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 the "Editor" menu to switch to the Editor window.

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

1. Open design using "File > Open" menu

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

2. Select "Insert > Fabric Flattening Stitches" menu

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

3. Choose the shape of fabric flattening stitches

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

4. Specify parameters of flattening stitches

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

5. Flattening stitches are inserted into Editor

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