Lovely design. Who is the designer?
Hugs, Lidia

It's very cute Sarah - love it! Love Chris

Hi Sarah, I've seen some designs like that, and I've wondered too. I know with the software I have, PEdesign5, I haven't been able to figure out how to control where the stitches begin and end, and travel to the next section. Even when I try to do FSL, I have to jump through lots of hoops, and adjust lots of stitches so there aren't all these wild stitches underneath. It takes a long, long time to move all those stitches, and then sometimes, my work will NOT save, It says it saves, like the color order, but after going in and setting it up just right, it may, or may not save the order. Grrrrrrrr It's really frustrating. I'd love to have software that would make FSL easy. Jan

It depends a lot on the experience of the digitiser and the software they are using.
Most beginners have no idea about 'mapping' a design to minimise jump stitches.
NOW, after having said this, some jump stitches may be totally unavoidable, it all depends on the type of design.
If the elements of the design have a great space between them, where there is nowhere to hide the joining stitches, well you certainly would not want running stitches visible across you design, would you?

The design above is the kind that would lend itself to having somewhere to hide joining stitches because it is compact and has no large gaps.

My idea of digitising is that I would rather have a jump stitch than a colour change, it is much quicker to snip a jump stitch than re-thread the machine. BUT, wherever possible, I will use running stitches and try to minimise jumps, and use jump stitches to try to minimise colour changes.

I hope this helps clarify just ONE of the problems digitisers have to solve to create better designs.
hugs n roses, Meganne

Yes, lovely design. I would most likely have it. I will have to have a look.

I purchased some designs once and they had this.
I agree they where very nice but if you notice it takes planning for the order of things to do this.
I suppose sometimes this works better but probably not for fsl in different colors- those running stitches would show through.

My machine cut the large jump stitches so I would rather have large one than the very small one it does not cut thoes. It also threads itself so I don't mind color changes either. But I don' t digitize either so I not up on all the goes in to it, always thankfull for thoes who do digitize and gives us there work. Thank you.

I agree with Meganne :-)
I will always use a running stitch where possible to avoid jump stitches.. sometimes they just cannot
be avoided
Big hugs - Maria xx

This really is beautiful! Glad you showed it.

I try to avoid jump stitches as much as I possibly can, but it is not always possible.

It might be easy in a compact design, but a couple of flowers scattered along some stems are more difficult. By carefully mapping stems and leaves you can avoid jumps there, but then you'll might be obliged to have jumps between flowers. And when your flowers are a pale colour the darker green might be visible underneath the flower. So it's a matter of choice depending on the design.

If you have a look at my flower design (see link) you'll notice there's only one jump in the design, between the dark green veins in the leaves, the rest is all connected.