So how do we get this cute design which is too big for my 4 by 4 hoop into this little guy and change the color of just his scarf? Stay tuned and I'll show you how. Greetings and welcome to our channel! I'm Eve with The Baby's Booty. Today's video is a Sew What Pro tutorial video. Sew What Pro is an embroidery design editing software program. This tutorial will benefit those who machine embroider or wish to learn more about it. You should already have a machine and have purchased designs to fully benefit from this video. Today's video in Sew What Pro is going to be fun. This is my favorite thing to do this is design editing and deleting so design editing involving deleting there so many different ways to edit a design in Sew What Pro and it's so easy you just have to know what to do and how to do it now for today what I'm going to do is to find a design that has a lot of noise to it or a lot of things going on in it and we're going to edit that so starting from the beginning this is a blank screen we're going to go up here to open or you can do control 0 on your keyboard is the keyboard shortcut it's open up one of the last files that I was in and that delicate flower this I know is a font embroidery that's not what I'm looking for right now so I'm going to go up a level into my letters folder which is where this main folder is and then I'm a back up one more level to my PE 500 this is my main file where I keep most of my embroidery designs now what I'm going to do is pick out of this particular folder or design that I've purchased and we're going to edit a design that I have purchased. Let's see if I can find okay so this one I've edited before and i'ma show you how I've edited this one let's open it up and the first thing I would like to point out is that this design you look over here in the right hand panel its showing that this design is 3.03 wide by 6.85 high. Now my machine won't recognize this if I drop this into my machine exactly the way it is because my machine only uses a four by four hoop so it will not recognize this design some may say okay well you have a split hoop for the overlap hoop that I could use and then I can go ahead and embroider the design. Well I can't and let me show you why. Frst actually let's go ahead and get this to where it's not making me want to turn my head to the right to look at it so i'ma go up here to hoop where it says adjust hoop size and it's already populated a 5 by 7 hoop for me which I don't have a 5 by 7 hoop so let's change that. I'm actually going to change it to my overlap so let's do 6.77 small overlap by 3.4 and that's going to turn it length ways for me and then the next thing I want to do is select the entire design by clicking anywhere on the design. So I click anywhere on the design and I'm just dragging it down so that you can see it easier in the screen and rolling imy mouse wheel forward to blow it up and now what I want to do is come up here right up here above the design and rotate the pattern click it one time and notice here it says 90 degree increments, 10 degree increments or one degree increment so you can decide just how big the rotation is by choosing an increment of degrees and I know mine is going to be in right angle increments so 90 degrees is fine for me so I'm a hit rotate one time and it puts them right side up where I want them to be. Now notice when I drag this up into my overlap hoop its too big for my size overlap hoop. So even if it wasn't too big it still wouldn't work I'll show you why, now. Notice the colors these are all the different colors that are in this design and this one is Blue Jay so when I click on Blue Jay it shows it's all the snowflakes and all the water puddles or ice puddles that the penguins were sitting in so what this color stop tells me is my machine is going to want to embroider all of this at one time and not stop. So because of that it's going to want to do the entire thing without me moving the hoop around it it doesn't know that it can split this and do it all in different sections because it's only one color stop so we're going to make some changes to show you how you can take a design that is too big without resizing it and adjust a couple of things here and there to allow it to fit your hoop. So let's start with the penguins now this first color stop as I mentioned it's not made for my size so one of the first things we're going to do is look at what extras we have on here that we can get rid of now I'm going to blow it up a little bit notice this snowflake here is hanging over the edge and this ice puddle is hanging over the edge so we want this to fit in our hoop one of the easiest ways to remove a part of a pattern in Sew What Pro is up here in your open cutting toolbar. Now this pair scissors and the paper behind it I love this I use it all the time with designs because as I constantly mention it I'll mention it again I'm limited to four by four so sometimes I see a really cute design and I may not want all three penguins on there i may only want one well you can buy the entire design or you can buy each individual penguin and the price is triple versus buying the one big design now some people said it's getting over no but I do a lot of business with this particular designer so I don't mind making the sacrifice to purchase