Good call! Love Chris

Now you really are making me anxious to stitch out your latest. You are an inventor. Thanks on both the design and a new technique.

Well of course... makes perfect sense! thanks

See, I AM good for something after all. hahahahahaha!

I don't understand what you are talking about. Do you mean that you do a FSL design onto fabric to use like a regular design? Hope I can get back to this question to find out the answer. Without my tabs to check mark things I can't find them again. Please, someone get back the check mark tabs!

Well you are allowed to call it whatever you like ,and i like it :):):)hugs

Thank you for clearing up the confusion...we all LOVE new innovators! ~Rita

I'm glad we have people like you who are so creative! Great designs!

If it is thread sewn on wss that washes out, no matter if it's lacy or more filled, and all that is left is thread, it is a FSL . To come up with something else to call it is just confusing, shown by the multitude of questions asking for an explanation. I've been doing this for over 12 years, and have never heard of it. Free standing design would be sewn on organza or netting for a base, instead of thread.

Lace is lace. A design is a design. So FSLace and FSDesign. Does it really matter? Love them all. Shirley

Whatever its called, I love it!!! Hugs, Judy

I think it is okay to recognize that FSL has now progressed into different types. That's typical of everything new. We have FSL Filet Crochet: it's a little different style. So, why not delineate between others types of FSL? Perhaps just FSL Full Cover would explain it. They aren't very lacy. That's how communication progresses, just like all the wonderful new ways we are using our machine embroidery machines.

ORIGINALITY IS THE BASIS OF GROWING. I still think this is lovely.

After all this discussion I can't wait to see the design. Can someone tell me where to go look for it? Thanks.

One of the designs in question

Why not just call it Free Standing? After reading this whole post, I can see where confusion can set in from just initials. If someone has not read all thia, they might not try the designs. I embroider designs on organza,mirror imaged, and glue the 2 together to make a design that is not on a garment, but it is not free standing. I also have dense fsl designs that clearly let me know what materials I need to sew them properly. Aren't we here to help make this great artistic expression through embroidery easier for everyone, since there is no master manual to follow?

Thanks, I really don't understand but the design is great. Arlene

Free Standing Lace designs are digitized in such a way that when the water soluble stabilizer is washed out of the designs the stitches all hold together.
It doesn't matter how many layers of stitches the design has or how many stitches it has in total.

It doesn't matter if the design is a more open type or fully covered in stitches.

Usually there is a base of stitches that form a contiuous grid that all other stitches in the design stitch over top of in one or more layers to form the design.

You can make regular embroidery designs into a Free Standing Designs by simply stitching them on Tulle or Organza fabric and then cutting away the excess fabric from around the design.
This is not the same as Free Standing Lace!

Dollygk your designs in question are Free Standing Lace Designs!

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