Splitting - Using Initial and Ending Stitch Boxes

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

Embroidery design splitting is a technique used to break down large embroidery patterns into smaller, more manageable pieces. This is done so the design can be stitched out on machines with smaller hoop sizes or to better accommodate the fabric or item being embroidered. It is commonly used when the design is too big to fit in a single hoop or needs to be applied across different parts of a garment.

This tutorial explains how to split a design using the initial and ending stitch boxes. The Initial Stitch and Ending Stitch boxes are located on the Main Toolbar at the top of the Editor window. They allow you to specify the first stitch number and the last stitch number of a selection. This selection can then be separated from the main object.

Note: Other ways of splitting are explained in the following tutorials: Interactive Free-Hand Splitting, Split Before/After Color, Separate Color, Auto-Split, Auto-Split Along Hoop Boundaries and Saving and Sewing of Split Designs

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

2 - Select the "File > Open" menu to open the design that you want to split.

3 - In this example, we want to split the design below into two parts: the dog and the barrier. The barrier has colors different from the dog colors. Set "Initial Stitch" to 1. To find the last stitch of the dog (which is the same as the initial stitch of the barrier), click several times on the "To Next Color" button, which is located to the right of the "Ending Stitch" box. The selected part of the embroidery, i.e., stitches 1 to 6668, is drawn in red (Picture No. 1).

1. Setting Ending stitch

4 - Once the stitches are selected, click the "Split" button to separate the red selection into an individual object (Picture No. 2).

2. Separate the red selection

5 - Now there are two independent objects in the work area - the dog and the barrier - as you can see on the Objects Order Bar at the right side of the screen (Picture No. 3). To save the first object (dog) into a file, click the left mouse button on this part. This will select the object.

6 - Use the "File > Save Selected As" command to save the selected object to a file on your disk. Specify the format and the file name of the new design in the dialog boxes that appear on the screen.

3. Separated objects

7 - Click the left mouse button on the barrier object to select it.

8 - Use the "File > Save Selected As" command to save this object to a file on your disk. Specify the format and the file name of the new design in the dialog boxes that appear on the screen.

9 - When finished, use the "File > Exit" menu to exit the Editor.

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