Fading Effect

You mazy or may not have an automatic way to use you rsoftware for a fade but you can digitize it manually. It is critical to keep your stitch direction the same from block to block, preferabl horizontal. I will sometimes print the design out and draw on it so I know where I am. I also use very contrasting colors on the screen and change to the real colors on teh machine. Just for instance assume you are going to fade a tall rectangle from black to red that is 4" tall and 1" wide. I start with the darker color first so I would make a 1" X 3" block of black with no underlay and and density of 1/3rd my normal density. On my software I use a densite of 4.5 but your software may read 45 or something similar. I place my starting point at the top and ending point for that block 1" below that. For my next block I make a 1" X 2" block over the bottom 2" and then the third block is 1" X1" over the bottom one inch of the block. Now I have a faded block from solid black at the bottom to a skimpy black at the top. Usine the same technique from the top do the red the same way. Then you will have in integrated block fading from red to black. I have successfully used even four colors.
I hope that makes sense. I thought I had an image of a great one on my website but it isn't there. I don't know how to post an image to this site but if you need to see what I did I could send it to you direct I think.
Good luck,
Susan