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AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay. Now, I'm going to set my image up to trace it onto the screen. And
I've got my embroidery hoop, the screen is stretched. I've got it in the orientation
that it will be on the shirt or the paper, right, which is the flat side down. The screen's
not up in the air, it's down. I've got my image behind it, but I've also got my image
squared up so that I know that, you know, I mean, you know, I'm working with a circular
hoop and kind of a square squeegee, so, I mean, I can't get the squeegee all the way
up to the edge, right? But the point is, is I've got my image set up where I know that
I can get my squeegee in there and I could do it across the whole image in one pull,
all right? And if I can't, then I need to just readjust kind of where the hoop is in
relation to the image. So let's try this, yeah. So there I can get it in one pull so
that's good. So let me just try it one more time just to make sure that, yup, perfect.
So what I'm going to do now is, I have--if you can see, I've got this image printed out.
This is just another copy of the same one. It's underneath the screen. And I'm just going
to take my pen, this is just kind of a fine tip, felt tip pen, you know? You can use a
really, really fine tipped thing. You don't want the ink to bleed. It kind of doesn't
matter 'cause all you're doing is tracing a design. But you can even use pencil if you
want. I'm just going to get in and I'm just going to be careful. Like tracing anything
else, you don't want to move the screen. I'm just going to go around and trace all the
elements of the image so I have something to work with when I put the glue on. So that's
what I'm going to do now.