Chapter 6

Embroidery Edit

EXPLANATION OF FUNCTIONS..................262

SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT..................263

Selecting Embroidery Patterns/Brother “Exclusives”/Greek
Alphabet Patterns/Floral Alphabet Patterns/Utility Embroidery
Patterns/Frame Patterns................................................. .264
Selecting Alphabet Character Patterns............................ 264

EDITING PATTERNS.....................................267

■Key Functions.........................................................................268
Moving the Pattern......... ................................................ 269
Rotating the Pattern................................... ..................... 269
Changing the Size of the Pattern..................................... 270
Deleting the Pattern....................................................... .271
Changing the Configuration of
Alphabet Character Patterns................................ ........... 271
Changing Alphabet Character Spacing............................ 272
Reducing Character Spacing................ ........................... 273
Separating Combined Character Patterns ....................... 274
Changing the Color of
Each Alphabet Character in a Pattern........ ..................... 275
Embroidering Linked Characters..................................... 276
Changing the Thread Color.................................. ........... 278
Creating a Custom Thread Table..................................... 279
■Adding a Color to the Custom Thread Table from the List.....282
Choosing a Color from the Custom Thread Table ........... 283
Designing Repeated Patterns .......................................... 284
■Sewing Repeated Patterns......................................................284
■Repeating One Element of a Repeated Pattern.......................286
■Color Sorting Repeated Patterns.............................................287
■Assigning Thread Marks..........................................................289
Duplicating a Pattern...................................... ................ 290
After Editing.............................................................. ...... 290

COMBINING PATTERNS..............................291

Editing Combined Patterns............................................. .291
■Selecting combined embroidery patterns...............................293
Sewing Combined Patterns ............................................. 294

VARIOUS EMBROIDERING FUNCTIONS.... 295

Uninterrupted Embroidering (Using a Single Color) ....... 295
Basting Embroidery......................................... ................ 295
Creating an Appliqué Piece............................................. 296
■Creating an Appliqué Piece....................................................296
■Using a Frame Pattern for the Outline...................................300
Using the Built-In Camera
to Align the Embroidering Position ................................. 302

USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION..............305

PRINT AND STITCH (COMBINING

EMBROIDERY PATTERNS AND

PRINTED DESIGNS).....................................306

Selecting a Pattern.......................................... .................307
■Checking Only the Embroidery Pattern...................................307
Outputting the Background Image
and Positioning Image .....................................................3 08
■Using USB Media....................................................................308
■Using a USB Cable..................................................................309
Printing the Background and Embroidery Position Sheet ...........310
Sewing Embroidery Patterns........... .................................310