Enter the desired thread number up to 13 characters long. This should be a unique thread number in My Thread Databases.
Enter the desired thread name, which usually a description of the color. The thread name can be up to 29 characters long.
Choose from the following thread types in the drop-down menu:
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Choose from the following thread weights in the drop-down menu:
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The number in parentheses is used to indicate the thread weight in the abbreviation for the Thread Range.
Use one color in the thread. Change the thread color as desired.
Click the color block to select the color in the Colors Dialog Box.
Create a multicolor thread. Use more than one color in the thread. You can change and add colors, and the length of the color sections.
Smooth Blend alters the way the colors in a variegated thread change from one to the next.
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If Smooth Blend is selected (checked), the colors are blended across the point where they meet, so that the change from one color to the next is smooth.
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If Smooth Blend is not selected (unchecked), the color change is abrupt between one color and the next.
The color list shows the colors that make up variegated threads, and the length of each color section in mm. For newly added threads, there will be one color in the list, set to red with a length of 1mm.
Select a block and change the color in the Colors Dialog Box. Choose a color for your new thread, or set the first color if it is a variegated thread.
The first color in a Variegated thread has a length of 1mm. If desired, change the length from the 1mm default. Enter a length in mm from 1mm to 1000mm.
Select the number for a color and click the up and down arrows, or enter a number, to change the length of the color along the thread.
Subsequent colors will initially be red (RGB 255, 0, 0), and will use the color length of the color above.
Add 
a color to the variegated thread colors.
Click Add Color 
, then click the color block to select the desired color in the Colors Dialog Box, and to select the color length.
Delete 
a color from the variegated thread. There is no confirmation. If there is only one color, it will not be deleted.
Select the number for a color in the list and then click Delete Color 
to remove it.
Use Move Up 
and Move Down 
to move colors up and down the list of colors.
Select the number for a color in the list and then click Move Up 
to move it up the list of colors, and Move Down 
to move it down the list of colors.
Preview your selected colors as an embroidery and as thread.
Enter the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values for the color in the Quick RGB number fields.
See Red, Green, Blue (RGB) Color Model.
Use Copy RGB Values 
to copy the current thread RGB values to paste into a spreadsheet or text document.
Four numbers are saved:
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Red value
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Green value
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Blue value
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Color length for a Variegated thread.
If a Variegated thread is selected, the values for all of the colors in the thread are copied.