1 easy way to change thread colors in a machine embroidery design

Yesterday on QUILTsocial we talked about the first steps to take when designing an embroidered miniature quilt on THE Dream Machine 2 from Brother. We imported six different block designs into the machine and they were converted into embroidery designs.

Let me show you how to recolor the blocks in my design to match the threads that I have on hand.

Here are the original colors of the block embroidery designs that were created yesterday by THE Dream Machine 2.

I’m using the Splendor rayon thread pack, Retro, to embroider my miniature quilt.

I want to be able to see what my block designs will look like in the thread colors that are included in the thread pack, so I’ll do the modifications from the “edit” screen.

I select the thread palette key on the edit screen.

The screen now shows all of the thread changes required to stitch the block designs. The up and down arrows are used to scroll through the different colors in the embroidery design.

When I press on the color I want to change and I can tell it’s been selected because the outline of the key is now blue.

Since we selected the “royal purple” key, the screen shows the royal purple section of the first quilt block embroidery design. Since each of the blocks is a separate embroidery design, I’m only changing the royal purple in the first block not all of the royal purple sections on the screen.

The thread palette is shown at the bottom of the edit screen. The new color can be selected from any of the colors shown. When a thread color is selected, that square becomes bigger than all of the others and the name of the color appears at the top of the palette. You can select the color by either touching the colored boxes or by using the arrows on the right side of the screen to scroll through the colors.

Once a new color is selected, the quilt block design on the screen will show what it will look like if stitched with that color choice, like pre screening…

As you can see I changed the colors in the embroidery design on the screen of THE Dream Machine 2 so that they closely match the threads in the WonderFil theme pack.

Here’s a close up of the six recolored block embroidery designs.

Now that the block embroidery designs are recolored, tomorrow I rearrange them into an actual quilt design. I can’t wait to get stitching my miniature quilt!