Chapter 6
Embroidery Edit
EXPLANATION OF FUNCTIONS..................264
SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT..................265
Selecting Embroidery Patterns/Brother “Exclusives”/Greek
Alphabet Patterns/Floral Alphabet Patterns/Utility Embroidery
Patterns/Frame Patterns.................................................. 266
Selecting Alphabet Character Patterns............................ 266
EDITING PATTERNS.....................................268
■ Key Functions.........................................................................269
Moving the Pattern......................................................... 270
Rotating the Pattern........................................................ 270
Changing the Size of the Pattern..................................... 270
Changing the Pattern Size While Maintaining the Desired
Thread Density (Stitch Recalculator) .............................. 270
Deleting the Pattern........................................................ 272
Displaying Patterns in the Screen Magnified by 200%... 272
Changing the Configuration of Alphabet Character
Patterns...................................................................273
Changing Alphabet Character Spacing............................ 273
Reducing Character Spacing........................................... 274
Separating Combined Character Patterns....................... 275
Changing the Color of Each Alphabet Character in a
Pattern....................................................................276
Embroidering Linked Characters..................................... 277
Changing the Thread Color............................................. 277
Creating a Custom Thread Table..................................... 278
■ Adding a Color to the Custom Thread Table from the List.....280
■ Saving the Custom Thread Table to USB media......................280
■ Recalling the Custom Thread Table data from USB media.....281
Choosing a Color from the Custom Thread Table........... 282
Find New Color Schemes With the Color Shuffling
Function..................................................................283
Designing Repeated Patterns .......................................... 285
■ Sewing Repeated Patterns......................................................285
■ Repeating One Element of a Repeated Pattern.......................287
■ Color Sorting Repeated Patterns.............................................289
■ Assigning Thread Marks..........................................................290
Embroidering the Pattern Repeatedly ............................. 291
Duplicating a Pattern...................................................... 293
After Editing.................................................................... 294
COMBINING PATTERNS..............................295
Editing Combined Patterns.............................................. 295
■ Selecting combined embroidery patterns...............................297
Sewing Combined Patterns............................................. 298
VARIOUS EMBROIDERING FUNCTIONS....299
Uninterrupted Embroidering (Using a Single Color) ....... 299
Basting Embroidery......................................................... 299
Creating an Appliqué Piece............................................. 300
■ Creating an Appliqué Piece.....................................................300
■ Using a Frame Pattern for the Outline....................................304
USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION ............. 306
PRINT AND STITCH (COMBINING
EMBROIDERY PATTERNS AND PRINTED
DESIGNS) .................................................... 306