![]() ![]() If that weren’t enough, machine embroidery allows us to chance texture through the way we create stitches long stitches that lie in a common direction can look shiny, while short stitches can look rougher and duller. Add that to our ground fabric and we have the chance to play with contrasts and comparisons just on the material basis alone. ![]() Moreover, specialty threads with natural fibers or matte finishes can allow us to explore contrast in texture. Texture: Standard embroidery thread has an incredible sheen that selectively and directionally reflects light in different ways. In part one of this 2-part exploration of the simpler side of machine embroidery, we’ll discuss the qualities embroidery has to help us to create visual interest, even with a severely limited palette. If we think about the way thread ‘works’ with light and give due consideration when we are translating our source material, we can take these simple designs from dull to dazzling. Though single-color designs might not be the stunners that make jaws drop when you haul them out at your next crafty gathering, there’s no reason not to use all the qualities thread has in store to make them stand out as much as possible. Engraving-look pieces might be too dense, or too open, following the original art without thinking of thread weight and simple graphical pieces may have been run through the auto-digitizing mill and suffer from thoughtless transitions between stitch types. ![]() The sad thing is that some digitizers can get lazy in their execution, making them boring slabs of unidirectional fill or uniform lines. It’s hard not to love a single-color machine embroidery design there’s no need to re-thread the design for different colors, most won’t have problems with registration, and the stitch counts are often low, so they finish fast. ![]()
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