LEFT CHEST DIGITIZING
UK USA Friendship Flag Left Chest Embroidery Digitizing at 12,715 Stitches
A three-stop build where red lays in first for both flags’ stripes and cross bars, then royal blue fills the star field, the Union Jack ground, and the outer border frame in the file’s largest run, and white closes the file last for crisp stars and cross detail, so the flag reads clean at left chest scale. A 3.49 by 2.21 inch (width by height) UK USA Friendship Flag digitized in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio at 12,715 stitches, run across 3 stops in three thread colors to keep the diagonal flag split crisp on a left chest placement.
01 · Artwork receivedUK USA Friendship Flag artwork submitted for embroidery digitizing. 02 · Digitized file previewRendered preview showing how the diagonal flag split and blue border frame line up before a single stitch runs. 03 · Production worksheetWilcom EmbroideryStudio: 12,715 stitches, 3 colors, 3 stops, Tajima format. 04 · Finished stitch-outThe finished flag stitched out and photographed on fabric as proof of file quality.
Red first, white last: the 3-stop build behind the UK USA Friendship Flag
The UK USA Friendship Flag stitches in a planned sequence: red opens the file at stop one, laying in the American flag’s stripes and the British flag’s cross bars at 2,746 stitches. Royal blue follows at stop two, filling the American canton’s star field, the Union Jack’s navy ground, and the outer border frame that runs the full perimeter of the design, the single largest run in the file at 6,872 stitches. White closes the file at stop three, laying the American stars and the Union Jack’s white cross and saltire lines over the top at 3,095 stitches, so the fine detail sits clean above the color fields beneath it.
3 colors, 3 stops: why royal blue carries the largest run in the UK USA Friendship Flag
The worksheet shows 3 colors, 2 color changes, and 3 stops. Red, royal blue, and white each run once, with royal blue’s 6,872 stitches running more than double both red’s 2,746 and white’s 3,095, since blue covers the star field, the Union Jack ground, and the border frame in a single continuous stop. That one-run-per-color sequence keeps the file efficient, with only 14 trims needed to clean up thread between the three stops.
A digitized preview before a single stitch runs
Before a single stitch runs, the rendered preview shows exactly how the diagonal flag split, the star field, and the Union Jack’s cross and saltire lines register against each other. That’s the checkpoint where the flag proportions, the diagonal seam alignment, and the three approved thread colors get confirmed against the customer’s original artwork before the file moves to production. That’s what our free, unlimited revisions and preview step are for: catching any mismatch before it’s sewn into 12,715 stitches on the finished left chest.
Specs
- Techniques
- Diagonal flag-split fill, star field detail, Union Jack cross and saltire overlay
- Placement
- Left chest
- Finished size
- 3.49″ × 2.21″
- Stitch count
- 12,715
- Colors / stops
- 3 / 3
- Color changes
- 2
- Trims
- 14
- Max / min stitch length
- 8.4 mm / 0.3 mm
- Max jump
- 7.0 mm
- Bobbin thread
- 95.39 ft
- Thread
- Madeira Classic 40 (Red, Royal Blue, White)
- Format delivered
- Tajima (DST)
- Software
- Wilcom EmbroideryStudio – Level 3 Advanced
- Pricing tier
- Standard ($15)
- Turnaround band
- Rush (1-2 hour)
- Digitized by
- Jordan James
The full worksheet
Every number above traces back to this production sheet: the stop sequence and machine settings Wilcom EmbroideryStudio generated for the 3-stop, three-color build.
