Caps

shellyky · February 7th, 2011, 05:34 PM

when you digitize the design, just start in the center for example if you're sewing the word "APPLES" on a hat, you'd start with the LES and then the PPA. As far as widening the colums of the satins, usually you can just change the width if its a "singleline" stitch. A satin, usually you have to do that manually. It all just depends on what program you're using...i usually find it easiest to do after ive saved it as a DST file, i can jsut right click->properties->then change the column width % to 1-2-3 percent wider.

cnasherman · February 7th, 2011, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by shellyky

when you digitize the design, just start in the center for example if you're sewing the word "APPLES" on a hat, you'd start with the LES and then the PPA. As far as widening the colums of the satins, usually you can just change the width if its a "singleline" stitch. A satin, usually you have to do that manually. It all just depends on what program you're using...i usually find it easiest to do after ive saved it as a DST file, i can jsut right click->properties->then change the column width % to 1-2-3 percent wider.

So, none if this applies if I outsource my digitizing, correct?

shellyky · February 8th, 2011, 10:45 AM

correct--if someone is digitizing your files for you, they should know what they're doing and set all of that up accordingly assuming you tell them that it's for a hat, and you tell them your max sew size on a hat...thats usually all they'd need to know.

SunEmbroidery · February 12th, 2011, 09:39 PM

Steaming caps before embroidering can help get a better fit on your frame.

lynn sherman · February 19th, 2011, 12:47 PM

Thank you for all your suggestions on caps. After trial and error on about 2 dozen of caps, I started putting them on the driver without clamping them and the results were so much improved. Thought it was worth passing it along to maybe help others.