It is incredibly important to design embroidery on the actual fabric color that it is being placed upon. This very delicate and subtly colored floral design would be lost on a pale base fabric but as you can see it practically jumps off the garment when placed on a black fabric. To see how you can use the base fabric color to add new excitement to your designs download a 30 day trial version of Compositions project based embroidery design software and see how easy it is to design appropriate and more effective designs when you are designing on the actual garments and colors upon which they are going to be embroidered.