NOTES ENTERING A FILL STITCH Before we learn how to control a fill stitch, we need to know how to create one. The good news is that you already know how. You enter a fill stitch along a path the exact same way that you would enter a running stitch. The only difference is the way you finish it. When you finish clicking through a running stitch path you are done when you click the last point and the thread will finish where you last clicked. This means it can be an open design - your last click doesn’t necessarily have to be next to your first click. Fill stitches are entered along the same path, outlining the shape, but you will need to close the shape, placing your last point by the first. The other difference is, when you are finished, you need to choose where it will start stitching, stop stitching, and then choose the angle of stitches. To put it simply, you are outlining an area with your path, whether it is curved or straight and then the stitch generator in your software will fill the outlined area with stitches. It is that simple. What isn’t simple is choosing your start and stop points and your stitch angle. We will cover start and stops first, and then get to angles later in this chapter. Here are a few examples of different fill paths, a straight and a curved. EXAMPLE 1 - STRAIGHT Art: DU-FSbasics1 INCLUDED ART
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