Can you tell me what went wrong here?
I am trying to make some fund raising items for our local senior center. I was looking for large designs to put on shopping bags, and found this bird design (I cannot remember where I got it unfortunately). Since it was broken up in to so many colors, I cannot tell where the problem was. I had the piece well stabilized, the hoop was locked in to place correctly, it wasn't bumped, shifted, moved or otherwise disturbed while it was stitching out, but somehow, the head didn't get put in the right place. Can someone shed some light on this for me? I hand stitched a fat neck on it so I can use the piece and turned it from a wren to a jay...sort of. I would prefer this not happen again if I can help it.
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145304I had that happen to an airplane design, it turns out it was getting caught on a jump stitch half way through the design and throwing of the placement. Great fix!
1501Can't help you with the reason it happened but well done with the repair!
15711You did a wonderful job in saving the design. Does your machine allow you to sequence back? Maybe you could have tried that.
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by justonlyme
23 Apr 2012
I did, and everything was off kilter. I'm still puzzled over how that happened.
85867Beautiful fix! He's just strutting for the female over the way. I can only guess, but my best guess is your stabilizer. I don't know what you used, but that fabric looks a little distorted and stretchy so I would have used a heavy cut away, and possibly 2 layers.
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by justonlyme
23 Apr 2012
Thank you. The fabric was a heavy upholstery weight and was double stabilized. No stretch in the fabric at all.
158717Wow, Deanna, You did an incredible job with the save! It looks great! I don't know what caused this, but it's happened to me and It just really upsets me because I don't know what causes this to happen!
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by justonlyme
23 Apr 2012
:) Thank you. And when you don't know what happened, you don't know how to prevent it next time!! That was what I was hoping to learn. Maybe it will just be trial and error.
59631Can't help you with what went wrong, but my you sure did a great job fixing him up. Shirley
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52686Amazing work on fixing the gap. It must have eaten too many worms.
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89895That happened to me before and I think the reason was because i re sized the pattern and had some problems with my sewing machine, which I fixed and proceeded with the stitch out and the first part of the design was stitched out in one size and the part that was stitched out after the repair was another size, now when I have a problem I try to remember whether I have re sized the pattern or not. You might say it was a learning process. I have a singer so it is very temperamental and I have to baby it. Hugs Dean I love the way you recovered from the catastrophe. Hugs Dean
5335Sorry it messed up, but boy! Did you do a great job saving it!! His neck's not fat...it's cold & he has his feathers all fluffed up!!
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20276You did an awesome fix job! I wouldn't have realized if you hadn't said anything.
38558You have done a lovely repair job. Congratulations. I hope the next one will stitch out fine.***
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21543This is most peculiar as the head at the back seems to be fine, eye is in the right place but certainly something has happened to the front of the poor bird. You have done the most amazing job of fixing. Well done. I am not a lot of help with your problem. LOL. Sarah.
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by justonlyme
22 Apr 2012
I know, right? That is why I had trouble figuring out what could have gone wrong. I'm still puzzled.
255054I have it listed as one of softy's designs;don't know what site that is from..
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by justonlyme
22 Apr 2012
Thank you!! Now I know where it came from. If it is Softy's design, then it is in the Design by Sick forums.
18403I love your save. You can see where the fabric was distorted, I think the suggestions from bevgrift will help in the future. From my experience I always use a cut-a-way stabilizer for dense designs.
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by justonlyme
22 Apr 2012
Thank you. I'm going to have to get some cut away stabilizer!! I'm still learning. This was a "big lesson"!!
16707It appears that your fabric has shifted with the dense stitching.
The large hoops do not hold the fabric firmly, is what I experience.
See my tip for fabric starching.
Remember too that you can lower you top tension (even after you have begun stitching )
Hugs Bev
answers.cuteembroidery.com
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by justonlyme
22 Apr 2012
That has to be it. I cannot think of any other reason that it would be off b this much. I did think of starching, but this is a super shiny heavyweight fabric. I wasn't sure what it would do. I did have it double stabilized with tear away, which is all I had handy. Thank you. I'm going to add cut away stabilizer to my shopping list!!
by justonlyme
22 Apr 2012
which is all I had handy. Thank you. I'm going to add cut away stabilizer to my shopping list!!
7875Is it here? Refer to the link below.
Hugs, Lidia
www.micnali.com
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by justonlyme
22 Apr 2012
That must be where I got it!! I don't see it in the index though. Maybe it is an older design.
78119Nice save.I have some wrens in my bird folder which maybe the same & they came from Macnali designs.Sorry I don't have the link but you can google them
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25212Did you do a test first? It may just be a glitch in the design. Other than that I don't have a clue as to what could have happened.
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by justonlyme
22 Apr 2012
No, this was a HUGE design. This is the first time I stitched this one out.
20661I hand stitched some filler to give birdy a fat neck. It has a crest now, which I'm not going to mess with. But this wren isn't feeling quite right.
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by christracey
22 Apr 2012
You did a great job in fixing this design so at least it won't be wasted. Sorry I can't help out otherwise.
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