Blends — Gradient fills across up to three colors
What is a Blend?
Section titled “What is a Blend?”A gradient fill across up to three colors within one fill region, with control over where each color sits and how soft the transitions between them are — useful for shading, sky gradients, or any area that shouldn’t read as one flat color.
How do I turn a fill into a Blend?
Section titled “How do I turn a fill into a Blend?”Tap Blend in the object’s action grid (or a group’s action grid, for a blend that spans several fill objects together).
What does the BlendGradientBar do?
Section titled “What does the BlendGradientBar do?”It’s the main control surface, shown in the group inspector once a Blend exists: drag a divider between two color zones to redistribute how much space each color gets across the gradient; tap a divider (instead of dragging it) to open a softness slider for that specific transition, so you can make one boundary crisp and another very soft in the same blend.
What do the per-layer sliders control?
Section titled “What do the per-layer sliders control?”Each color layer in the blend has its own position, softness, and intensity sliders, on top of the shared divider controls — for fine-tuning one color’s presence in the gradient independently of the others.
What are “Flow lines” in a Blend?
Section titled “What are “Flow lines” in a Blend?”The same Flow tool shared with plain Fill fields: draw a guide line across the shape and the stitch rows bend to follow it, rather than running in one fixed compass direction — useful when a gradient needs to follow a curved form (a cheek, a wave) rather than a straight scanline angle. In a Blend it can be set once at the group level so every color layer follows the same guide.
Can I change or lock the angle for a whole group of blended fills?
Section titled “Can I change or lock the angle for a whole group of blended fills?”Yes — angle can be locked at the group level so every member fill shares one consistent direction, with the axis re-derived automatically as you adjust it, rather than having to match each member’s angle by hand.
Can I copy a Blend recipe to another fill?
Section titled “Can I copy a Blend recipe to another fill?”Yes — copy the blend “recipe” (colors, positions, softness) from one fill and paste it onto a different fill shape, rather than rebuilding the same gradient by hand each time.
Can I combine a Blend with Sashiko?
Section titled “Can I combine a Blend with Sashiko?”No — Blend and Sashiko are mutually exclusive on the same object.