[Jed Hunsaker]

I don’t know if this is a new feature or not, but in After Effects you can just use the Pen tool and create a path. Then, you can change the path settings inside the shape stroke. I wanted like a cloth stitch effect, so I used a stroke width of 4.0, then I clicked the + button next to Dashes to set Dash @ 18.3. Click the + button one more time and you can change the Gap to 14.0. This gave me the effect I wanted and you can animate it as well.