[amayausers] Re: messy letters on terry towels
- From: "Cheryl Rotter" <tsiemb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:11:45 -0800
Sandra,
I would switch to a sharp needle, in addition to Roland's suggestions.
Cheryl Rotter
Team Sports Ink
5111 Grumann Dr. Ste #1B
Carson City, NV 89706
775-884-3550
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[mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roland R. Irish
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:08 PM
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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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