E2E, Crop Using the Custom Area That Started in PSD, Explaining New Start and End for Stitching

JN Quilt Continued, Final Thoughts about Start and End Points and Marking Custom Areas at the Stitching Steps, Final Thoughts about the Stitchout

Thoughts about Custom Digital Designs Sets Created for Judy Niemeyer (Quiltworx) Quilts

Q and A with MK / 05-23-2022 Part 01 / Options for Moving Your Frame,

05-23-2022 / Part 02 / Creating and Connecting a Motif for use in a Border, Repeating in PSP, Connecting in PSD, Altering the Connection

05-23-2022 / Part 03 / Adding a P2P to the Motif Then Connecting Them

05-23-2022 / Part 04 / Creating the Border through Repeat in PSP, Sending Designs Back and Forth between PSP and PSD, Clearning and Saving Issues While Using the Send Feature,

05-23-2022 / Part 05 / Working on a Corner Using Duplication and Cropping, Prostitcher Designer (Included or Not) - An Explanation

05-23-2022 / Part 06 / Fixing the Gap Distance on an E2E Once You've Basedlined and Started Stitching

05-23-2022 / Part 07 / Using the Nudge Feature as an Option, Expanding on Connected E2E with this Bossa Nova Pattern,

05-23-2022 / Part 08 / Fixing the Grouping Situation in Designer on Connected E2E Designs, Moving Start Points to the Top Before Stitching, Connecting Flying Geese Units

05-23-2022 / Part 09, Clearing Area and Connecting in PSD, Evaluating Start and Stop Position, Option for Breaking Down the Long Border to Minimize Shrinkage

05-23-2022 / Part 10 / Using Crop Start/End to Break Down Border, Stitch in One Direction, then the Other; Hint and Heads up on my Dream Bigger Course

Pre-Session Chatter

Ellen Shares Tips for Crosshatch Background Fill on a Large Block

Crosshatch Background Fill Continued

Ellen Shares about Her Dream Big Panel Project

Paul Talks Hook and Basket

Paul Talk Hook and Basket Continued

Paul Talks Hook and Basket Continued

6/7/2022 Webinar Notes

Custom Cropping using Piano Keys (in a Custom Configuration) as Opposed to a Fill/Trim Block

Mark and Record to Trace Designs, Creating the Piano Keys, Grouping the Piano Keys - 1 Group to Fit the Top of th Block/1 Group to Fit the Bottom of the Block

Using The Same or Different Piano Keys as Fills, Creating a Custom Area using PSD and Drawing Tools as Oppose to Multi Point Marking in PSP, Discussion of Pre-Loading a Quilt in Order to Trace (by Mark and Record) a Custom Shape

Chatter about the Next Q&A w/Focus on Small Business Discussion, Q&A Surrounding Multiple Unique Shapes and Using Piano Keys Instead of Fill Blocks,

Overview of Using the Backdrop Tool in PS Designer to Trace a Custom Shape, Using the Drawing Tools in PSD to Trace, Changing the Traced Shape to an Area To Be Able to Fill, Area/Select to Rotate an Area in PSP, Filling Custom Shape with E2E

Working with Wide Rule Straight Line P2P Designs

Working in PSD, Wide Rule Continued, Fine Tuning How many Lines of the Repeat We Have, Review of UnGroup, ReOrdering (In Other Words Readjusting Stitch Order), Using Ctrl Left Bracket on Your Keyboard to Adjust Stitch Order, Back to PSP to Repeat

Create a Table Runner with the Wide Rule Set and a Block and a Triangle

Offset Edge to Edge using the Wrap Feature

Connecting Non-P2P Designs using PSD and the Drawing Tools

Connecting Non-P2P Designs Continued

Webinar Notes - 6/27/22

Webinar Notes 7/11/2022

Pre-Session Chatter

Brief Q&A, Cropping at the Bottom of the Quilt, Saving Tips

Q&A Continued / Stopping Mid Pass and Repositioning Easily the Next Day, Using Thicker Thread on Moxie to Mimic Sashiko Stitching, Moxie Settings for Baste

Introductions, MK Quilts History, Guess Presenter No 01, John Consolino - Business and Accounting Consultant

John Consolino Continued / Business and Accounting

Bill White - Insurance Professional

Bill White - Insurance Considerations Continued

Jeff and Diane Hissong, MKQ Machine Owners and Successful Small Business Owners

Pricing Considerations for Your Longarm Quilting Business

Pricing Considerations-Continued, Recording Stitch Count and Time Counts on the Newer Machines, Final Thoughts

Pre-Session Chatter

Discussion on Loading/Floating Quilt Tops

Custom Cropping Using Circle Block and a Rubberband Area

Custom Cropping Continued

Custom Cropping Continued, Offsetting an Area from the Seam Lines - Using Your Hopping Foot as a Guide

Selecting and Resizing an Area, Creating an Area in PSD by Isolating Part of a Design using Split Line

Creating Custom Area Continued, Saving the Custom Shape as an Area, Opening the Area in PSP, Resizing the Custom Area

Filling the Custom Area, Trace Area or Save the Custom Area as a Design, The Pro-Stitcher Trace Function

Short Discussion on Text/Fonts - More to Come on This, What's Coming up on MKQU?

