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Insert Fabric Flattening Stitches - Advanced

This tutorial demonstrates how to insert fabric flattening stitches in Embird Editor to prevent thin lettering from sinking into soft fabrics. These subtle, stabilizing stitches use a thread color similar to the fabric and are added prior to the main embroidery. The process involves opening a design, accessing the menu item, selecting a stitch shape, and configuring parameters like inflation and cavity settings. Finally, a fill pattern is chosen, and the flattening stitches are inserted into the design workspace.

1 - Run Embird and click "Editor" menu to switch to Editor window.

2 - Open some design using "File > Open" menu, for example open free design "elephant.dst" (Picture no. 1).

1. Open design using "File > Open" menu

Open design using "File > Open" menu

3 - Select menu "Insert > Fabric Flattening Stitches" menu (Picture No. 2).

2. Select menu "Insert > Fabric Flattening Stitches" menu

Select menu "Insert > Fabric Flattening Stitches" menu

4 - Choose the shape of fabric flatenning stitches (Picture No. 3).

3. Choose the shape of fabric flatenning stitches

Specify "Shape" of fabric flatenning stitches

5 - Specify parameters of flattening stitches such as inflate, optional cavity and how the jump stitches are treated (Picture No. 4).

4. Specify parameters of flattening stitches

Specify parameters of flattening stitches

6 - In the next dialog choose "Fill > Plain Fill > Fill 1" pattern type. After a short while, flatenning stitches are inserted into Editor (Picture No. 5).

5. Flatenning stitches are inserted into Editor

Flatenning stitches are inserted into Editor

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