Mary, My best educated guess in what may be happening in your particular case is that in Auto-actifeed, anytime the machine is stopped, thread break or otherwise, the material thickness will automatically jump to a thickness of 10 until the machine starts running at its normal speed. This is done so the machine, no matter what the material thickness is, has enough thread feed to be able to generate a tie-in properly. Try switching back to "standard" with a material thicknes of 3 when you stop the Amaya, and after the Amaya gets back to it's selected running speed, switch back to Auto-actifeed while it is running. This should tighten up the stitch for you on the start-up in your case. Rod Springer Rod & Sharon Springer Embroidery Cottage Melco Amaya Technician & Trainers Design Shop Pro+ & Digitizing Boise, ID 83713 208-938-3038 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shuffletown Embroidery" <shuffemb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 3:08 PM Subject: [amayausers] interesting effect on fill >I am testing a design that has a horizontal fill. I am stitching it on >nylon > and am not using any stabilizer. I have started and stopped it a couple of > times during the fill. Each time, the first 10 or so stitches after the > start-up did not lay flat. I have acti-feed on Does this sound like > something I can correct (other than not stopping the stitch-out during the > fill stitch). > Thanks, > > Mary > > > > Mary Buckle > > Shuffletown Embroidery > > Charlotte, NC > > 704-398-1273 > > > > > > =========================================================== > > The AmayaUsers Mailing List > Website: http://www.amayausers.com > Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list > > =========================================================== =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================