Adjust appliqué stitch settings

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Use Appliqué > Digitize Appliqué to digitize closed-object appliqué with all necessary stitching.

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Use Appliqué > Digitize Appliqué with Holes to digitize closed-object appliqué with all necessary stitching with multiple boundaries.

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Use General > Object Properties to set current properties.

Adjust settings for each appliqué component as well as its position in relation to the digitized outline or to each other. Right-click the Digitize Appliqué tool or double-click an appliqué object. The Object Properties > Appliqué dialog opens. The tab is divided into six functional areas – guidelines, tackdown, cover stitch, offsets, fabric, and machine functions.

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Tip  Click Apply to test modified settings with selected objects without closing the dialog. To modify default settings, access the dialog without objects selected.

To select guidelines...

1Select required guideline type.

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There are two options:

2Adjust Stitch length as necessary:

To adjust tackdown settings...

1Select a tack stitch from the droplist – Single, Blanket, etc – and adjust settings as necessary. The choice of tackdown will be determined by the roughness of the fabric edge and possibly weight of fabric used. Width is constrained by width of cover stitch.

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2Adjust width and spacing settings. Tackdown width cannot be greater than cover stitch width. Stitch length can be adjusted for Single stitch type.

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To adjust cover stitch settings...

1In the Cover stitch panel, select or deselect cover stitching as preferred.

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2Select preferred cover stitch type – Satin, Blanket, etc.

3Adjust cover stitch width and spacing as required:

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Single stitch type includes a Stitch Length setting.

To adjust offsets...

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