[amayausers] Re: Cut material with scissors....FIXED

  • From: "Body Cover" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:27:45 -0800

The one thing I found out was when you
change the color, make sure you don't just hit "OK"
make sure you hit "apply" first then "OK"
that is the process that sends the new info to the machine,
otherwise it doesn't go until the design resets (I believe)
until then you have to change the needle case manually if it is
already sewing that color but then the next time it will be correct.

If you don't know that is the needle button (top right) and the directional
arrows, you have to hold down the needle button while pushing the left
or right button.

Good Luck with the roller issue.

Ron Vinyard
Body Cover Design
1-888-435-0176
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: r.rinehartsr 
  To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 4:38 PM
  Subject: [amayausers] Re: Cut material with scissors....FIXED


  I think everyone must be watching sports tonight since there isn't much 
chatter out there tonight.  I wish I could say I've been able to watch 
something this afternoon, but, I've been baby sitting "Her Highness", Miss 
Amaya!!!    All last week I stitched up some animal designs that stitched up 
beautifully( Moose in a diamond...Snowy Own in a diamond...Lake Loon in a 
diamond, bear in a diamond and more)  without hardly any thread breaks, but 
today a different story and the funny part is they all are designs from 
Emblibrary, so the digitizing should be pretty much the same.  Today it started 
when the red pinch roller kept thowing the thread on needle #2 to the left and 
then naturally causing a birds nest under the needle plate.  It was stitching 
trees and this continued every 25 seconds until all 6 trees were done.  
Needless-to-say, each time I would have to cut the excess thread away from the 
bottom of the design  and clean out the bobbin case. EACH AND EVERY 
TIME...something like 25 times ( I think I lost count).  I even left for a 
while to cool down and cook supper.  I tried changing needles, MT, bobbin, and 
as a last resort, moved the #4 green color to a different location; I also 
changed it on the computer (from spool holder #2 to #7) but when I hit the 
start button, it continued to sew on spool #2;  it didn't recognized that I 
changed the position for color #4.   Is there something else you need to do 
besides go into color sequence location?  It did SHOW the change on the right 
hand side of the screen.  I even took out the yellow roller and greased the 
hub!!    I can't hardly believe it was the design, since part of the stitching 
was simple ordinary fill...nothing exotic.  I guess my two questions are...how 
do I get the machine to recognize that I've moved the thread spool to another 
spool holder and go to that needle when stitching resumes.   #2)  Anyone know 
why the pinch roller kept thowing the thread to (my) left of the roller?  I 
changed from a MT of 5 to a 4 (since it looked like too much thread was coming 
out of the top hole down to the red pinch roller) and nothing changed then when 
I went up to a 6 it really acted up, so I stayed at 5.  I was stitching on a 
fleece blanket with 2 oz cutaway backing and clear solvy on top.   THANKS FOR 
ALL YOUR HELP!!!    Enjoy your football!!       Debbie
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Itchin To Stitch 
    To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 3:47 PM
    Subject: [amayausers] Re: Cut material with scissors....FIXED


    I'm saving this trick.....thanks!
    Wendy Solomonson
    Itchin' To Stitch
    Arlington, MN
    (507)964-2224
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Russell Silva 
      To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:30 PM
      Subject: [amayausers] Re: Cut material with scissors....FIXED


      I talked to a friend of mine and he suggested using stitch witchery, I 
didn't want to use an iron on the microfiber so I melted some on a spoon, 
heated up the tip of a flathead screwdriver (so it wouldn't cool it off) and 
smeared it over the backside of the hole flattened it out with the spoon and 
you would never know the hole was there. I got lucky on this one.

      Russell
        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Body Cover 
        To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
        Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 1:13 PM
        Subject: [amayausers] Re: Cut material with scissors


        It might cost a little to play with it but if your willing and 
        are going to replace the garment anyway, I have a trick to try.
        Maybe you'll get lucky and save it.

        If you can close the hole up and it is hard to see on the front
        then this may work, if the best you can do still leaves a noticeable
        hole then this won't help you pass off a damaged garment.

        Go to any craft or sewing store or even a Wal-mart type has it
        and get some fusible backing. the kind that you can use with
        a household iron cut a piece big enough to seal the whole design
        and the hole. this way when noticed later on the inside it doesn't
        seem obvious that you were patching a hole, but maybe
        just sealing loose threads?

        Carefully pull the hole together and use some tape on the front if 
needed.
        Remember that this type of material is very heat sensitive but with 
heat applied
        from the back and low temp fusible backing it should work fine and will 
hold
        the hole together as if it never happened.

        If you have one you may be tempted to use a heat press, I would say 
"Don't"
        We have tried it on polar fleece and it almost always leaves a mark and 
tends to crush
        the fiber and leave a shine on it, So that is why the lower temp 
        home based material works very well.

        Try it, it may save it for you.

        Good Luck,
        Ron Vinyard
        Body Cover / Magic Stitches
        www.bodycoverdesign.com

        Grants Pass, Oregon
        1-888-435-0716


          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Russell Silva 
          To: Amayausers 
          Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:47 AM
          Subject: [amayausers] Cut material with scissors


          Hi All,

              When I was cutting the backing around a design on microfiber I 
nicked the material with the scissors leaving a small V shaped cut in a very 
noticeable area, is there anything I can do to fix it or should I replace it? I 
don't mind replacing it, it's just that it will take a week to get it and 
complete the order. 

          Thanks in advance
          Russell Silva
          R. S. Embroidery
          508-222-4433

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