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Having Dude sit with me and go through the embroidery software has been ENORMOUS.
#1: There’s a project he’d been thinking of doing. Something goofy, to amuse a coworker. Specific thing, would be funny. Not like, a lot riding on the outcome.
#2: He could confirm for me that the program is, in fact, annoyingly glitchy. He figured out the workarounds for some of the glitches. Other ones, I had figured out and could show him. This was great because he: respects my competence, understands my frustrations, validates my feelings, and is very, very good at figuring things out so discovered things I would not have. Helps that he knows vector illustration programs, how glitches in programs tend to happen, and also has limited knowledge of sewing/thread arts that he absorbed osmotically from a childhood as a tailor’s son.
#3: He totally overengineered the simple thing he wanted to do, and in so doing, discovered a lot of tricks for how to make the damn software do what he wanted.
It’s a little maddening because I want him to just stitch his project out so I can see how it worked, but. On the other hand. If he’s going to spend six hours on this, he might as well spend six hours on this.
Long story short if anyone wants a small embroidered patch of the “thonking” emoji I’m about to have the files to make a great one.
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Having Dude sit with me and go through the embroidery software has been ENORMOUS.
#1: There’s a project he’d been thinking of doing. Something goofy, to amuse a coworker. Specific thing, would be funny. Not like, a lot riding on the outcome.
#2: He could confirm for me that the program is, in fact, annoyingly glitchy. He figured out the workarounds for some of the glitches. Other ones, I had figured out and could show him. This was great because he: respects my competence, understands my frustrations, validates my feelings, and is very, very good at figuring things out so discovered things I would not have. Helps that he knows vector illustration programs, how glitches in programs tend to happen, and also has limited knowledge of sewing/thread arts that he absorbed osmotically from a childhood as a tailor’s son.
#3: He totally overengineered the simple thing he wanted to do, and in so doing, discovered a lot of tricks for how to make the damn software do what he wanted.
It’s a little maddening because I want him to just stitch his project out so I can see how it worked, but. On the other hand. If he’s going to spend six hours on this, he might as well spend six hours on this.
Long story short if anyone wants a small embroidered patch of the “thonking” emoji I’m about to have the files to make a great one.
(Your picture was not posted)
