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MommaK
I lurk mostly but I know you've answered one of my questions before. I have another one 
Embroidery/applique:
If you are stitching out something like this and are going to applique it on another piece of fabric like a shirt - how do you do that with the edge already being done? You can't really sew over it again with the zig zag stitch and if you stiched a regular stich on the inside of the border the edges would be lose.
Is my only option iron on? I'd rather have it stitched on the shirt. Sorry if this is silly, I'm new to all this and feeling soooo lost!!!
PCOS and Endo
Ovarian drilling and endo removed 1/3/12
BFP - 3/27/12
Beta's 11, 14, 57, 637, 2800
Sono showed no baby and teeny tiny sac. Waiting to M/C naturally.
Re: MommaK
::butting in because I'm bored::
What the machine does is does a straight stitch to show you where it's going to go. Then, you put the fabric on there to cover the straight stitch and then it does another straight stitch. You trim outside that line as close as you can get, then the machine does the satin stitch.
I'm not sure that every embroidery machine does this, but my MIL just figured out how to do it on her machine and she can't stop using it.
TTC Baby #2 - BFP on 12/14/11 @ 10DPO - CP confirmed 12/18/11
BFP #2 on 1/13/12
So you do the straight stitch on the t-shirt, then would put the orange fabric on the shirt, it does the same straight stitch on the orange fabric tacking it to the shirt in essence. Then I trim and then it does the satin stitch.
I have no idea if I bought that embroidery design if it would do it. The ones I've done before don't stitch out like that.
PCOS and Endo
Ovarian drilling and endo removed 1/3/12
BFP - 3/27/12
Beta's 11, 14, 57, 637, 2800
Sono showed no baby and teeny tiny sac. Waiting to M/C naturally.
The embroidery machine does all of it for you. If you don't have an embroidery machine that does appliques like that, then that design wouldn't work. Hopefully Momma.K can either a) verify that I'm right or b) tell me to stop talking out of my behind.
TTC Baby #2 - BFP on 12/14/11 @ 10DPO - CP confirmed 12/18/11
BFP #2 on 1/13/12
Ok, you tube to the rescue! I found a video that shows it.
I think why my machine didn't do it before it that I was doing a straight up embroidery design, not applique design. I think that's the difference.
THINK is the key word there
PCOS and Endo
Ovarian drilling and endo removed 1/3/12
BFP - 3/27/12
Beta's 11, 14, 57, 637, 2800
Sono showed no baby and teeny tiny sac. Waiting to M/C naturally.
Post by post, you are both on the right track.
I didn't see the you-tube video but watch this one, too.
Basically designs like this are specifically FOR applique and are done right on the garment/shirt. The machine first stitches the outline so you can use it as a pattern to cut out the pumpkin/whatever. Then the machine stitches it again so that you can apply the cutout fabric design inside the dieline. The machine then "does it's thing", stitching the eyes, mouth, lines, leaves, etc. After all that, it does the satin applique stitching all around. Then you just tear away the stabilizer and voila! Applique!
There is another method, and that is to do all of the stitching and then cut the fabric away. This is not my favorite method; you have to have a very steady hand and special scissors.
1- Yes, it has to be an applique specific design to work.
2-Any/all embroidery machines will do it. Emo, I think what you may be confused about (?) is that the machine is the Worker Bee; the design is the Queen Bee. In other words, any embroidery machine can do anything that it is told to do by the design which has been digitized on the computer and then brought to the machine.
I hope I made this clear. I can walk the walk, but can't always talk the talk. KWIM?? If I can help any other way, let me know.
L'isle Sur la Sorgue, Provence
You did great! I'm REALLY REALLY excited now because this is so much easier than I thought it would be. I have a brother inovis 1250d and am in love with the embroidery stuff but I haven't done applique yet. I just discovered that applique almost does it all for you. I thought I had to trace, cut out the fabric and miracuously sew straight and curved lines around the design. So happy that I don't.
Etsy and pinterest have consumed my life now, lol! Thank you again!
PCOS and Endo
Ovarian drilling and endo removed 1/3/12
BFP - 3/27/12
Beta's 11, 14, 57, 637, 2800
Sono showed no baby and teeny tiny sac. Waiting to M/C naturally.
I think that I was just unclear because I was so unsure.
Also, I looked and my MIL has a PE-770, I think. Like I said, she just figured out how to do it and since I don't have one, I don't know how it works lol.
TTC Baby #2 - BFP on 12/14/11 @ 10DPO - CP confirmed 12/18/11
BFP #2 on 1/13/12