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Double needle topstitch

Double needle topstitch - Illustrator Tutorial

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Double needle topstitch

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to make a double needle topstitch brush. I've started with the Missy Start file that we created earlier. We're going to go up to Window and open our brushes. And you'll notice that Illustrator comes with some basic brushes and again, just to clean up our workspace, we're going to select them and delete them. And now, let's make our own brush. A double needle topstitch brush, we have a rough idea of the size because we've already made stitches. We're going to make the stitch for this brush two points long and the best way to gauge the size of the shape is to use the Line Segment Tool. So, we'll click on the Line Segment Tool, click once on the page and it opens up the options box. We're going to type in two points and we're going to make the angle zero degrees and click OK. And this is going to give us a very tiny, little line segment, so let's zoom in. We want to change the line weight to .25 because we've already determine that that's the…

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