The ladybug below is an applique and the spots are on top of the fabric so yes, there will be trims between those dots. Lifting your crayon is the equivalent of a jump stitch in embroidery. If you want to color the spots black, you’d color a spot, then lift your crayon and move to the next spot.
To put this into perspective for a newbie, imagine a coloring book image of a ladybug. I make it a game to see if I can eliminate jumps or keep them to a bare minimum but it isn’t always possible depending on the artwork. If all the parts are connected, then the only time you or your machine needs to trim a thread is at the end of a color or the end of design. Tip: Many times sewing the DST version of the design (well, at least mine, since that’s the “master” stitch file format) won’t do that extra stitch drop.Īnother way to think about this is to imagine your design as one continuous thread from start to finish. (Shown below: Love to Sew, 2 color version.) If your machine does that too, just remember to hit the +1 stitch button to advance one stitch at the beginning and when changing colors and that won’t happen. And it will do that on every color change, sinking the needle at the end of the previous color and then traveling to where the real start of the next color begins. On one of my older machines, it will actually sink the needle in center and then travel. I don’t really count that one because on most machines, the machine just moves to the start point and starts stitching. The first one travels from the “home” position (center of the hoop) at the beginning of the design to the start of the first stitch. In the screen capture below, the gray connector lines are jumps. These short jumps aren’t likely to trigger the automatic trimmers on machines that have them. Some jumps aren’t any longer than a normal stitch length and may either be covered by other stitches or barely visible. A “jump” is any connector stitch that jumps from one object over to another area for sewing. However, just because there are jumps or even a lot of them, doesn’t mean it’s a poorly digitized design.įirst of all let’s look at what a jump stitch is. Novice digitizers and poorly digitized designs frequently have too many unnecessary jumps due to poor planning. I often see posts on Facebook where users are raking various digitizers over the coals because of “too many jump stitches.” In some instances, the complaints are well deserved but that’s not always the case!
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