copyright Karen Hinrichs, 2011 all rights reserved Adding Stops and Stitches Page 1 of 5 Adding Stops and Stitches to make Applique from Ordinary

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1 all rights reserved Adding Stops and Stitches Page 1 of 5 5D Embroidery Extra Adding Stops and Stitches to make Applique from Ordinary Karen Hinrichs Lee in Tampa asked: Is there a way to take a design I have purchased, and make it into an applique, so that I can stop and cut around it, put on a back, before the satin stitch around it sews? I don't know how to add a stop command. Any help would be appreciated. I have 5D Extra. Yes, Lee, you can do this! There are easier ways -- it's easier if you have the Design Enhancer package too, which includes Stitch Editor -- but you can do it in 5D Embroidery Extra. Let's do a quick tutorial with a design that is in the sample files: It sounds like your design has satin stitch outlines at the end anyway, so we don't have to find any tricks to make a satin stitch outline for your design. To try this process out, open 5D Embroidery Extra and click the Design Viewer icon (blue camera). Navigate to this folder: 5DEmbroidery\Samples\Organizer\Stitch\Flowers Choose the design named "Outline Flowers.vp3." It's in the second row.

2 all rights reserved Adding Stops and Stitches Page 2 of 5 You want to learn how to add a stop command to your design so that you can trim away fabric before the satin stitches sew and it's likely that you will want to add some running stitches too because you say you would like to put something behind your design before the satin stitches. There are three flowers in this design, but we're going to work with only one of them. I know there are no fill stitches in this design, but it has the necessary elements to do what you want to learn to do, plus it's a fairly simple, contained design. I think it has an added bonus -- it will be a fun little "freestanding" design to use if you keep it! Zoom in so that the design fills the hoop. Be sure there's a selection box around the design. Click to the Edit tab (if your design is ghosted, you have more than one design on your screen, and don't have a selection box around this one on the Design tab.) Using your favorite selection method, select two of the flowers and delete them. Box select will handle the blue and pink flowers real easily! (If you'd like to keep them on screen and do them too to practice, that's okay too -- I won't be upset! It might be easier to have only one at a time) You may have a stray stitch outside your remaining flower. If you like, you can move into the flower -- but that's not part of the exercise! Now zoom even tighter, to see only the flower that's left (I know people who don t like to zoom in and I don't get it: being able to see really well is cool!)

3 all rights reserved Adding Stops and Stitches Page 3 of 5 Drag the slider on the bar marked START all the way to the right. Click back one stitch using the back arrow button on the left end. You'll see only the very last stitch in the design. Seeing this stitch may be easier if you turn off the grid In the Modify area of the Control Panel, you'll see an Insert Stitches button. Click it. Now click on your lonely stitch on the work area, and move your mouse close to the edge of the work area. See the string on your "finger" -- that's more thread. Each time you click your mouse on the work area, you'll get another stitch. Left click two or three times, way out there, not too close together, but not real far apart, then right click. Right clicking turns off the stitch insertion. (You may not be able to see the last click you did, but it s there!) Now, up in the Display buttons, click the Draw All Stitches button. The entire flower comes back, and you have a couple of "crazy" stitches at the end of the design. This is good! Next to Insert Stitches is the "Insert Color Change" button. Click that, and then click one of those last two stitches that you just made. A color selector window comes up, and you can pick any color you like that's not already in the design -- I'm working with the yellow flower, and chose red, because it contrasts with the yellow and I'll be able to see what I'm doing next! Choose the Insert Stitches button again. When you click on the last stitch the first red one you'll see that you have that string on your finger thing again, and that's good pick a spot along the satin stitch of the flower petals and start clicking very frequently along the satin in the center of the satin line each click is a

4 all rights reserved Adding Stops and Stitches Page 4 of 5 stitch, and if they're really far apart, your stitch length will be really long. If you click somewhere you didn't mean to, just keep going. You can do more insert stitches later, or move individual stitches into line later. You'll make a tangled line of stitching if you try to back up, go forward, etc. Right click when your line is done. If you don t see the new stitches, click the Draw All Stitches button again. (You can go around twice if you want to. That might be extra secure.) If you need to take a break during the process for some reason, click one last time out in the blank area of the work space before you right-click. This will make picking up where you left off easier, since the end stitch isn t buried among the satin stitches! Okay -- the work is done! You can move those outside stitches we used to get started more easily back into the design. Then, one last step, because you want those running stitches and that stop to stitch BEFORE the satin, not after! Click the "Change Order of Color Blocks" button (also in the Modify area) and move the color you added to stitch before the satin outline. In this case, we're talking about at the beginning of the flower design. If you really like this flower, and would like to also have a placement line as well as the tack down line we've just created, hide the other colors, copy the running line, and paste it in. Give it another color, so that you don't inadvertently color-sort it out!

5 all rights reserved Adding Stops and Stitches Page 5 of 5 A note about my copyright: This document is not to be shared without permission from me contact me at kanomarie@gmail.com Thanks to Lee, who asked about adding a stop command and inspired this. The Fine Print: Products referred to in this document are 5D Embroidery Extra A 2010 KSIN Luxembourg II, S.ar.l. All rights reserved. 4D and 5D are trademarks of KSIN Luxembourg II, S.ar.l. HUSQVARNA is the trademark of Husqvarna AB. All trademarks are used under license by VSM Group AB. All other product and company names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners All screen captures are from one or more of the above products and are used with permission. This software product can only be purchased through an authorized Husqvarna Viking or Pfaff dealer. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Inc. Products of this company which may be referred to include Windows 7 operating system. Other product names that may be mentioned in this text may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged. Information provided here is presented in good faith, but no warranty is given, nor results guaranteed.