Q&A Webinar Notes 7/25/2022

Pre-Session Chatter

Working with and Connecting Text 1) Text in PS Designer

Joining Text w/PS Designer using the Weld Tool

Stitching the Text, Created in Designer, in Pro-Stitcher 2) Option, Building Textg Using P2P Alphabets in PSP, Crop start/end before stitching

Battling Edge to Edge Drift

Battling Drift Continued

Battling Drift Cotinued/Final Option, Things to Consider with Shrink on Inside Fit Technique

The PS History Function and Issues with the Tablet. Clearning History and Some Tablet Information from Mr. MK

Replacing Tablets or Not / Info from Mr. MK

Tablet Compatabilities and Tech Training Tier on MKQU - More Good info from Mr. MK, How to Schedule Live Remote Support w/Mr. MK

Tech Training Continued, Review of What MK has in the way of new Content

Pre-Session Chatter

Bobbins - Expanded and Out of Shape,

Straight Line Ditching with Mark and Record, Quilt Submissions for MK to Help With

Offset Edge to Edge - How to Set Them Up, Tips on Stitching Them Out

Offset E2E Continued

Offset E2E Continued

Offset E2E Continued, More about Straight Line Ditching - Mark and Record but Vertically

Slack in the Bobbin Case and How to Deal with That, MK Customer Quilt Tips and Tricks from Set Up to Stitchout

MK Customer Quilt Continued

MK Customer Quilt Continued, Update on Up and Coming Content Here on MKQU

Pre-Session Chatter

Issues with Needle Alignment - Specficially While Couching and How to Address or Fix This, Other Couching Tips

Couching Continued: Shorten Stitches Per Inch, Bobbin Winder Issues: Adjusting the External Shaft on the Winder so Bobbins Fit Snuggly

Machine Settings: Regulated, Manual, Precision and Cruise What these are when would they be used

Machine settings continued

Needle Up/Needle Down position settings and How Needle Up/Needle Down works in Combination with Pro-Stitcher, Additional Info about Cruise Settings and Percentages

Edge to Edge for Newbies Review - Running out of Design Rows at the Bottom of a Quilt

E2E Review Continued

E2E Review Continued

Final Thoughts on E2E, Resizing Designs and How that Affects Design Points

Changing Stitch Length on Designs in Designer (This is not the same as Stitch Length in PSP)

Let Love Grow Placemats / My Approach to Layout and Rendering then Stitch-Out

Placemats Continued and Final Thoughts

Pre-session Chatter

What is Closed and Open Crop and When & How Is It Used

Cropping Continued Specificially with Inside E2E

Wrapping and Cropping Continued, Choosing Designs for Inside E2E

Inside Fit Discussion Continued, Questions about Inability to Alight or Functions Grayed Out, Start and Points In the Wrong Position/How to Correct That

Correcting Start and Stops Continued

Correcting Start and Stops Continued

Explanation of the Touch Button in the Display Options and How that Affects Other Functions, Discussion of thread Break Sensor and Alarm

Finding New Start Point on an Over-Stitched Design

Choosing Backing and Designs, Working With Designers for Custom Designs

Backing Options and Batting Options

Pre-Session Chatter

Settings for Free-Motion (Specifically while doing Ruler Work)

Discussion and Examples Surrounding the Baseline Function. What it Does. When to Use It.

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Baseline Continued

Pro-Stitcher Lite and How Some of These Steps, Covered Tonight, Are Affected and/or Are Done in PSL

Pre-Session Chatter

Discussion about Problems and Issues with Monofilament Thread

Monofilament Discussion Continued, Discussion on the "Discussion" Area of MKQU

Bobbil Case (Hook and Basket) Oiling,

File Management / File Explorer / QPI -- Have a Plan-Work the Plan

File Management Continued / Task Bar Management, Existing Folder Structure

Thoughts About Creating New Folders and Where to Save New Folders, Quilt Pattern Indexer (QPI) and How It Looks Like the File Structure from File Explorer

Creating Folders Using PSP Only

Creating Folders Using File Explorer and Aided by QPI

Continue Populating Folder Using QPI Aided by Keyword Searches

Thoughts about Restructuring your Folder Structure, Transfering the Folder to a USB Stick

QPI, Taking it to the Next Level, Correcting Images that aren't Appearing Correctly, Discussion Surrounding Coordinates and How Coordinates Work in Combination Between PSP and QPI

Repositioning and Resaving Designs to Correct the Image in QPI, Discussion about how these Steps Affect Keywords in QPI, The QPI Update - Where We Are and Potential Inclusions (or not) for Current Owners

01 Pre-session chatter

Using the Correct Oil on Our Machines, a QPI Update

Inside Fit E2E Review

Inside Fit E2E Continued

Inside Fit E2E Final, Crosshatch Blocks and Options

Crosshatch Continued

Crosshatch Continued

Building a Border and Corner Unit

Building a Border and Corner Unit Continued, Announcement: Guest Presenter Next Q&A

Pre-Session Chatter

Part 02

Part 03

Part 04 E2E Scenario Where Start and Stops are at the Bottom of the Passes instead of the Top

Part 05 E2E Start Points at the Bottom Continued

Part 06

Part 07

Part 08

Part 09

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Part 13

Mystery Reveal - Layout #01 / Part 01

Layout #1 / Part 02

Layout #1 / Part 03

Layout #1 / Part 04

Layout #1 / Part 05

Layout #1 / Part 06

Layout #1 / Part 07

Layout #1 / Part 08

Layout #1 / Part 09

Layout #1 / Part 10

Q&A between Layout 1 and 2

Layout #2 / Part 01

Layout #2 / Part 02

Layout #2 / Part 03

Part 01 - Pre-Session Chatter

Part 02

Part 03

Part 04

Part 05

File Types Explained - Downloadable File

Part 06

Part 07

Part 08

Part 09

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Part 13