January 18th, 2017, 11:37 PM
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Round Patch Problems
Hello everyone,
I have only been embroidering for about 6 months now and enjoing it.
My daughter asked me to make he a round patch and I thought Oh that should be easy.... Every time I have tried to stitch it it turns out oval shaped.
I have tried different fabrics and tweaking the the stitching on the patch. My last two attempts I tried heave duck canvas and when that did not work I tried 2 layers of the canvas with the grain of the fabric turned 90 degrees from each other hoping to keep the shape from stretching. I have also tried different stitch angles and thread densities to no avail.
The patch is 3 inches in diameter and between 15 and 17 thousand stitches depending on my tweaking of the design. I am using a Janome Memory Craft 12000 and have had no problems up until now. At this point I am not sure is it a design error, hooping error or more that likely user error.
Any help, tips, advice would be greatly appreciated.
Bill
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