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Leaves a plain background (or a fake gray/white checkerboard) unstitched, so only the design is sewn.
2Settings
×mm
Keeps rows at least 0.35 mm apart: dense stitching cuts the knit loops like a perforated line and the fabric can tear along the design’s edge.
Orientation
° clockwise
Thread colors
Type a number, or use ▼ ▲. ▼ merges the two most similar thread colors into one; every other color stays the same.
If the picture already has an outline (all the way round or just in places), the border takes its place instead of going around it, so you don't get a double outline. Turn off to keep both.
Borders the outside edge (and holes, like the inside of an O) but not the edges between colors inside the design.
Stitch count and density
Stitch count range (optional)
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Leave blank to use the density and stitch length below. Fill in either or both and those two get adjusted automatically to land in your range.
Picture cleanup
White or light-gray pockets left over from the background (and specks of other colors) that touch the outside of the design aren’t stitched. Details inside the design are kept.
A thread that covers under 0.1% of the design (a few stitches) isn’t worth a thread change - its shapes take the color around them.
On: areas of the background color inside the design (holes, the inside of an O or A) are left as fabric. Turn off if the design has details in that color that should be stitched, like white eyes or teeth on a white background.
Off: a big area of background color inside the design (the inside of a frame round it) isn’t stitched. On: it is, and so is the background color inside a rectangular design - a flag’s white stripe, which runs into the background round the flag.
Stitching
Lettering is found automatically (letters of one color in a row) and sewn after everything else, so it sits crisp on top. If its color is used elsewhere too, that color gets a second thread stop. Doesn't apply once you've dragged the threads into your own order.
Satin only looks like satin as the top layer - covered by a later color, its edge is lost. Satin that touches colors sewn after it (outlines, lettering) is sewn after them instead. A color that's all satin just moves later at no cost; a color with fills and satin gets a second thread stop - turn this off on a single-needle machine to avoid that.
A small piece mostly surrounded by colors sewn later (a pupil the same color as the hair) gets its own thread stop after them, so it sits on top and lines up. Costs a thread change. On a single-needle machine, turn this off to be faster: every color is then sewn in one go, and those details go on with the rest of their color, underneath the colors around them. Turn off Keep satin on top too, or satin can still get its own stop.
3Stitch preview
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Fabric color
Needle holes per mm²0612+ (too dense)
Check before stitching
4Thread colors
Select the colors you want to merge.
Click a color to select it. Drag colors (or use Alt + arrow keys) to change the stitching order.
Select one or more colors above to see where they are in your picture.
Shapes
Nothing selected.
Zoom
Drag the points. Double-click an edge to add a point; Alt-click a point to remove it.