Placing Designs on clothes
Carol, my understanding is that you want to place multiple hoopings across the front of a garment. Without buying any accessory except a disappearing ink pen, you might try this:
Open the design on screen,
Go to End,
Change color,
Manual stitch with very big stitches a " box " shape around the perimeter of your design.
SAVE,
Go back a color,
selects on
go to start
and cut your original design,
then paste it back on top of the rectangle
then SAVE when it is placed correctly.
(If you care about screen colors, you just messed up your sequence but just go change color designation boxes if you want to fix that).
Mark the garment with the exact placement of designs you want, drawing the " box " shape for the design stitching area using disappearing ink. (I do hope you meant normal size hoop to do this!) Go ahead and hoop up, trying to center the ink box the very best you can.
You will now stitch an exact outline box before design stitching will occur. You can eyeball and move the on-screen hoop to get it right, or even select and move the design on screen. Only re-hoop if you are very crooked. Do the routine as many times as it take to place the thread box on the ink box. By all means, SAVE or SAVE AS before you stitch for real, and pull out the " box " threads before changing color to to the real design so the outline doesn't make a thread clip nightmare. This technique also works to just do a straight line when all you care about is getting a design on straight.
Mary
I have had very good luck by stitching out the design and then
tracing it with permament marker onto a piece of clear vinyl or
transparency also trace the outline of the hoop. cut out the template on the outside of the hoop marking. you can place the design where you want it and secure it where you want with a spritz of KK2000. Re- hoop the fabric until it lines up with the template. I made a vest with Cactus Punch cut-work abstract design going all around the front center and across the bottom to the side. It was easy and accurate. Hope you can make sense of what I'm trying to say.
Cissy
I was having trouble getting my design exactly where I wanted it until I
decided to make a template to use. DH had some acetate sheets for an
overhead projector that I used. First, I took my interior hoop
and used liquid paper to mark the center points on each side. Then I
laid that on top of the acetate and with a permanent marker indicated
where each side point was. Off with the hoop, draw a lateral line and
horizontal line, from one side mark to the other. I am planning on
making 2, one cut to fit a little smaller than the inside of my hoop and
the second I will leave a larger size. I figured by using the grid that
comes in the software and then my home-made template, my placements
should work out a lot better!!
Linda Waggoner
DH made the template with a square of clear plastic, 1/8 inch thick
and larger than the hoop. He scribed the inside of the hoop onto the
plastic, then cut the plastic out. The thread holder on the hoop acted as a key so you know which way is upright, however it is neccessary to mark one side of the plastic as " top " . Next, he took and using the grids option in the CS II software, he established the center of the hoop and then marked lines horizontally and vertically from the center. Then mounted fabric in the hoop and stitched out the pattern.
Without removing the fabric from the hoop, he placed the plastic back
inside, he drew horizontal and vertical reference lines on the plastic
marking the center. This gave us a unique template that allows us to establish the center and horizontal reference easily.
Sounds more complicated to write than do!
Kellilynn
To center on a sweatshirt or t-shirt, I turn the shirt inside out first. I match the side and shoulder seams and then fold in half to find the center of the garment. Press to mark center line.
Donna Lee
Easiest way is to place the back of the sweatshirt over the poem and you now have nothing in the way. Just stretch it from the neck a little won't hurt it a bit and put the back portion over the poem.
Anonymous
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