Roland,
I did some wedding hankies a while back, very very thin. I used 4 layers of
water soluble backing to get some thickness and was able to sew them at a 3.
I have never been able to sew anything at a 1 or 2 MT. It may be that you
are running the top thread too tight and this is pulling the fabric hence
the registration issue. At times I have achieved good results by getting
just a tiny bit of bobbin to show on the back, not the 2/3 top 1/3 bobbin
recommended.
Herb
Royal Embroidery
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:33 AM
Subject: [amayausers] Re: problem areas in sewing
Rod-I am getting better and better at using DesignPro, but I always sewout
first to look for areas that might be 'loopy', or fills and borders that
don't line up-etc. I also learned real fast that a small designt that sews
perfect 'flat' won't work on a hat-fill areas have to be enlarged (or the
borders shrunk in) to make sure the border overlaps the fill area.
Even the neckerchiefs I'm trying to do are driving nuts-I've almost done as
many 'test' sewouts as the final count I need to do! The material is so thin
that fills are pulling in-material thickness set to ZERO or ONE and the
borders still don't overlap. In the designpro-the borders are almost 100%
overlapping-yet the sewout doesn't work.
We learned quickly that the Dakato designs included with the program are
almost always defective or poorly digitized for the Amaya-needles jumping
all over the place, lousy fills, multiple needle changes not needed...so I
always go right into them and start looking at the 'needle flow' and figure
out where to change it for speed and fewer stitches. One of their 'yin yang'
designs had 1/2 of the 'fill' reversed! So it sewed upside down....and we
didn't know it until it was sewing on the jacket. But fixing the design and
resewing it THREE TIMES covered it up. The 'stitch eraser' is just a
joke-any tight stitches and it won't cut it at all....we tried!
but the more I work on cleaning up designs with designpro the better I'm
getting...
Roland
