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    Tutorials

    Intro to Whizzy Needle

    Learn the basics of Wizzy Needle, the newest version of TurtleStitch: How to Stitch a Line!
     

     
    Challenge: Create a simple embroidery figure, even something as simple as a square or other polygon.  Or just explore using a combination of forward and turn commands.  If you find yourself repeating bits of the script, wrap those in a repeat.  Save your work and try to render it on the machine. 
     

    How to Stitch a Snowflake

    Building your own blocks: how to reuse a design.
     
     
    Challenge:  Create a snowflake!  Perhaps use your pattern from the first challenge, and  use it to create a total turtle trip. But put your design in a block and then repeated the block six times.  Make a block called ‘EarthSnowFlake” that draws your entire snowflake. Make a snowflake from Mars — their snowflakes are 10 sided…. Create a block.  Now populate your space with a mix of earth and mars snowflakes. Take care to stay inside the space available for the embroidery frame.
     
     

    Scaling Your Design

    Scaling your design:  how to use a variable.
     
     
    Challenge:  pick one of your designs so far, or perhaps create another one.  Scale it.  Put it in a block.  You’ll have to explore on your own how to give the block a parameter (or ask!) .   Now that you have a block that will scale your design, populate the embroidery area with different sized designs.
     
    A shout-out for these coding instruction videos to  Byte Sized Computing

     

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