[amayausers] Re: Hello & hooping

This is by far the easiest question posted here in a while!
Hoop a close as you can with the hoop and you can mark your garment first where you want the design to sew. either pin it or mark it with tape or fabric marker, chalk
what have you...

Then the only real trick is to eyeball the side wings (clamping metal edges)
to make sure they are at a right angle otherwise your design won't be level.

Put it into the machine and use the trace function,
(hoop button and Star button at the same time)
the laser will show you where the design will sew.
then you hold down the hoop button and use the directional
arrows to align the laser dot to the center point of the design
and trace again to make sure its right,
I usually align first then trace (not sure why I wrote it backwards)
you can keep going through this process over and over again
until your happy with the  results and hit start.
on the next garment of the same design, you can't trace
anymore without resetting the design but you can move the hoop
with the hoop button and arrows until it hits you predetermined mark
and hit start. this can also be repeated until your happy, just no tracing.

Try it, and you'll see how cool this laser tracing is,
no more crashing hoops with the needle!!

P.S. Welcome Aboard!

Ron Vinyard
Body Cover / Magic Stitches
1-888-435-0176
541-471-1504
fax 471-0427

420 SW H street
Grants Pass, OR 97526

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www.bodycoverdesign.com
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Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:29 PM
Subject: [amayausers] Hello & hooping 


Hello,
I just got my AMAYA XT and Design Shop Pro Plus right
before Thanksgiving.  I have been monitoring the amaya
users group since the beginning of summer.  I have
already learned a ton of information and I have
printed out lots of hints that have been posted in
this group.  Thank you all!!  Sharon and Rod have also
been a great help to me.

I have been test stitching different designs and
playing with MT, bobbin tension etc.  I am finally
happy with my stitch outs and I am ready to actually
do some shirts and a bag.  I do not yet have the
HoopMaster--it is on my list to get.  My question is,
how do I get things lined up properly so it stitches
in the right spot. Previously, I have used a D1
machine and I had a template and center marks on all
side of the hoop.  I don't see any templates for my
hoop or any markings on the hoops to help me align
things.  I figure I can use my old templates to mark
on the garment where I want center and then the x and
y middle points. I'm guessing I will have to measure
and mark on the hoops myself where the center of the
sides of my hoop are.??  On my D1 I could line the
needle up with the center mark on my garment if my
hooping job wasn't perfect. That way I would
definitely start stitching from the center point.  Is
there any way to do this on the AMAYA??

Hope my questions are not silly.  Its a big change
going from the D1 to the AMAYA.

Again, Thanks for all the help I've already gotten and
for all the future help.  This user group is
definitely a GREAT SUPPORT SYSTEM!!!

Susan Riedlinger
Embroidery Station
Columbus, OH



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