Comments on: Shoppe Tips and Tricks ~ Circular Stitches

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:52:13 +0000

Oh, I also tried this technique using ribbon & it worked perfectly without distorting the image too much.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:50:03 +0000

I saw a comment where someone did something similar to what I did. But it wasn’t quite the same. I just opened a piece of paper in Photoshop, then dragged my stitching onto the page. The edges of the stitching went a little past the edge of the paper. I went up to filter>distort>polar coordinates & made sure that the rectangular to polar option was selected. Hit OK & it automatically creates a circle out of my horizontal stitching. Love it!

By: Casharina

Casharina — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:11:48 +0000

you’re welcome…I did FORGET to add that it needs to be horizontal sorry, THANKS!! Also Julie, make sure you are changing the % part at the TOP of the screen where it has H for Height it’s set on 100% normally but you need to change it to 200% or bigger for thicker stuff!

I know…I was SOOO stinkin’ excited when I figured out how to do it!! :) I’d been looking FOREVER to learn!!

By: Kylie

Kylie — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:26:09 +0000

Thanks so much for the tip Casharina! :o)
Just to add….for polar coodinates it works best if you start with the stitching/ric rac etc at HORIZONTAL not vertical (just to avoid confusion with Trish’s example for Shear).

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:48:31 +0000

Thanks for replying and for sharing!!! So basically you need to have your element extend past the edges of your canvas. Then make it extend 200% more if it’s thicker like ricrac. Then do the Filter-Distort-Polor Coordinates. On mine, if I extended the element the extra % then after it made the circle I had to Ctrl+T to strech it back into a circle.

This is SO cool and SO easy. THANK YOU!

By: Casharina

Casharina — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:42:51 +0000

okay…sorry, I’m not great at describing without pictures! ;) lol

You just need to “stretch” your stitch, you want to make it extend past the paper, so make sure you hold ALT while you do it so that it makes it even all ways, and drag from ONE side. Don’t forget AFTER doing that you need to change the Height to 200%, if it’s something thick or big you may need to change it to 300%, it looks funny at first but it works when you make the circle, And THEN click accept or enter.

LMK if that helps any at all. :)

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:31:00 +0000

I must be doing something wrong because I can’t get this to work. I get something that looks like a ripples of water — semi circles getting bigger and bigger. I think maybe I’m messing up at the “take your cursor and drag it over on the sides holding down the ALT button, make sure to make it extend a little past your paper or it won’t hook together” part. If you could redescribe this that would be super. Thanks.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:09:00 +0000

WOW, thanks for sharing such a fun tip. I’m so excited to try this out. You guys are awesome!

By: Trish

Trish — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:34:36 +0000

I don’t know anything about the RSS feeds, but thanks, I’ll pass that along. :)

By: sb

sb — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:22:20 +0000

Just a heads-up — your RSS feed doesn’t seem to be working.