One thing I do for small lettering that I have to trim in between lettering is change the order of the lettering around. I try to make the jump stitches go from tiny, in between two letters to long maybe from one letter to another three letters over. that way I don't let the machine trim the longer stitches but when hand trimming it is way easier to grab and trim a longer jump than those tiny jumps between those small letters. also when possible I try to hand digitize small letters, that way I can decide the closest points to make my jump stitches. and definitely have used the, color-in jump stitches with colors that match the background color. Good Luck, Ron Vinyard Body Cover / Magic Stitches www.bodycoverdesign.com Grants Pass, Oregon 1-888-435-0716 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Itchin To Stitch" <itchin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:59 AM Subject: [amayausers] Re: Clipping Jump Stitches >I would probably do it if the jumps were really noticeable. I'm a little > anal about stuff like that. I would have to think trimming by hand is much > quicker than machine trims right? > Wendy Solomonson > Itchin' To Stitch > Arlington, MN > (507)964-2224 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sharon" <springer37@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:39 PM > Subject: [amayausers] Clipping Jump Stitches > > >> Out of curiosity, how many of the jump stitches are most of you clipping? > I >> am working on a bunch of aprons with 4 lengthy words and a design. The > font >> is about .25 in size. There is a total of 27 jump stitches to clip if I >> clip all of them. To date, I try to do this because they show (white >> lettering on red aprons)--do you all do the same or am I spending too >> much >> time? >> Sharon >> >> >> >> > >