There is nothing wrong with using the same design within multiple locations on a garment. In the example above I used two coordinating floral borders from my "Dress Up Your Designs" collection and by copying, reversing and rotating them, created a very rhythmic larger border design. I then used that same design on both the side of the trousers and the alternate side of the jacket. Even though the placements on both the jacket and the trousers are both very vertical, because the are placed on opposite sides of the two garment pieces, they create the illusion of a diagonal design. This can have a very pleasing and slimming effect. When you are embroidering on different coordinating garment pieces make sure that you take into consideration how the two embroidery designs and placements will work together to create a pleasing whole. I used Compositions project based embroidery design software to create this design because it is the only software program available that allows you to plan out your design on the actual garment. At a price of only $164.99 it is an affordable add on the your suite of embroidery software. To order the software so that you too can quickly and easily acheive perfect placement and proportion every time go to http://www.annthegran.com/kenparsons_index.html