January 29th, 2017, 03:35 PM
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Re: T2 What is the widest you will digitize a Satin stitch?
As a rule I stick to 5-6mm or less, then depending on the artwork/desire and opinion of the client I will change the stitch type around But Its never "I always use this or that" it usually is driven by the customer/the artwork/ and What I think will look best for them.
That said I have done MUCH larger satin stitches up to 12mm or so. But I usually require a heavy fabric that wont pucker easily. I then use dense tatami underlay (not as dense as a full fill but darn close) and either a double zigzag or a second tatami. This serves to anchor the fabric against puckering and will create a backup if the top satin buckles a little or moves while being worn you don't see fabric you just see more white stitching.
I have also done one other thing for fun but not in practice. This requires less underlay but does change the appearance of the top satin stitch ever so slightly. I have used it to create subtle vehicle textures in the past.
Basically you create your wide satin stitch column. then on top of that you turn off all underlay and being mindful of your stop/start points create another column satin stitch of the same color and angle that is half as wide. Significantly more subtle than splitting up the satin stitch because the angle is the same the stitches fall between the previous satin more and create a relatively smoother end result because the underneath satin stitches are still continuous. Saying that I now might try this same technique with the first layer splitting and than creating a top stitch that covers the split with a deep edgerun underlay that keeps the top stitch from falling into the split but has the ends of the top stitch smoothly between the satin... interesting. Putting that on my list of experiments.
I have also used this technique when running on fill stitches of machinery artwork where everything is pretty much the same color but there are many layers of depth in the structural details. the non-underlayed satin sinks into the fill creating a subtle depth, and then on top edgerun-underlayed satin stands above that layer creating the 3 layers of depth with the same color.
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