How to use the Baseball Lobster stroke script in Embrilliance

The Baseball Lobster stroke is a satin script embroidery font. It is built so a name can stitch as one continuous line, the way a pen would write it. Each letter is digitized three times: a First Letter, Intermediate Letters, and a Last Letter. Use those three shapes in order and the entry, the joins, and the exit stroke land where they belong.

Three listings share this lettering. The Lobster Baseball stroke Satin Stitch Embroidery Font is the single-color stroke. The Lobster Two Color Satin Stitch Embroidery Font is the same script with a second thread color on the edge. Baseball font Embroidery Playball V2 is the same baseball script in one color. Type all three the same way in Embrilliance.

What is in the download

Each font arrives as one ZIP. Inside it are native BX files for Embrilliance, plus PES, DST, JEF, EXP, HUS, VP3, and XXX. BX is the file you type with. The other formats are what you send to the machine after the word is finished. If you have not installed a BX font before, start with how to install a BX font.

The two-color Baseball sample below is digitized at 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.5 inches. The single-color stroke and Playball V2 also include 0.5 and 0.75 inch files, up to 2.5 inches. Stay inside the heights printed on the font page you bought. Stretching a 1 inch satin script up toward 4 inches opens the columns, and shrinking it packs the stitches.

Why the letters are split in three

A connecting script cannot use one shape in every place. The First Letter opens the word. In this font that opening letter is set to uppercase. The Intermediate Letters sit between the first and the last, and they are set to lowercase so they can meet their neighbors. The Last Letter closes the word with a clean exit stroke.

Take the word Baseball. B is the First Letter. The letters a, s, e, b, a, and l in the middle are Intermediate Letters. The final l is the Last Letter, with the exit stroke. You do not pick those styles one by one. When you type the word, the first letter is set to uppercase and the middle letters are set to lowercase for you.

Type the word in Embrilliance

Unzip the download first. Embrilliance cannot install a font that is still inside the ZIP. Drag the BX file for the size you want onto the white design page. In the lettering panel the 1 inch file is named Lobster 1 inch. Then open the text field and type the word.

1. Type the First Letter as part of the word. The opening letter is set to uppercase on its own. On Baseball, that is the B, with the long entry into the rest of the name.
2. Let the Intermediate Letters stay lowercase. Every letter between the first and the last is set to lowercase so the joins can meet. On Baseball, that is a, s, e, b, a, and the l before the last letter.
3. Finish with the Last Letter. The final character carries the exit stroke. Leave it as the end of the word you typed. Do not add a second copy of that letter.
4. Adjust and align. Slightly overlap the tail of one letter with the entrance of the next. That small overlap is what makes the satin read as one line instead of a row of separate letters.
5. Preview the word. Run the stitch simulator. Watch the entry, each join, and the exit stroke. If a gap shows, move that letter a little closer. If a join piles up, move it a little apart. Stop when the word looks like handwriting.
6. Save and stitch. Export the format your machine reads, load that file, and stitch. Brother and Baby Lock use PES. Janome uses JEF. Singer uses XXX. Commercial machines often use DST. See which file your machine uses.

A plain cursive, without the long swash

The same font can stitch as a standard cursive script. The long swash stays off the word when you mark the start and the end with the space bar.

In the Syntax text field, type a space, then the word, then another space. It looks like this, with the word space standing for one press of the space bar: spaceYourWordspace. Then press Enter. The opening space and the closing space drop the long underline, so the letters run as ordinary cursive.

Watch the steps

The short tutorial follows the same order: type the word, check the joins, then save the file your machine reads.

Play the tutorial

Baseball Lobster stroke script in Embrilliance. Watch it on YouTube.

Mistakes that break the script

• Leaving a visible gap between letters. This satin script needs that small overlap.
• Scaling the 1 inch BX file up to a much larger height. Use the digitized size instead.
• Sending the BX file to the embroidery machine. Install BX in Embrilliance, then export PES, DST, JEF, EXP, HUS, VP3, or XXX.
• Typing the spaces in the wrong field. The plain cursive uses the Syntax text field, then Enter.
• Hooping a stretchy shirt with no cutaway stabilizer. A satin script pulls if the fabric shifts.

Questions

Do I switch letter styles by hand? No. Type the word. The first letter is set to uppercase, and the intermediate letters are set to lowercase.

Which size should I start with? One inch is the size shown in the Embrilliance panel above. Move up to 1.5, 2, or 2.5 inches when the name needs to read from farther away, and use 0.5 or 0.75 inch only when that file is included and the letters still read clearly in the simulator.

Can I stitch a single initial? Yes. Type the one letter and preview it. A single letter will not show the long connecting swash of a full word.

Where do I ask if a join still looks wrong? Write through the contact form and name the font, the size, and the word you typed.

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