[amayausers] Re: BG stretch poplin & puckering
- From: "Sandra Walker" <aece@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:28:45 -0500
Hi Anand,
Thank you for the suggestions. You brought up some interesting solutions,
especially
sewing from the middle out.
Appreciate your help,
Sandra Walker
A&E Custom Embroidery
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kesavan" <kesavan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 4:46 PM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: BG stretch poplin & puckering
> With the fabric you are getting the hoop tension just right. It is
> important not to stretch the garment too much on the hoop at the same time
> there must be no slack fabric inside the hoop. If you can mimick the way
> the
> sample fabric is stretched and hooped with the garment you will get the
> same
> effect when you embroidier on both. Also try substituting one of the
> layers
> of cut away with poplin. It also helps to have the design sewing from in
> out
> as in caps.
>
> Anand
>
>
> Good morning all,
> I'm having an issue that I wonder if someone could help me with: When
> sewing
> on Blue Generation's new 3/4 sleeve stretch poplin blouse (BG6218), I have
> trouble with puckering. The shirt is a cotton/poly/spandex (58% C /39% P
> /3%
> S) blend.
>
> It happens to some degree with every design that I've sewn on this shirt.
> I've also seen this puckering on a design sewn by another embroidery shop
> on
> the same shirt.
> When I run a test sewout on material with a very similar fabric content it
> looks fine, with little puckering. Then run the design on the shirt, and I
> get puckering. I reduce the density of the designs as much as possible
> which
> helps on some designs, but it doesn't always work. The same designs sew
> out
> fine on other types of shirts.
>
> I've had to redo some shirts for one customer. She insisted on .5"
> lettering, Athletic Flair font, although I advised against lettering that
> big.
>
> Of course, she was unhappy with the results, so I changed to Boffo-Dak,but
> still am not happy with the results. Again, a test sewout on material with
> a
> very similar fabric content it looks fine, but the actual shirt sewout
> puckers a lot. The most recent settings I used were:
> Boffo-Dak font
> size .5"e
> density 4.5 (4.6 didn't cover well enough)
> centerwalk 30 underlay
> short stitches off
> column width 150%
> 3 pcs 2 oz cutaway backing
>
> Any ideas? Your help would be very much appreciated!
> Have a great week!
> Sandra Walker
> A&E Custom Embroidery
> 936.588.1015 800.291.6953
>
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