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How to Use Curved Fills to Create Amazing Effects
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This blog article will give you an excellent overview of how to use curved fills to create amazing effects for your next embroidery project.
Hatch Embroidery software provides several techniques for creating curved stitching for your machine embroidery projects. Contour fill follows the contours of a shape, creating a curved, light and shade effect. Ripple fill is achieved by radiating a stitch pattern from a common central point. The Florentine effect can be applied to filled objects to create a flowing stitch effect along a digitized line. Radial fill generates radial turning stitching in most fill stitch types.
Contour Fills
Contour is a curved fill stitch type – stitches follow the contours of a shape, creating a curved, light, and shade effect. Use it to create a sense of movement in contrast to flatter fills created by satin or tatami stitching. It can be used with Circle or Digitize Blocks input tools.
Adjust stitch length for smoother or sharper curves. Adjust stitch spacing for denser or more open stitching.
Stitch angle has little effect on pattern layout, but the entry point in circle objects does.
Ripple Fills
Ripple Fill stitch is related to Contour stitch, providing a similar look (with a fixed number of lines and variable spacing) but spiraling out from the center of a filled object. It can be applied to any filled object. Stitch angle has no effect on pattern layout.
Adjust Stitch spacing for denser or more open stitching. Adjust Stitch length for smoother or sharper curves.
The center of the Ripple stitch can be moved with the Reshape tool.
If the object has a hole, this is ignored when Ripple is applied but still exists when other stitch types are applied.
Florentine Fills
The Florentine effect allows you to contour fill stitches along a digitized guideline. Stitches follow the line but maintain uniform density and needle penetration patterns.
Use smaller stitch lengths – e.g. 4.00 mm or less – for best results. Florentine can be combined with Embossed fill, Motif fill, and other fancy stitches for enhanced effect.
Use the Reshape tool to change the shape of the curve. Press <Enter> to finish.
Florentine fill can be applied together with Embossed fills (see above), Motif fills (see below) as well as Tatami patterns.
Radial Fills
Radial fill generates radial turning stitching in several stitch types such as satin and tatami stitch. Use tatami patterns to accentuate the effect. Stitches are generated from the outside edge to the geometric center.
Radial fill applies to several object shapes – closed, circle, and rectangle. Use the Reshape tool to modify the effect. The hole can be resized either interactively or via object properties. It can relocated using the positioning handle at the center.
Unlike Ripple fill, the center of Radial fill can be moved outside the shape or into an included hole to achieve a different effect. Different tatami patterns achieve different effects. It can also be applied together with various fancy fills.
Useful Tips
Not all patterns and stitch settings or objects (size-specific) are suitable for Radial fill. In particular, if you are using it with larger objects, use one or a combination of the following to avoid bunching at the center:
- Increase the size of the hole
- Move the center into an existing hole in the object, or move it outside the object altogether.
- Add Feather Edge to the inside. See also Feather Edge.
- Use larger stitch spacing – increase by about 20%.
- Avoid patterns that add needle penetrations close to the center of the object.
- Use Edge Run underlay with smaller objects, to help reduce the number of stitches at the object center. See also Stitch reinforcement.
- For fewer problems and a better embroidery result, use an SUK or H/E embroidery needle if your machine can use these needle types.
- For the best effect, use Radial fill with ring shapes. The size of the ring should be about 20% of the outer diameter.
You are not able to directly edit the stitch angles generated by Radial fill. However, you can apply the Break Apart tool to edit the resulting turning angle closed object.
3D Warp
Another way to create curved motif fills is with 3D Warp. Use it to make shapes appear concave or convex.
Using Globe In with 3D Warp gives a concave effect by increasing motif size and spacing around a center point. Globe Out gives a convex effect by decreasing motif size and spacing.
Use the Reshape tool to customize the shape of the 3D Warp envelope. You can apply the effect to an entire object, or to a specific part of the fill.
We hope that you found this blog both educational and inspirational so that you now have a clearer idea of how to use curved fills to create amazing effects.
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