There are lots of different effects that you can create when you are digitizing your designs to make them even more 3-dimensional and textural, one of those is to add embroidered fringe. While this effect is very dramatic, it is actually very easy. Once you determine where you want to place the fringe within your design you digitize a wide column stitch, one side of that column will determine where the fringe will be attached to the garemnt and the other side of the column will determine the length of the fringe. Along the edge of the column where you want to attach it to the garment you digitize a second thin column, this will serve as an anchor to hold that side of the column firmly to the garment. After you finish sewing out the design you merely turn the garment inside out and snip the bobbin thread from the wide column stitch which frees the threads in the front of the garment and you have fringe. If you have trimmers on your machine make sure they are turned off before you sew out the wide column stitch.