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Difficulties sewing outlinestitches

This is probably a question that has been put to this group before, but I hope you can give me some help anyway. I'm having difficulties with the outline-stitches. that is my embroidery seems to "shrink" so the outlines stitches - usually the last part of the embroidery - will end up several mm away from the embroidered area, not all over but more often than not on the right side of the embroidery. This has gradually become worse - when I first started out, it was not as obvious as it is now. It will happen also with the patterns that I've bought from HV, not only the various freebees that I've downloaded.

Is it the frame - is it the stabilizer - what am I doing wrong ??

Elsebeth

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ES
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Elsebeth, I'll give you a couple ideas from my experience. First off, I don't gennerally stitch other's designs -- pretty much everything comes from scratch through my graphics business, so I have a lot more control over designs than most. Most of the time when this happens, it is because you haven't got the pull compensation properly adjusted for your fabric/stabilizer combination. As your pattern is stitched, the stitches pull the fabric in the direction of the stitches and then the outline doesn't line up in the x-y coordinate plane with where the design actually is at the end. You can fix this by playing with the compensation, or, you can use a heavier stabilizer, or, if you have design software, you can make adjustments to the outline stitches, stitch order, or to the area underlay stitching. Personally, I tend to go to a heavier stabilizer since that is usually the easiest, most cost and time effective solution. Also, if your fabric is pulling mutch, the design won't look right unless you stabilize it properly. When in doubt, over-stabilize. Hope this helps! Best luck!

-Doug

ES wrote:

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Doug

If you have Embird, you can make a basting stitch to go around your design first and that will sometimes prevent the fabric from shifting while it's sewing out.

Also, if you have software like PE-Design, you can 'draw' a basting stitch very closely around the design. This seems to work better for me because Embird will make a square basting stitch frame.

One last option that I've done with OK results is to stitch the outline first. This works well, but then you get a thicker outline.

Hope this helps :)

M>Elsebeth,

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Minnie

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