Shapes

Shape places a prepared piece in the hoop: Oval, Polygon, Star, Line, and Curve. Oval, polygon, and star are Outline objects. The path is the border, so they can have an inside. Line and Curve are Centerline; see Centerline and outline.

The pictures here use a hexagon, which is what Polygon places. Star and Oval use the same stitch settings.

Find Shape

Shape sits in the middle of the top bar, between Draw and Text.

1. Click Shape. A second row appears: Oval, Polygon, Star, Line, Curve.
2. Click Polygon (or Star, or Oval). The piece lands in the hoop, selected.

Polygon starts with 6 sides, a hexagon. Star starts with 5 points. Use Sides or Points in properties to change that.

Pose it

With Move (the default after placing):

• Drag the piece to move it.
• Drag a corner handle to resize. Rotate from the rotation handle above the box.
• Flip horizontal and Flip vertical on the tool row under the top bar.
• Free resize lets the box change aspect. Click it to use Proportions locked.
• Snap lines up with nearby objects, the hoop, and the grid. Snap off drags freely.

A star or polygon can shrink to about 0.4 mm. Lines stay longer so they still sew.

Border satin

A new shape starts with Border on as Fine line, and Fill off. That is a light running stitch around the edge. Satin makes a padded column on that same edge.

1. Under Border stitch on the right, Fine line, Bean, and Satin are the everyday stitches. Satin is selected in this picture.
2. Satin width is how wide the edge column is. Drag it while you watch the hoop.

The hint says satin is a column on the edge, and that Fill covers the inside. Leave Fill Off for a hollow badge. Click Thread under Fill when you want the middle stitched.

Bean is a triple stitch along the same path. Bean stitches sets how many times each stitch is sewn (3, 5, or 7). Fine line and Bean use Stitch size instead of width: 1.5 to 7 mm for Fine line (the long end is for basting), 0.2 to 4.5 mm for Bean. Drag the slider, or type a value in the box beside it.

Fill the inside

Fill is below Border in the same column. It has three chips: Off, Thread, and Appliqué.

1. Under Fill, click Thread.
2. Open Fill type. Tatami (Parallel) is the usual solid fill. There are decorative styles too.
3. Drag Density toward Tight for closer rows, or Open for more space. To set an exact row spacing, type it in mm in the box.

The Tatami hint: Space between rows. Each stitch along a row is about 4 mm.

Tighter rows use more thread, and can feel stiffer on a knit.

Appliqué fills the shape with a piece of fabric instead of stitches: see Appliqué.

Fill needs a closed shape. Line and Curve cannot fill until you use Convert to Outline.

Two thread colors

Fill and border can each have their own thread. That is how a gold star gets a red edge.

1. Under Fill, pick a fill thread.
2. Under Border, pick a different border thread.

Add threads in Settings if the color you want is not in the list.

Points, sides, and the other tools

With a Star selected, properties show Points and Point depth.

1. Click + or − on Points (3 to 12).
2. Drag Point depth toward Deep for sharper points, or Shallow for a fuller star.

Polygon has Sides instead of Points. 3 is a triangle, 4 a square, 6 a hexagon.

• Oval: ellipse. Same border and fill as the hexagon.
• Line and Curve: centerline strokes. Border Satin follows the path. Use Convert to Outline when that stroke should become a filled ribbon.
• Edit on the tool row turns a parametric shape into nodes you can drag. Done leaves Edit.

Draw is the free path tool, for anything that is not a regular oval or star.

Play Simulator after you change stitches. Save a .breeze file before you export.

The full stitch menus are in Stitches and fills.