How to Make an Embroidered Lace Edging
Hi Everyone!
I will demonstrate how to make an embroidered lace edging like the image below. Step by step instructions listed here and also demo video in link below.
Step 1: - Place a single repeat of your lace image as a graphic on to a rectangular piece and tile it on the necessary axis. Re-size and position as desired.
Step 2: Using Internal Polygon, trace or outline the edges and openings of your lace embroidery for one repeat only.
Step 3: Use copy and paste to duplicate the internal lines and place the design across the entire piece.
Step 4: Join all the overlapping points of the segments to connect all the internal lines. Make sure all shapes are fully close or intersect pattern outline.
Step 5: Sew the rectangle piece to to bottom edge and allow to simulate.
Step 6: Use Cut and sew to cut apart all the pieces of your embroidered lace area.
Step 7: Create a fabric and set it to have zero opacity - this fabric will be for the holes and exposed edges of your lace.
Step 8: Apply Transparent fabric to the necessary pieces.
Step 9: Duplicate all graphics to their symmetric patterns.
Step 10: Set all Graphics for lace images to show on the front and back of the fabric. Select all Graphics and Set Graphic Configuration to Both.
Step 11. Copy and Symmetric Clone pieces all around skirt to finish hem.
Step 12: Change the 3D Seamline width to Zero to hide the visual of sewn seams - this step is important to make the embroidery look seamless.
Tips & Warnings:
Adjust things like color, normal maps and graphic configuration BEFORE you start cutting apart your lace pieces. To adjust a graphic you need to CLICK to select every single graphic, so once you have all these pieces with the lace graphic image, actions like recoloring, or changing something on all the Graphics is a process to select them all. You can also select them all in colorway mode but still have to click select every single graphic chip. There is no marquee selection option for graphics.
This technique generally ends up having TONS of tiny pieces which can get confusing and convoluted - Keep your work space organized it will help you in the long run!.
Sometimes some weird things to the visual placement of the graphic image in the 2D window - as long as everything is aligned in the 3D window this is OK and just a small glitch.
DO NOT merge your pattern pieces with the Graphics at the end. If you do this the placement of the Graphics may adjust slightly and your cut and sewn holes will not line up with the images anymore. INSTEAD make the 3D seam width Zero.
hope this is useful!
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So you cut&sew patterns to apply transparent fabric to cut-out parts of the lace?
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Yes - For the areas where I need to have a graphic image for embroidery or lace, but not show fabric behind or around, you can apply a transparent fabric to that area.
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super cool!
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Super job! I'm impressed by your skills.
I hope to become as able as you using this software.0
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