Tips & Techniques

Stick Figure Border

100 X 170 Hoop size or Endless Hoop, Grid size if 5mm, choose vertical.

Click on "letter" page and choose "machine" and click on "General Motifs" and Type M 6 times size 37 gap Minus 15 Click on "apply".

Click on the "design" page and rotate 90 and mirror side to side . Change the colors in this order, red, blue and yellow, red blue and yellow. Then click on "color sort".

Zoom in and center the designs on the center vertical line and horizontal lines using the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge them into place. Zoom in to get it perfect.

Click on the "letter" page and choose D Heirloom 2 and set the size to 10 and gap to MINUS 8

Type S 6 times. Click on "multiple and apply".

Click on the design page and rotate 90. Place the side to side vertical mirror right on that center horizontal line again and the left outline of the box will be a little to the left of the 1 st grid line from center so the points of the heart are over the section where the body meets the legs.

Now, notice that each heart has lines on each side of the point of the heart. We don't want those there, so let's click on the "edit" page. Only the hearts will be showing because that is what is selected.

Zoom in a lot because we want to move those side stitches from the heart to just inside the point of the heart. Click on the very end of the first side stitch On that solid red line and move it straight down and over just inside the point.

Then click on the next stitch that is a solid line and do the same thing. It's about 5 stitches on each side of the heart that have to be moved up into the tip of the heart. When you are done, only dotted lines will remain. Those are jump stitches.

Click on the "design page" and you can see that the lines are no longer there. Change the colors to red, yellow, blue, red, yellow, blue. Color sort.

Click on the letter page and choose Candlewicking and size 10, gap Plus 5 and type W 13 times and "apply". Click on the designs page and rotate 90 and color sort to green.

Zoom in and place these on the left side at the first vertical grid line from the heads. But, this time, I want that center diamond to be centered on the center horizontal line instead of the mirror being centered on that line. This centers the center diamond and makes the first and last diamonds just where I want them to start and end. Notice the mirror button is slightly below the horizontal line and I moved the rotation so you could see it clearly.

Copy and paste the diamonds and zoom in for perfect placement to match the opposite side. Click on "combine" and color sort.

Click on the "endless" icon and then decide if you want the endless markers to start at the bottom or the top.

I chose Down, Corner, and no repeat because I knew this was all that would fit in the endless hoop. Click on "preview" to see your choice of where the end and beginning markers will be. Click OK and save.