When you are designing embroidery for fashion and home decor your placement choice and the proportion of the design to the garment or home decor item are both crucial ingredients.
Depending on what your ultimate design goals are these two aspects will vary drastically from design to design.
For example if you are adding embroidery to your garment to make yourself look thinner, you might want to choose to create a rather large design and either place it diagonally as in the example to the left or vertically either in the center of the garment or off center, both work equally well.
These two techniques work equally well for different reasons. When we choose a diagonal placement it serves to force the eye to travel diagonally from top to bottom in in a fluid sweep focussing on the embroidery and not the garment, thus elongating the overall shape.
When you choose a central vertical placement the embroidery puts emphasis on the embroidery and the shape of the embroidery is noticed first and the shape of the garment fades into the background. When you choose an off center vertical placement, you are essentially dividing the garment into thirds vertically. Two thirds are blank and one third is embroidered. It doesn't matter which area the eye is drawn to whether it is the embroidered area or the blank areas the overall effect is still slimming. To see how easily you can combine designs together to create the ideal effect quckly and easily using Compositions project based embroidery software and actually see how it works on the garment before you stitch it out go to www.kenparsonsdesigns.com