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From: Ms.Goody2Shoes <nunyabeezwax@thehive.com>
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Subject: Re: Digitizing Question Please - Snowflakes.rar (0/1)
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:27:14 +1000, Pixie <Pixie@AnnWheatley.com.invalid>
wrote in:
<89o5f69p29pv85g1pnek3iib9o4gjvhggs@4ax.com>:
>On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:07:12 -0500, Ms.Goody2Shoes
><nunyabeezwax@thehive.com> wrote:
>
>>I would like to know from those of you who digitize, and those who are
>>proficient using embroidery software,... Can these two attached designs be
>>made smaller? One is freestanding lace, and I have read that those type
>>cannot be altered. But I thought I'd ask.
>>
>Hey Goody :-)
>Big weekend, haven't been online.
>
>Digitisers do not favour resizing their designs (ESPECIALLY lace)
>simply because it is not always successful. Those that try to sell top
>quality designs aren't so keen to see how the home sewer resized and
>trashed it!!
>Not all embroidery software do/does it in the same fashion and how
>much you resize it and in what increments, matters.
>By that I mean don't enlarge/decrease something by 50% in one hit.
>There will be tears! When I have to do it, I creep up on it in 10%
>increments and see how it is handling it on the way.
>I rarely do it and when I do, I'm aware that I am doing the driving.
>There is no "free lunch" in resizing something. Regardless of what it
>says on the side of the software box!
>
>>The other clockworks snowflake
>>is a regular embroidery file. I do have an old version of embird, but I
>>wasn't sure if I could reduce a design size.
>> I haven't played much with
>>sizing, and I didn't know what happened to the density.
>>
>A clue with whether the software is recalibrating the stitch amount
>(creating/deleting stitches or just making the same stitches bigger or
>smaller) is to make the adjustment and check the stitch count. If that
>changes, then the software is adding or deleting stitches.
>This is ideal, but doesn't always give you what you want either.
>Especially wtih things like eyes (the small detail stuff). It can make
>your soft eyed project suddenly look crosseyed!
>Something else to watch out for is resizing in the right proportions.
>So you don't end up with one side longer and out of whack, simply
>because you pulled the design more to the right than you did to the
>bottom of screen> You don't want it to look "warped".
>
>>I didn't want to
>>end up with something so thick that it wouldn't sew out. I was hoping to
>>make each design about 2.5 x 2.5 inches. I don't mind having a go at it
>>myself with a little advice.
>>
>That's a big reduction for lace (proportionally, it's about a third.
>So you are taking a third of the guts of it out).
>Lace is constructed differently to ordinary embroidery. When resizing
>lace to a smaller size, you can't always be sure that the essential
>construction stitches that keep it from falling apart in places are
>going to stay in place. Making lace bigger is only marginally less
>stressful because it is (usually) creating more stitches. The danger
>with this is you often get a more "stretched" looking design because
>not enough stitches are created to fill the new area. That is why
>doing small increments works better. Don't do the whole resize in one
>hit if it is a big resize. Do a little at a time.
>
>> Do the embroidery software programs actually
>>reduce the number of stitches when you reduce the size? Or do they just
>>make the stitches smaller?
>>
>Depends on your software and the version you are up to. You will have
>to check in your Help section and if that still doesn't clear it up,
>do a few samples and be critical of it.
>
>I say be critical because I have seen a few resizes from Ladies who
>thought it was wonderful (in real life too!) and I've just thought
>/blachk!
>
>In the end, it's up to your eye.
>
>- Do your resizing, either up or down, in smal increments so as to
>allow the software to do the best job it can.
>
>- Remember with lace when resizing down (if the software recalibrates
>stitch amount) then you will be deleting stitches. And you may end up
>deleting the very stitches that hold it together. Programs do not say
>to themselves "this is lace" and be more careful. It has no idea.
>
>- Be realistic at how much you want to resize something. Think like a
>graphic designer and what happens when you resize a picture. Smooth,
>even designs resize better than fiddly, lacy or detailed designs.
>
>- Be aware if the design "warps". Not all software keeps the ratio.
>
>On a positve??!!
>A good design WILL give a better result. Designs with LESS fiddly
>detail will give a better result. The less a program has to think
>about detail, the better.
>With lace, you are more likely to lose the important groundwork
>stitches, and on the steampunk snowflake, the gears/cogs may be
>compromised.
>It's only because of the detail and you want to make it smaller, so
>small detail either becomes so small it's useless, or the program
>deletes it altogether.
>
>Have a crack at it!! You are the only judge of what your program can
>do for you.
>Just do the resizing in increments would be my first advice and go
>from there.
>Check your Help section to see just how your particular program
>handles resizing and if you have options. Eg, mine has options for
>pattern sensitivity, stitch lengths and to recalibrate stitches (or
>not) in the Preferences. There is a Tab for Resizing.
>
>>Thanks so much for any advice,
>>
>Hope you have a go at it. You'll never, never know if you never have a
>go!
Right you are! I will try some on my own. But I think I'll leave the fsl
one alone. As I said to holita, I thought you would tell me that.
Thanks for your time to help me understand the best way to have a crack at
it.
>
>>Goody
>>
>Pixie :-))
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