[amayausers] Re: sewing on pique shirts

I normally use double backing on knit shirts, sometimes if I'm getting lots of breaks and the material is pretty thin I will go to 3 pieces of cutaway. I usually don't have to go to 4.5 -5 density as 3.8 - 4 usually works good for me.

Aaron Sargent
The Linen Barn
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Medford, OR
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 9:06 AM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: sewing on pique shirts


just wondering if I'm really doing something wrong, or if this is typical
with the rest of you.
Sewing out Arial font, .35 height-and a single 'line' under the lettering on
Port Authority and Gildan pique knit polos-I think about a 6 oz. weight,
nothing heavy.
With single cutaway backing, density at 4 (then tried 5) we had lots of
thread breaks.
Went to double layer of 2 oz cutaway, AND a layer of solvy, and also went in
and changed lettering from 4 to 4.5. Sewing out at density 5 and so far so
good!
Did have to tweak the needle a hair more to the angle and haven't had a
thread break on 9 shirts so far.
So is this typical for pique knits?
Roland

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