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lettering is a problem. Some of it stitches fine and some of it has bobbin coming up. Should I mess with tension? Add more stabilizer? I'm using a permanent medium weight stabilizer on the bottom and 2 layers of medium weight wash away on the top. The lettering is 5 mm high.
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Add a heavier stabilizer..I saved the sleeves from the t-shirts my son cut off for summer to do my test stitching on....I wouldn't mess with tensions!!
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Try a double layer of stabilizer before you do anything else. As part of the design stitches out right I would not mess with tension settings.
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Thank you for those who answered and gave flowers. I had already increased my top layer of stabilizer and didn't have a heavier bottom stabilizer handy so I reduced the tension number on my machine from 4.0 to 3.8 and that worked pretty good. Now I just need to make the font a little bigger so the satin stitch in some parts doesn't get so small that it is nothing. I'm doing this for my son who is a senator in his college student government. He wants shirts for the governing body. He is not as much as a perfectionist as me and thinks it looks fine now. I say my name is behind it so it has to be good.
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The first thing I would do is change the needle. Of course, that is the first thing I always do! Most of the time it helps! From there the other ideas given would be my next in line. Linda
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Thanks I'll try that too. Sometimes it is the simplest things that we forget about.
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The stabilizer could be the problem, T-shirt faabric always needs at least 2 layers on the bottom. Does your program tell you how much stabilizer to use. DigiPro does in the print preview for the template. Also, check the thread spool to see if the thread is getting caught. That's the first thing I look for because it seems to be the most common problem when bobbin thread comes to the surface.
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Thank you. See my comment to jrob. My program doesn't say anything about stabilizer. I'm working with a program that is a few years old. I found out today that it would cost about $400 to upgrade. That's not going to happen right now. Seriously, I'm on the computer collecting as many freebies as can.
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I would use a cut away on the bottom then float a tear away under that. Should solve your problem. (1 layer of WSS on top should be fine).
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Well, I went to buy more permanent stabilizer and the stores around here don't have what I was using anymore. I was using Sulky medium weight cut away permanent. I bought Floriani, no show mesh, sheer cutaway instead. I don't know how they will compare. I'm getting up the nerve to start a new sample but I need to wait for my son to give me his input on new lettering and of course the taxes are waiting to be worked on.......
I was also having trouble with small lettering on T-shirt, what do you mean by "float" a tear away under it? Is it not hooped?
No it is not hooped, you just lay the stabilizer on the bottom of the hoop, most times I do use a little of sticky spray so that it does not shift around.
I don't like to float unless I have to. I usually create a basting frame to go around my picture. I set the frame to stitch first to hold everything in place. This doesn't work on fabrics like velvet where removed basting stitches will show.
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You have some good advise, I agree with Jrob. One layer of WWS on top should be just fine.
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I'm not a digitizer and i never have problems with tension, so I can't give advise on those subjects. Try stitching a sample on some knit fabric with mesh under and solvy on top and if you have to use same thread in bobbin as the letters are on top. Good luck sweetie!!