[amayausers] Re: Hoop - Hooping Question
- From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:26:06 -0400
Terri....I'm sewing a huge design now for a church....10" x 10",
77600 stitches and it is almost a multiple maltese cross with circles
in the center. It is going on terry cloth robe, so I'm testing it on
a towel.
I have had problems like you mention with other fleece, blankets,
sweats, and towels where it 'puckers' in the middle or acts loose.
Is your design sewing from the outside to the inside? This means it
is sewing down the material to the backing, but if it is then sewing
towards the inside, the material is bunching up towards the center,
making it loose. As the thread sews (tightens) the material, the
excess has to go somewhere.
So I did a quick outline of the major part of the design, around the
middle line of the wings, circles, etc. of the design from top to
bottom, not from outside to inside or other way around, but from top
to bottom, then ending up back at the inside for the first fill-about
a 1 1/2" circle design. Now the entire area is tied to the backing,
and with this ghost 'outline', all the material is segmented into
smaller areas. Now you can watch as it sews the design out, each
little 'area' puckers towards the center of its only little spot-and
when I do the last lettering down the middle of each section, that
will flatten out the pucker. Sounds complicated-took me hours to
digitize and hopefully only have to test it once-this is a ONE sewout
job! 19 needle changes, 12 colors I think....all for one job.
So if we can make it through the test, getting a lot of thread breaks
in some thin wavy 'rays' right now...then we hoop up the robe and run
it. Not going to spend another hour changing little thread positions
just to save 10 minutes on the final sewout.
But maybe this will help you figure out your problem.
If the hooping is tight to begin with, then your looseness is caused
by the sewing causing excess material to move.
Good luck!
Roland
On Sep 11, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Lee or Terri Hoover wrote:
> In trying to solve too many fraying thread breaks, I've noticed
> that after
> sewing some amount of stitches (ballpark 1000), the material in the
> hoop is
> no longer taut. When initially hooped the material was taut, in the
> "middle" of sewing am noticing the material is no longer taut. The
> outer
> ring has NOT loosened up, even tried a screwdriver to tighten the
> outer
> ring. The material being embroidered is knit, with a fusible poly
> mesh
> backing - so it should be stable. Any thoughts how to stop this.
>
>
> Terri
>
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