[amayausers] Re: design on caps

Hi Phyllis,
I will send a picture to your email address as the e-group does not receive 
attachments...too bad at times, as a picture, as they say is worth a 
thousand words. The picture is of a design I digitized for some Airborne 
guys to put on caps. I knew when I digitized it that I was pushing the 
vertical height to the max, the picture speaks for itself and addresses what 
you have described.

You have answered yourself, the lettering is too high on the cap. What is 
happening is the top of the cap is being stretched outward by the very end 
of the sewing arm and the front edge of the needle plate is distorting the 
cap.

How does the inside of the cap look? Can you see where the center seam 
material is being scuffed or worn, maybe even cut clear thru?

The solutions are to:
1. Reduce the size of the design a little.
2. Lower the design to the bottom of the sewing field...this still may not 
help completely,  if the design is still too large.
3. This one you must be very careful, and I say very careful with........you 
can disable your hoop limits in "Settings" and push the design even lower in 
the sewing
    field. You can only push this by maybe 1/4 inch and no more as now the 
presser foot is riding the slope of the center seam of the cap and will slip 
down the
    slope of the cap on the down stroke, push itself up against the back 
side of the needle and bingo, needle break for sure. So don't try pushing 
this too far.
    always remember to re-enable the hoop limit feature after completing the 
project!

The quality will always suffer on caps if the vertical height of the design 
is pushed too far, especially with lettering. The best quality will be seen 
if the design is kept at 2.25 in or under and even then, low or lower in the 
sewing field.

Rod

Embroidery Cottage
Rod & Sharon Springer
Melco Trained Amaya Tech/Trainer
Design Shop Pro+ Digitizing

Boise, ID  83713
208-938-3038
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PHYLLIS MCINTIRE" <PMCINTIRE@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:58 PM
Subject: [amayausers] design on caps


> Hi all,
> I put together a design for a customer and sometimes the design sews out 
> great and at other times the  top of the letters (only  the top word) come 
> out half  there and some not at all. I don't like wasting hats but husband 
> pushed me to do five.
> my question is why would the this happen to some and not all? and could 
> part of it be that it may have sewed too high on the cap?
> Thank you,
> Phyllis
> Crickets' Creations
>
>

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