the larger design and then possibly going back and buying each individual one depending upon the size of each individual one. If they're the same size then i'll just buy the larger design and trim it. So let's go up here and go to the cutting tool bar. When you click it it opens up a different tool bar right here under your rotation. So notice it says cut pattern which once you hover it explains what these are. "Split design along polygon edges defined by three or more vertices". We'll save that for future video. This one says "Select points. When checked click the mouse around the pattern to enter cutting boundary points." Select colors. "When checked click mouse on a pattern to select a specific color." Anchor Point. "When checked click mouse on a pattern to select anchor points for alignment." You have hoop guide, split at stitch and then you have a little eraser close and then help. So if need any additional information you want to dive into it and I'm not touching on it in this particular video give it a shot try it out see what it does but this ? should help you and help answer some questions you may have. Now the quickest, fastest way to get this particular design to fit inside my overlap hoop? Let's click on this little pink eraser. Now the pink eraser works just like an eraser on a piece of paper. What you do is you click and hold it down and you drag the eraser with the mouse button still clicked and held down and it will erase. Ironically enough notice once I come outside my grid, the eraser goes away that's because it doesn't work outside of your template outside of this grid. So we want to erase this and we want to erase this, but it's on the outside so we're going to have to move it. I didn't didn't do that so let's close this out so that I can move it. And it told me it didn't erase anything because I didn't have anything there to erase so I'm gonna move it over and now we'll go back. Click the eraser and what I'm going to do again click the mouse button while holding it down, drag it across the snowflake and my computer's lagging a little bit because I'm recording so it's taking a little bit longer to do the erasers. It won't take you this long because you won't be videoing but erase every little bit of it, and remember this ice corner right here was just too too much well we can edge on that just a little bit and let go of the mouse button and it's gone! The eraser is still there I'm going over this but I don't have my mouse button clicked so it's not erasing anything else. So now that we're done hit "Closed". Once you hit closed, it will ask you do you wish to perform pending erasers before closing yes I do because I want that to go away and that's that! That's it's gone! So now click on the design and if I move it over now everything fits in this hoop. So if i had it split correctly this will now fit in my hoop and all it is just one little snowflake in just this little corner that's gone. That goes to show how easily you can remove parts of a design so say for instance i just wanted the Penguins I didn't want the snowflakes. Then you do the same thing you come up here, click the eraser pick your snowflake, and then you erase your snowflake by clicking, holding down your mouse button, and dragging it all along and all over the top of the snowflake that you want gone. And it's as simple as that. And it will eventually go away on my screen but as i mentioned i'm recording so it's taking a little bit longer to process the erasers. So I'm a close this out. I don't want to erase those so if you hit "no" it comes right back it's not gone. Now, another thing that I love to do in Sew What Pro is split designs. Now as I mentioned this particular first color stop is going to stitch all of these snowflakes at one time and then the puddles before it the machine stops and tells you to change colors so the next color which would be this dark slate blue which is only on this one penquin here. So i want to split this so that it will work in my overlap hoop. The way i would do that is I have to split these stitches and turn this one big color stop into at least three color stops because it has to be three different positions for my three different hoops as you see up here at the top. So what I'm going to do is go here to Blue Jay Ima select that color. And it's important to pick the color that you're going to want to cut. The other thing I need to do before I go into cutting is go to view up here in the top of the toolbar, and then I want to take off texture. I want to take off texture because I want to see these individual stitches and you'll be able to see them better here in a moment. What I also want to view is make sure that stitch points are selected we want to see those stitch points so now when you click off of the design it shows more scratchy looking because these are these are the actual stitches and what you do is you blow it up and if you come down here in the bottom notice there's a zoom here right now its at 280 and I have a whole lot more i can go to make it zoom faster, I just grab this little black square and drag it over to the right. And look you can see these stitches so clearly now they're there all right here on the screen and to move it around you just take this sidebar here and you can move it up and down or