[amayausers] Re: converting sating stitches to fill stitches
- From: "Jeff Banks" <banksje@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:47:18 -0700
Barbara,
I do not know who your digitizer is, but what you were told is usually the
opposite of what is normally told people about lettering. Usually you here
small lettering should be hand digitized. 1.5" lettering is not that big
when you think about it. Many shops I know sew 3 and 4 inch letters, using
fills, and outlines around the fills all the time. They use some of the
Athletic Lettering alphabets in the Design Shop software. Now, with that
said, usually they do some editing to clean it up they want it to sew, but
do not have to hand digitize the entire designs.
To clear up what you were told, I would ask your digitizer to send you
examples of what they are talking about and explain it to you why it should
be digitized?
A fill is always going to sew more stitches. Instead of one stitch per line
of sewing, called Satin stitches, a fill is going to sew multiple stitches
per line. How many stitches is going to depend on the type of fill used,
density settings, and the stitch length used in the fill. The type of
underlay used is going to depend on the garment being sewn on.
There is a lady by the name of Janel Harris who monitors this list and does
training on Melco software and teaches digitizing etc. She emailed me this
AM asking if she could get involved and if it was ok to mention a feature
that will be added to the 2006 software called Auto Split for columns. I
think you will be hearing from her sometime today.
Sincerely,
Jeff Banks
Melco Embroidery Systems
----- Original Message -----
From: "Avalon Embroidery" <avalonembroidery@xxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 9:11 AM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: converting sating stitches to fill stitches
Hi!
other than decreasing the density (if needed) there is no other "process"
that I am missing?
I never seemed to have had any problems converting before, but what my
digitizer said threw me for a loop! I was concerned that now anytime I have
large lettering it would have to be digitized! I was hoping that wasn't
the case.
Barbara
Avalon
----- Original Message -----
From: marnox
To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 8:05 AM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: converting sating stitches to fill stitches
Depending on the weight of the material, you may want to decrease the
density of your fill letters. I have done sample letter sew-outs on a scrap
of the target material - with decreasing density (which also cuts down the
stitch count) in each subsequent letter - to see how low a density still
looks good. Be sure to make note of which stitch-outs are which density.
Not only did this sample sew-out help decide how to handle the original
order, I show the stitch-outs to the customer each time I have a new
larger-letter job to help them decide what they want.
Maxine
Armax Digz-n-Stitch
armaxinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Avalon Embroidery
To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 8:01 AM
Subject: [amayausers] converting sating stitches to fill stitches
Hi All!
I was wondering if someone could give me some info. on the following. I
have a customer who needs to have some jackets done. (not nylon this time!)
She wants text only on the back of the jacket done in a "western style".
The larger letters are approx. an inch and a half tall. I just used one of
the fonts that comes with design shop (not a true type font) I noticed that
the stitch count more than doubled when I changed from satin to fill.
The person that I use for digitizing looked at it and said that the
larger letters have to be digitized. (and they are only 1 1/2" tall) He
said that the fonts that are digitized as satin stitches will still follow
that same pattern as a satin stitch when converted to fill causing the
lettering to "bunch up" on the fabric when sewing out and it would cause
endless thread breaks while sewing. (though I have changed satin to fill
before for directors chair backs to 2" and it sewed out great, just with a
bazillion stitches)
Is this really the case? I was wondering if maybe I am just converting
the satin to fill stitches incorrectly? I would just enter the font and
then go into fill and change it from satin to fill. Is there a way to
change and not have such a high stitch count? I certainly can understand an
increase in stitches, but for it to more than double?
Barbara
Avalon Embroidery
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