On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:27:56 -0700, Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote:
>bigmama wrote:
>
>> The letters are moved and there are spaces blanks without stitch.
>
>Thanks for the info .. now I see the gap at the bottom of the "m". Not
>sure what you mean by "the letters are moved", because they were done
>the same as any other design element, not as 'letters'.
>
"Letters are moved".... yeah... they are. The whole design moved...
The letters stayed where they were Herb... (cos you and I know they
can't "move" on the file) it was so freakin' huge by the time the
letters were sewn (last colour) it had moved so much in the hoop that
the letters "appeared" to have moved.
The letters are exactly where they should be. The fabric moved.
Herb... a hint... underlay stitches. I know you aren't a fan, but the
time has come to figure out on that click and go program where the
button is that does it... and do it perpendicular to the direction of
the embroidery stitches going on top of it.
But, having said that, underlay stitches alone would not have helped,
more later.
On a design that BIG, and you mentioned this yourself, 66,000+
stitches is just heading for disaster - on a number of levels.
Without underlay stitching to give it some sort of initial
stabilisation, it didn't have a hope of staying aligned.
Again, in saying that... I'm thinking it wasn't hooped correctly...
For a start, see how all the bigger patches of stitches are ALL
horizontal.
Parallel to the weft of the fabric. You are digitising in the same
direction as the weave ... this always produces tears.
Vertical and horizontal stitching is a no no (at beginner levels)...
especially for the faint of heart... /grin
Even a 5 degree shift will put the stitches in a stronger position.
Underlay first will keep them there...
All this does is bunch the weave of the fabric together as more and
more stitches are laid down. For smaller projects this may not occur,
but the stitches are in danger of just disappearing into the weave or
pile of the fabric.
That is why underlay stitching is so important on bigger projects.
Think of a corset and the lacing up. The more lacing, the tighter the
waist gets. Pretty as that is in RL, it's not ideal in machine
embroidery.
That is effectively what happened and how the letters "moved". By the
time they were sewn, the design was narrower on the fabric.
The letters ARE actually sewing where they should, the fabric is just
not in the same place it was almost 60,000 stitches ago!!
For something this big, I would have to have used a layer of cutaway
(probably two) to belay any movement. And not floated underneath, I
would have hooped it to death. This design was never gonna stay
aligned without something immovable underneath. And I mean immovable.
Hard to do with a design this size. I'm not a fan of anything wider
than 150mm... I've seen a lot of crappy attempts at the big hoop stuff
by women with weak wrists (hooping problems).
Adjusting stitch compensation (where colours overlay each other just a
bit more to compensate for movement) would be needed in this.
The design looks neat and aligned on the computer screen. The viewer
isn't fabric. Fabric moves when stitched to death, like this is.
And! Just to throw another variable in ... machine tension. They are
all different. It is something a digitiser cannot even guess at.
This will also cause movement problems. It is not something you should
have to worry about. One should be aware of one's individual machine
quirks.
Oh... as an aside. Some of the colours are just in the wrong order
completely.
Colour five just gets eaten up by colour ten. I zoomed in on it
thinking it was just misaligned stitches, to discover it is supposed
to be highlighting. It didn't seem necessary to the design as a whole
anyway, but most of it gets covered by the blue at a later stage,
making it superfluous.
The program is picking up too many unnecessary colours and not knowing
what to do with them.
It was a valiant attempt. I hope I haven't sounded "picky".
You wanted to know, so here ya go... /grin
Pixie :-))
One last word of advice... you don't know the sewing abilities of the
person requesting a digitising project...
You doan know the one million ways they can screw up anything you
offer, and without even trying! /grin.
No... this design was destined to die a slow and natural death upon
sewing it out.
But I have also seen what can happen to a perfectly good offering...
It was sad to watch... /grin
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>> "Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> ha scritto nel messaggio
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>>>bigmama wrote:
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>>>>Thank you Herb but I tried to sew and the result isn't good.
>>>
>>>So I can do better next time, I'd like to know what kind of thing(s) were
>>>wrong with it.
>>>
>>> - Herb
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thank you the same.
>>>>"Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> ha scritto nel messaggio
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>>>>>bigmama wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>>I hope that it is now clear
>>>>>
>>>>>It was perfectly clear in your original request.
>>>>>
>>>>>Did you receive the digitized design that I posted two and a half hours
>>>>>ago?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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