this side bar down here and you slide it side to side this is how you would move it around when you're zoomed in so super close. As I mentioned we want to get the design split. So Ima zoom back out and make sure what I need to do first. So you're going to have to put a plan in place. To find out how this this stitches out, select the color that we want to split which is this blue. And ideally if you if I click here notice there is a square here which shows this is position one on my hoop. So if at all possible I can get this to stitch and then that and that and that and that and then this here then my machine will be fine with that because it's going to be in that first position one. If I want the second position, remember these five snowflakes are in the first position? So here with the green I don't have to split that separate but we're going to separate all of it. But definitely his puddle down here and then these snowflakes here could be in his square. We're going to let the Machine the program decide how to split it and then the third one is over here. So this shows how the program is looking at possibly splitting up this particular design. So to make it easier we want to try and split all these snowflakes and its a lot of work, but this if you really want this to stitch out with your overlap hoop and you have an overlap hoop like I do, this is what you have to go through when you don't buy the design separate. So again select Blue Jay and what we want to do is see how this stitch stitches out so that we'll know how to break up the design. So when we select this we want to see where it starts. This section up here shows how your design stitches out. Notice there is a picture of a embroidery machine right here, and there's a play button, there's a rewind button, theres options here, and then here's your stitches per second. And what this does is give a like a simulation of it stiching out. So what I'm going to do is leave that on a hundred for right now and let's hit play and watch what happens. Notice it starts stitching with that snowflake it moves that one that one and it stitching pretty quick because it's going at 100 stitches per second simulation. So now that we've seen that, we don't want to want to stop it because we know what we're dealing with now. So let's go back and select that color again and remember it started with this big snowflake here. So I'm gonna drop my stitches per second down to 30. So that I can see what branch of the snowflake the design started on I didn't catch it because it went so quickly. So notice it started up here then it went down and did that knob okay so now that we know that, Ima select all of it, and now we know this is the first one it's going to start with so we're going to start here. And zoom all the way in, roll the screen up, and that's the snowflake that we're going to be working with, so lets get it in the center of our screen. Each one of these squares is a stitch point. This is where the needle goes in and move forward and it goes in here to move forward and goes into here. So we know it started up here so we're gonna pick one of these stitch points so that we can begin the process of trying to cut this particular design this one snowflake out of the rest of the design. So we'll go up here to the cutting tool bar you click there. We don't want the eraser because we want to stitch this snowflake. So we'll go to split at stitch. Now click that. pulls up a different menu bar this one says split, this one says delete, insert, add a lock, select point, select colors, and close. This has so many features to it it's almost scary I haven't even used everything in this particular part of the toolbar. This cutting tool bar is just amazing everything that it can do. So now that we've open up this extra tool bar make sure that select point is what's highlighted, it has a dot there, and now notice it says "click the mouse to select the stitch point" and then it says "shift + the mouse to move a point". You can move stitches you can move success with this program! Let's show you how. Now again this snowflake it started up here it didn't do the ball but it went down with the stick. So, let's click on a stitch point. Let's click this first box now I zoomed all the way in so that I can see these boxes and that's what you're going to have to do. So you click that little box and notice there's a 3 here. That's because that's the third part the third point that the needle goes into your design stitch one two and then three and that's the third then the fourth stitch if you, right up under your Enter key on your keyboard and your shift your right shift and your right control this part of the keyboard there should be arrow keys here. Beside those so you would you could go forward by clicking the up arrow and notice it jumped on the screen it jump stitch number four. Click push on the up arrow again on your keyboard and it went to stitch five. Again stitch six. Press it again it stitch seven so as you see if you just keep pressing the up key on your keyboard it's going to go through every stitch that your machine is going to go through on it or you can just hold it down and it'll you know zoom through them on their own until you get all the way back to the first stitch that it starts with with just showing