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| Half stitched out echocardiogram of my heart. you can see the frame and the clips used to hold the fabric in place |
Those of you who know me, know that I use a Pfaff sewing machine kindly sponsored by VSM UK Ltd (thanks Mike). Now I am not going to get all Jeremy Clarkson about it but it has got one of the biggest hoops on the market. However to use that hoop you need to 'break' your design into two halves.
Its a simple thing to do if you know what to do before you stitch out and you get an even better effect if you split it when its a design, rather than an embroidery file. However this piece is at such a preliminary stage I have programmed a couple of footprints but for the large scale samples I just increased the size of an existing heart scan embroidery file. The software automatically split it down the middle and the result is half hearted in all senses
