Be Creative With Your Mach 3
Introduction
You own the most powerful longarm in the industry – Use it that way! “Be Creative With your Mach 3": Creating & Modifying Designs With The Innova AutoPilot Mach 3™” is not just a title! It is a way of enhancing your quilts!
So why is "Be Creative" in an entirely separate training book? Although the Advanced Training Autopilot Mach3 book touches briefly on the DRAW function, the purpose of that course was to get an owner "up and running" on their longarm. The DRAW function in combination with many other functions takes an owner into the creative designing area of the software that not everyone may be interested in trying, at least not right away.
The Draw function, when combined with EndSnap, Split, Wreath, Morph and others give you the ability to work on those challenging quilts where the quilt and the design do not line up, as well as creating new designs from scratch, combining existing designs, and altering existing designs to your requirements. Using these techniques you can succeed in even the most difficult situations.
The self-study course begins with basic concepts of longarm designs and continues through thirteen exercise that have been created from actual instances that Ruth has encountered. These thirteen exercises provide a working knowledge of the building blocks to provide a basis for your imagination to run wild.
The exercises create the building-blocks to create the most intricate designs without purchasing additional designing software. “Be Creative With Your Mach 3” is the second of Ruth’s self-study, multi-media training sets. It has: thirteen exercises; a 104 page Workbook with 290 illustrations; a 3 ½ hours of video; and a project stick with all of the needed information for the exercises. It focuses on modifying, combining, and creating designs with the Mach 3’s Draw, and related designing, functions. Please note: The "Be Creative With your Mach3" training manual and USB drive is not sold separately. It is sold as a bundle along with the "Advanced Training Autopilot Mach3" materials. This self-study course is comprised of materials that are:
The Draw function, when combined with EndSnap, Split, Wreath, Morph and others give you the ability to work on those challenging quilts where the quilt and the design do not line up, as well as creating new designs from scratch, combining existing designs, and altering existing designs to your requirements. Using these techniques you can succeed in even the most difficult situations.
The self-study course begins with basic concepts of longarm designs and continues through thirteen exercise that have been created from actual instances that Ruth has encountered. These thirteen exercises provide a working knowledge of the building blocks to provide a basis for your imagination to run wild.
The exercises create the building-blocks to create the most intricate designs without purchasing additional designing software. “Be Creative With Your Mach 3” is the second of Ruth’s self-study, multi-media training sets. It has: thirteen exercises; a 104 page Workbook with 290 illustrations; a 3 ½ hours of video; and a project stick with all of the needed information for the exercises. It focuses on modifying, combining, and creating designs with the Mach 3’s Draw, and related designing, functions. Please note: The "Be Creative With your Mach3" training manual and USB drive is not sold separately. It is sold as a bundle along with the "Advanced Training Autopilot Mach3" materials. This self-study course is comprised of materials that are:
- A 104 page, full color workbook
- 13 Exercises
- An Overview of longarm design
- 290 illustrations
- Nine extra videos
- Five designs that are incorporated in the Exercises
- Four pictures from which to build or modify designs
- 13 MP4 videos lasting 3.7 hours of the AutoPilot Mach 3 screens covering the Forward/Introduction as well as listening to the author walk you through the thirteen Exercises, matching the Workbook step-by-step
- Two fifteen minute sessions of phone or on-line Technical Support for assistance with the materials.
Sample Page & Video
The following is provided so that you can get a feel for our materials and training style: [The video last 2:75 minutes]
Table of Contents
The Table of Contents provides a good, high-level, orientation on the topics:
Single User License Forward – Initial Instructions Overview – Fundamentals Of Longarm Designs Exercise 1 – Pop-Up Menus, Segments, Nodes Exercise 2 – Create A Design By Tracing A Picture Exercise 3 – Making A Design Into A Border Exercise 4 – Substituting An Object In An Existing Design Exercise 5 – Letters & Connecting Exercise 6 – Increasing Complexity & Symmetry With Wreath Exercise 7 – Correcting Trimming Abnormalities In E2E Designs Exercise 8 – Creating Symmetry With Copy Exercise 9 – Adjusting For Poorly Pieced Blocks Exercise 10 – Designing For Unusual Blocks Exercise 11 - Removing An Object From An E2E & Making It A Border Exercise 12 - Making a Border-Corner Exercise 13 - Hiding Tails & Repositioning Points & Making A Block Into A Border Error Feedback & Evaluation Forms
Single User License Forward – Initial Instructions Overview – Fundamentals Of Longarm Designs Exercise 1 – Pop-Up Menus, Segments, Nodes Exercise 2 – Create A Design By Tracing A Picture Exercise 3 – Making A Design Into A Border Exercise 4 – Substituting An Object In An Existing Design Exercise 5 – Letters & Connecting Exercise 6 – Increasing Complexity & Symmetry With Wreath Exercise 7 – Correcting Trimming Abnormalities In E2E Designs Exercise 8 – Creating Symmetry With Copy Exercise 9 – Adjusting For Poorly Pieced Blocks Exercise 10 – Designing For Unusual Blocks Exercise 11 - Removing An Object From An E2E & Making It A Border Exercise 12 - Making a Border-Corner Exercise 13 - Hiding Tails & Repositioning Points & Making A Block Into A Border Error Feedback & Evaluation Forms
Suggested Prerequisites
This is an advanced course. Before taking this course, you should have a physical and basic knowledge of your Innova and its computer/monitor.
These include:
These include:
- Common knowledge of computers
- USB Drives
- Running programs
- Using File Explorer to find files
- Cut/Copy/Paste
- Mouse, buttons, and roller bar
- Running AutoPilot for an edge-to-edge quilt
- A familiarity with all of the AutoPilot Mach 3 Functions as explained in "Advanced Training AutoPilot Mach 3".