generally the stitches start with two because it does your locking stitches first and then it starts to stitch. So notice it's two and then three and then four. Now what we're trying to do is split this from the rest of the design. I'll show you something really quick. I shouldn't show it to you but I'm a show it to you anyway. Remember when we hovered over select point it says "click mouse to select the stitch point" which we did we clicked on it and that's how we selected four that's how we select three. Or we press the up arrows to advance. But if I wanted to select the stitch point right here i just click on it, and that's showing me that's point 197. Ok, so we've already mastered how to select a point let's look at the second part of that it says "shift plus the mouse to move a point". Even though it says "Shift + mouse" on mine its Ctrl + mouse. So if the Shift doesn't work use control. So what you do is hold down (on mine) hold down the Ctrl key, click on the number 3 stitch point, and move the mouse to the side and notice it's moving your sitch point. If you let go of the mouse and Ctrl it stays there. So now when this pattern stitches out this snowflake it's going to go number two, and come out here to number three, and then come back in for number four. That's not what we want, but that just goes to show if you have a design that's not quite filling in the way you want it to, or for whatever reason is not lining up correctly, maybe someone made it and it's not a reputable place but just one little tweak and it will be perfect, here's a way you can adjust each stitch point yourself so we're going to hold down Ctrl again, and then i'm gonna click that and i'm gonna come over and what that did was added a point I didn't want. So select three, then hold down Ctrl, then pull it over. So I didn't want it to add a stitch but it did, because instead of selecting it first, then holding down Ctrl, and then clicking the number three again to drag it, what I did was hit Ctrl, then hit the next stitch and it added a stitch. And that's not what I wanted. But it's no big deal, not worried about it. So you can move stitches around that was the whole point of that project that's not what we're doing today. So today, again, we want to find out where this particular snowflake ends. So I selected stitch 203. Let me click over here, that's 51, click over here 174, lets go down here that's 97, that was first, and then here that's 140 so up here in this ball this has the highest number for the stitch. So we know that this must be where this snowflake ends somewhere in here. So I'm going to select 226, and I'm going to hit my up arrow on my keyboard. And notice it's going up. 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 244. Now notice its doing the backstitch right here. So that lets me know it was finishing out this ball on the end of the snowflake so this is where it ends. So notice 244 when I hit the up key it's gone you don't see the numbers or the stitch points anymore and that's because it moved to the next snowflake that it's going to work on. Which as I suspected is this one here which after watching the simulated stitch out, we knew it was going to switch over to this particular snow flake. Well 246 is the next stitch and its where it starts this snowflake. Well I don't want to I want it to stop at this snowflake. I want this color to stop at this snowflake. So what we can do, and I'll tell you another benefit of this, is let me go to the very last stitch which is 244, and actually I'm gonna advance it to the next one, and then I'll come up here and notice now these are lit up. They weren't lit up before. But they are now. So now i can split the design here. I can delete that stitch that I'm on, or that's selected which is 246. I can delete that stitch if i don't want it. I can insert a stitch if i want to. If i don't think it has enough stitches or or this could be handy for someone who's trying to add something extra to a design, you can add a stitch. And then you can add a lock which is lock stitches which of course is what happens at the beginning and at the end of an embroidery design to lock your stitches in so that your design doesn't come out unexpectedly in the wash or whatever the case may be. We always do, like back stitching when we sew. Well right here I want to take this snowflake apart so i'm a hit split. So what that does is you notice over here in the color palette now instead of just one Blue Jay color, now I have 2 Blue Jay colors. So let's close this out for the time being. And when I select this just this plus these couple of stitches over here I selected and then when I select this this is the next stitch. And let's scroll out so I can show you because it selects the next stitch and all the rest of the blue that was there before. So now that snowflake is by itself. This is handy for not just separating a part of a design so that you can split the hoop, this is also handy for say for instance I don't want all my snowflakes blue. I may want some of my snowflakes to be brown. So I would come down here, and I would select the brown and now this snowflake is the brown color, whereas all the rest are blue. Say if I wanted this snowflake brown, that snowflake brown, and that snowflake brown, well the same steps you'll