[amayausers] Re: design on caps

Rod,

Thank you so much for that info. I absolutely forgot about the size it 
should be. I originally sewed it out on a 12cm hoop and then the husband set 
it for the hat hoop and so therefore it is actually still in the flat sew. 
or does that really matter? I thought I saw tear in the hats, or at least 
where it seemed to have tore away some of the material.

Phyllis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod or Sharon" <springer37@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:07 AM
Subject: [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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