[amayausers] Re: messy letters on terry towels
- From: "Sandra Walker" <aece@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:25:42 -0600
Roland, thanks for the great ideas. I especially like the noodle
explanation!
This is a big design-about 14,000 stitches inside a 14" hoop and mostly
lettering.
When you're talking about the background fill, do you mean that "magic box"
that I've heard about?
Awaiting your guidance, Obi Wan...
Sandra
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:08 PM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: messy letters on terry towels
> Hi Sandra....
> you are doing pretty much all you can do...
> my suggestions:
> if at all possible, convince the customer that the terrycloth towels
> is like trying to sew on a plate of noodles...some of them are just
> going to escape and not much you can do about it!
>
> Okay, they laughed at you.
> If possible, do a background fill-outline the entire area you are
> going to sew on-in Design shop do a manual 'stitch' right up close
> around the lettering, then convert to fill and do a very wide open
> fill-set your fill more as an underlayment and do it in the same
> color thread as the towel itself. Then sew your lettering on top of
> that and most of it will disappear if you do it right.
>
> Or, if you have some to test on-keep increasing the density and make
> the stitches shorter-get down to 3.6, 20 point stitch or so-with an
> underlayment of 25 point stitch, centerline and 80 % letter width.
> What you are trying to do is to tie down all those loose pile loops
> of the towel and get a smooth surface for your stitching to land (and
> stay) on top of.
> Last christmas we did a couple 'golf towels' for one woman-only 2 of
> them I think-and I actually ended up sewing the design twice-right on
> top of itself-instead of wasting time rebuilding the design. It was
> some clipart from the Dakota book and one word underneath-so instead
> of spending a half hour redigitizing and testing, I just sewed it and
> repeated. Came out great and she loved it! But for a quantity order-
> that would way increase your stitch count.
>
> You might also double up on the solvy and see if that helps hold it
> down.
> good luck-all else fails, turn the towel over and sew on the back of it!
>
> Roland
>
>
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