Creating and Stitching Embroideries
"The embroidery is larger than the design size I had selected in Design Properties."
This may happen if you have French knots on the edges of your design. French knots are drawn by placing their center point on any point that snaps to half grid spacing. Therefore, if they are placed along the edges of the design, half the French knot will be outside the grid. If French knots are placed on all edges of the grid, the resulting embroidery will be larger than the design by the size of a French knot.
French knots are only scaled in comparison to the full cross size when the Cross Size in Design Properties is set between 2mm and 4mm. The French knots will not be any smaller or larger than they are at these limits.
"The embroidery seems to have too many stitches."
Check Design Properties to ensure you do not have a large number of strands for crosses and/or backstitch in the design. Increasing the number of strands will increase the number of stitches.
"The embroidery is very thick when it stitches out."
Check Design Properties to ensure you do not have a large number of strands for crosses and/or backstitch in the design. Increasing the number of strands will increase the density of stitches.
"There seem to be some very thick lines of stitching where I used backstitch in the design."
Standard Backstitch and Freehand Backstitch are drawn on two separate layers in mySewnet™ Cross Stitcher, but they are stitched out together if they are the same color. In addition to this, Freehand Backstitch can be placed in multiple layers over the same line, as long as the end points of each line are different.
This is used, for example, to place different colors of Freehand Backstitch on top of each other to secure the edges of lace. Each layer will stitch out separately according to the color order in the design, but the same thread color is used in the stitchout to give a single color to the lace effect.