have to go through as we did to separate this one, is what you have to go through to separate even the rest of them so that you'll have the ability to isolate certain parts of a design to change the color of just that part of the design if, again if that color is spread throughout. Like for instance the ice puddles you know if you want this ice puddle to be brown and not these then you would have to split this particular ice puddle from the rest of this blue, so that you can change the color of just that. Otherwise the machine is not going to stop. Or you would have to sit and watch the design stitch out until you get right there at it. And then you stop the machine, and cut the thread with the machine, change out the color, do it itself and sit and watch until that puddle is done, and then stop the machine, and then put the blue color back on there. That can be done, of course! But if you wanted it to be programmed into the machine, before you stitch it out, you just split your stitches, and then you'll be able to isolate that part of the design. Same principle with say for instance his scarf in this part of his hat. I may not have wanted a green scarf on him. I might have wanted his scarf to be a different color than this green up here. Maybe I want his hat to be black, and trimmed in black, but his scarf to be green. Well in order for me to change the color of the brim of his hat, I will have to split this part up here, from this part down here. And again, in order to do that you zoom in a little bit so that you can see all of it. Then you make it play, so that you'll know where it starts and as we see its starting up at the top with the brim of his hat. So we'll stop it and then we'll select it again and then you can zoom in on that part of the design. Scroll up with these side bars or move it up with these side bars. This must be the middle penguin because I don't see anything highlighted but it's highlighted over here. So you come down here to this bar, pull it over and there's the highlighted part of that pattern because we zoomed in so close, it put it out of the field of view so you have to move with these bars around the design to get to where your field of view is supposed to be. And again we know it started with the outline and it was up here and notice right here we know this is the trail going down to the scarf. And this makes it easy for us to know where to split the design. Because we want to split this top part from the bow down at the bottom. You can do that one of two ways you can either, let's go up here to the cutting tool bar and that color is highlighted, and we want to split at stitch. This is grayed out because we haven't selected a stitch yet. Make sure it's on "select point'' because we're going to split a stitch at a point. So now select point, making sure that that's highlighted, we want to come and find a point. And notice this design has over 21,000 stitches. So now, 21,724 is right here at the beginning of the trail going down to his scarf. Now let's hit the back button. 21,723. That's before we get to the drop down so what we'll do is split the stitch here, so we have our point selected, go up here to split, and we'll split the design. And notice it stopped. It didn't even jump to the next stitch. And now we have two colors here. Let's close this out. Close it out again, and now it's split and you have these two. I go ahead and change the color of it, so that I don't get confused or so that it just makes everything so smoother. So now his hat is a different color from the scarf down at the bottom. Now, we're going to split something else I'm going to show you here, we want to select the green. Now remember this trail coming down here goes to the scarf. Well we've split the stitch so we really don't need that trail there. So one of two ways you can do that you can either go to the eraser, and erase these stitches and notice its not erasing even though it may look like it lightly in the background it looks like it might be erasing the design in the background but it's not because I have this color only this color selected over here in the palette. So we erase that line and I'll even show you over here say if i erase that part over there it looks like it's erasing, but if you hit close, "do you wish to perform pending erasures before closing?" Yes I do. I didn't erase the design and I didn't erase his fin his flipper. Rather it's still there. But now I don't have that long line coming from his hat down to his scarf because it was unnecessary. We split the stitches we split the design so now what's going to happen is this design is gonna stitch this part up here first with the 22nd color stop, then it's going to stop and ask for your next color which is the organ green for 23 and that's his scarf down at the bottom. This again allows you to change up colors to delete certain things off of a design. It will allow you to split designs so that your design can fit in an overlap hoop if it wasn't fitting there before. But the thing is, it's a lot of work if you want to split this design because you have to go through and basically separate each individual snowflake and each individual color puddle. Especially with this design, and then you have to do you know because their bills and their little feet are all together