PeppermintPam
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Reply to luvfabric
Date: 3/11/10 5:39 PM I've had my Place & Stitch for about a year, and it has been worth it to me. It's very easy to use, and finally I can stitch designs on difficult shapes (collars especially) and get the design exactly where I want it. It works perfectly every time.
I like that the book is filled with a very large variety of templates, arranged into categories, and you just match the shape of the garment part (collar, pocket, lapel, neckline, etc) to one of the shapes in the book. Your shape might not be an exact match, but I've always found something very close that works well. As an example, I just finished designing a (back) pocket for a pair of jeans I'm going to make, and out of the 53 pocket shapes, about 27 work for a back jeans pocket, and I easily found one that, although not identical in shape, is the same width, length and appoximate shape at the bottom.
There are also lots of color pictures throughout the book to give you embroidery ideas. For me this product has taken a lot of the stress out of getting perfect placement of my embroidery designs, and that has been well worth the cost.
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PeppermintPam
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Reply to tiggervd
Date: 3/11/10 7:41 PM No, this kit does not tell you where to place embroidery designs on, for example the right side of a polo, but it does help with exact placement of designs just about anywhere else on a garment.
It is a kit that gives stitch outlines for :
Baby Bibs, Belts, Buttonhole Plackets, Collars, Covered Buttons, Cuffs, Facings, Geometric Shapes, Hat Brims, Hemlines, Home Dec and Aprons, Lapels, Necklines, Overall Bibs, Pocket Flaps, Pockets, Sleeve Caps, Totes and Bags, and Yokes.
Geometric shapes include circles, half circles, squares, rectangles, arcs, hexagons, octagons, triangles and mitered corners. This would work for fabric bowls and boxes, quilt corners and quilt blocks, picture frames, napkins, potholders, garment parts that are those shapes, etc, etc.
Once you decide on the stitch outline you want to use, you position your embroidery design(s) within that outline, adjusting it to get it exactly how you want it on the finished item. Then you hoop your stabilizer, stitch the outline onto the stabilizer, then adhere your garment piece to the stabilizer exactly fitting it into the stitched outline. Then stitch your embroidery design.
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