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Arranging Embroidery Designs

Arra

nging Embro

ide
ry Des

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s

Setting the thread color

The 

Color

 pane allows you to set the thread color.

■

Color

Click the 

Color

 tab. If the 

Color

 tab is not 

displayed, click the 

View

 tab in the Ribbon, and 

then click 

Color Palette

.

• Palette mode

• List  mode

(1) Select the type of stitching (

Line, Region

) 

whose color is being selected.

Line

: Line color 

Region

: Region color 

(2) From the 

Thread Chart

 selector, select a 

thread brand or your user thread chart.

(3) From the list of thread colors, select the 

desired color.

(4) Click to switch the mode.

(5) Displays all thread colors being used in 

the embroidery design. When an 
embroidery pattern is selected, a frame 
appears around the colors used in that 
pattern. The same thread colors can be 
specified by selecting them here.

■

Special colors

(6)

NOT DEFINED

: If you want to be able to 

manually select the color for a 
monochrome pattern, you can select 

NOT 

DEFINED

. 

Colors for creating appliqués

: 

You can create appliqués using the following 
three special colors.

(7)

APPLIQUE MATERIAL

: marks the 

outline of the region to cut from the 
appliqué material.

(8)

APPLIQUE POSITION

: marks the 

position on the backing material where 
the appliqué must be sewn.

(9)

APPLIQUE

: sews the appliqué on the 

backing material.

(4)

(5)

(2)

(3)

(1)

(1)

(4)

(5)

(2)

(3)

(6)

(7)

(8)

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