How to Create a Ripple Stitch | Machine Embroidery Digitizing

[Music] hey everyone John Deere here from John Deere embroidery legacy and today I want to tell you how to use a specialty stitch that's available in most software programs effectively and efficiently and I'm talking about the ripple stitch or the spiral stitch it's essentially a stitch that usually goes from the inside and gets bigger and bigger towards the outside of the design and it's a great visual effect but the problem is if you use it to the normal density standards of regular fills or regular embroideries you end up getting a lot of distortion within designs I'm not talking about really good Distortion years ago I actually tried this effect and I created what looked like a shimmering CD it had that spiral e stitch and I blended colors all together and it looked really cool and it was for a young group of male DJ's and when I ended up sewing the sample there was a little issue my mother who was running our samples at the time called me down to the sample room and said John this just isn't going to do because I actually did it so that it was actually going from the outside in and what it did was it essentially made a cone shape out on the shirt so it kind of looked like half a brassiere which isn't what these guys were looking for so then what I did was I tried to reverse the effect and I did it from the inside out and what happened was it went the opposite direction on the golf shirt material which really wouldn't be that comfortable either so I had to come up with a little solution years ago and I've been using this for using specialty stitches as well as a lot of my blending with animals and it's basically putting down a base fill now I'm gonna try to kind of blend three different colors together on a circle just to use as a visual example and then we'll see the difference in the stitch count using a full density which we know is going to distort and actually playing with the densities and different fills to make it work properly now is what we're gonna have some fun and we're gonna have to think outside the box or in this case the circle but I'm going to digitize Circle and I'm going to try to make it approximately three inches in width so I'll just digitize a perfect circle using the circle tool now if I select that circle and look at the size about two point eight to two so I can just change that to three and now it's the perfect size but what I want to look at actually is the measurements in metric with regards to the properties because if I select that object again and I look at the spacing or the density between the stitches the row of stitches it's set to point four millimeters and my fabric is set to pique knit now point four is actually almost perfect coverage for most fabric types you won't see any of the fabric showing through it does vary depending on the fabric but that's kind of the standard and with that standard I'm looking at a stitch count of seven thousand six hundred and forty four stitches now I want to remember that because what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to take that object I'm gonna use the ripple effect and I just clicked on ripple and if I look at the spacing it's actually set at two millimeters and I really do if I actually go up to full screen here I really do like the fact that in the hatch software it does give you a reasonable minimum with two millimeters generally it won't distort the fabric do too much and it actually won't cause a lot of hard stitches in the design so it actually is kind of in our safety net built in but if I were to change this to the same density and clicked okay you can see now that there's just an incredible amount of stitches and it went from seven thousand four hundred up to nine thousand four hundred stitches and I know because of the you know cylinder a symmetrical movement of that it's going to cause distortion from the center row so I really don't want to you know do that exactly as it shows because I'm going to have the problems that we discussed at the beginning of the video so I'm going to change this back to a regular fill and now I'm going to do a couple of duplicating I'm going to duplicate this a couple of times unless it's duplicated two three and four times and now I'm going to actually take this object right here number four and I'm going to make this 50% of the size and I'm going to actually change it to an outline stitch so it's a running stitch and I'll change it to black so now I can see a black running stitch there then I'm going to take the second one and I can do the same thing I'm going to do a running stitch and I'm going to change it to black as well and now I can see and I guess I didn't change that one to seventy-five so that's it seventy-five and enter so now I can see I actually have two stitches there that really are just giving me a guideline I need to have something so that I can you know work out my variegation afterwards and then what I'm going to do is I need to take this object number two and I'm going to turn it into a yellow stitch and I'm going to change it to the ripple stitch but I'm going to change it to let's say one point three or one point two millimeters we'll try one point three first that looks okay now what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually take that original fill and I'm going to start changing the properties of the fill I'll go from point four two point six millimeters that's going to loosen up the density and then I'll go from four millimeter stitch length to 5 millimeter stitch length that brings it down anymore and then I'm going to go to the underlay settings and I'll change the stitch spacing from two to four millimeters because I really don't need that much spacing and now I'm actually at seven thousand two hundred and seventy stitches so I'm a couple hundred one hundred and fifty odd stitches underneath of the original one so this is kind of the effect that I'm looking for a base with a pattern going on top but not now is where I really have to kind of think outside of the box and for this I'm actually going to go to my needle point so I'll turn my needle points on and I'm going to actually turn my TrueView off and I'm going to actually come in here as well and I'm going to hide this selected object so that I don't see the object underneath now the reason why is I'm going to do something kind of cool and this is thinking outside of the circle so to speak I'm going to actually go to my edit objects and I'm going to go to my stitch at it and within stitch edit I'm going to make I grab on to one of my objects that is just outside of that first black little set running stitch that I created and I make sure that I click right on it and then I'm going to change it to orange and now that I've changed it to orange it's actually added a separate color change and then I'm going to go back to my stitch at it and I'm going to click off of here and let's just go forward so I'll go forward through my colors so now I can see that I'm all the way to the beginning and then I'm going to go back to my stitch edit mode and I'm going to come right here to one of these just outside of that next black line and let's grab that one and then I'm going to change that one to let's say a red color and now I can see that I've actually inserted color stops or color changes and if I click off the design and we're off of stitch edit I can see that I have all of those colors in place now what I can do is I can turn back on my unhide so I'm going to unhide all I can now look at this design back in true view and I can delete these first two so now are these last two which are just those running stitches so now I've actually created a nice variegated effect without actually creating a lot more density so this is actually going to work pretty well now one thing that I could do if I wanted to is I could go back to my stitch edit and I could try to grab just these one stitch and I could actually move this one ever so slightly so it's a little closer to the next one right there maybe and hit the enter and then I can grab this one right here where there's a trim in between and hit this one and press enter and that way when I turn back on the true view I see hardly any gaps between anything so now what I might want to do is create a border around the outside of this and I'm just going to click on to the Wunderland scale and let's just zoom in a little bit so I'm not too close to the edge and what I'm going to do is I'm going to select a different color just for now and I'm going to digitize closed shape and do a satin stitch and then I'll just very quickly do a curve point here a curve point right over here a curve here one more here and then I know because it's going to join at the top I just have to hit enter and now I have a satin stitch going around that's going to retain the shape of this design now I want to select that object and just make sure that it has an edge run underlay and that way it's going to give me nice clean borders around the edge and then if I want to I could actually just change this to the last color so that it's in the order now if I want to change the original one I really don't want to have it green I might actually choose a slightly different color of red than the first one and that's going to give me a little bit of gradients and shading between the two and I think that's actually going to look great when it's done so we're gonna run a sample and see how it works out well I ran the sample on the machine and it turned out great but just to prove a point I actually went into the software and I created a spiral stitch at the full density and I think the results are gonna speak for themselves exactly what I was saying if you look at this it almost looks like there's a little button there that I can push back and forth and it's literally taken this design and made it so that you can either pop it forward or pop it back and it looks kind of cool but it really is not production friendly whereas the design that we did where we changed it we actually have perfect results we have a variation that looks incredible and it actually is sitting perfectly flat there's no puckering or bubbling anywhere in the design and that's what we're looking for so that's the one thing that I love about digitizing is there is always always an answer if you look hard enough so I hope you enjoyed this and we'll talk to you next time hi John Deere here and thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a like down below to join the legacy now hit the subscribe button and make sure you hit the bell to be notified every time we release a new video it's no mystery award-winning embroidery is our history [Music]

Channel: John Deer's Embroidery Legacy

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Id: QdaDEoEN76o

Length: 11min 17sec (677 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 13 2019