[amayausers.com] Re: HELP with stitching a slick covering on a jacket

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You need to make your horizontal and vertical marks with with sewing chalk, 
extend them far enough to go past your hoop. On your hoop, using a tsquare, 
mark off the center top and bottom and side to side on your hoop with a marking 
pen. Now you have lines to match up to. This will prevent the off alignment you 
are having because you will be able to line up both the chalk marks and the 
hoop marks to center it all.
I use adhesive backing, cut into 1/2" strips and wrapped around both parts of 
the hoop- like a tennis racquet on the back hoop, and line the inside of the 
top hoop. Now you have something to 'grab' that slippery stuff.
Hoop with a good stiff backing, and create a fast 'outline' of your entire 
design as the first thing that sews. It has to be 'inside' the design, don't 
try to go right to the edge. Outline and then cross in the center-this 'ties' 
your jacket down in place before it sews anything else. Then make sure your 
design is sewing from the 'center' out to the edges-that allows material to get 
'pushed' away from the center-helping prevent puckering. Watch out for high 
density and tight lettering-that also increases puckering. After wards, you can 
go over it with a hand steamer-that will help relax it. I have looked at satin 
type jackets done by competitors and in stores-and most of them have the 
puckering...not much you can do about it. Add a mesh backing and see if that 
helps-it works wonders on teeshirts.

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