as well so the overlap hoop wouldn't work for that part. So I'll show you something else that I do. Now that was a lotta work to sit there and basically go based on each stitch to split the design. There's a lot of work. Never fear! What you can do is the same thing we did earlier with this eraser, you can select your eraser and mine isn't going to do it because I'm recording, so it would take forever for me to erase, but you could essentially erase all this guy here and then erase off this guy here. Takes a little bit but you sit there and erase em. And once you get these two erased, you'll be left with just this little guy. And you come up here, after you close it out, and perform those erasers then you come up here to file, and you'll do save as or as we went over in a prior video you would click here save as and then you would save this little guy as something completely different than what the number of it is which is up here we don't want to save him under that same number because then permanently this whole entire design will say it's just him and then you won't be able to get these two guys back without re-downloading the design so you're not wanting to go through all that. So just go ahead and do Save As, and save it as something different with just him. Then you can go back reopen this original design, which we have here, and then this time you can erase this guy with the pink eraser, then erase this guy, and whatever snowflakes you want with the pink eraser, and then say just this little guy with a Save As feature, and save him and he himself his own little file. So the cutting tool bar in Sew What Pro is just handy you can do so much with that. In order to be able to give my customers what they want or in order to create the design that I need at the moment. so Sew What Pro can be quite fun and we'll go into other little nifty things that Sew What Pro can do but today, my main concern was showing you how to erase certain parts of designs or delete certain parts of designs which we've done before again if you just wanted the penquins, of course you know you can select the the snowflakes and the puddles and you can delete it and there you just have penguins with the exception of the blue snow, I mean the brown snowflake that I had earlier and now it's just penguins. So that could have been less that you have to erase out of the other if we did it that way. So it just depends on what you're looking for all you do is just find a design that is close to what you want and then you can delete and move things around. Now say for instance I wanted to put a bow tie on this penguin here and remember his color of his little thing was green but notice when you delete it, there's a white space here and it has still a little gold fringe, so keep in mind that even though you're able to edit designs you of course are still limited because the person who designed it you know has this white space so I can't put a bow tie here it's going to look retarded because then I have this here in this space so you do have limitations is not unlimited to where you don't have to be concerned with how people designed it. You can just change up anything that they've done. No that's not the case. But there are some designs that are easier to edit than others and then going in all that I'm basically just pointing out that there is still some challenges that you'll be faced with where you may not still get the exact designed as you want and in that case you can contact the person who created the design and say "hey look i love this design, but can you please try and make it this way". And there probably will be a digitizing fee but they can do it for you. So keep in mind if you have a design and you can't find it anywhere and you're not a digitizer, you can find places that will digitize for you as a matter of fact i'll put a link below that is one of the digitizers that i use and he would love to do more work, I'm sure. And I'll forewarn him before anyone calls. So that's it for today I just wanted to touch base on that to let you know the scope of what you can do with Sew What Pro. A lot of times people just leave it to the basic "oh this is a design and I want a name up under it" that's fun and all but there's a whole other aspect of Sew What Pro that can open up possibilities to you. I appreciate you guys for tuning in it's been great I love doing these tutorials if you have any questions of anything you would like to see I know someone requested one on doing lettering such as taking a true font that's out there and turning it into a design and sew it pro will approach that now that's more of a program called Sew Write where you would, Sew What Pro the creators of Sew What Pro they have another program called SewWrite where you just type it out on your keyboard and you can save that as a design as well and i'll have the link to that as well as Sew What Pro down in the bottom in the comments but that's not what we worked with today is it? So if you have any questions again just feel free to drop me a line i'm more than happy to answer any questions and until next time, Happy Embroidery! Click here to subscribe to our channel Click here to view other videos in our tutorial playlist. And click here for the next video that you should find helpful. Thank You!
