I don't know why. I even had it once with an offical embroidery card of my brother machine.
But I can give you the tip: to hide this you can use a waterresistend fineliner and hide the embroidery beneith the design.I use : Identipen for this. Hugs, Ge

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but the black lines are ok on the rest of the design just not on the left hand side & the slippers are off too???

I have had this happen also. I am anxious to see if the digitizers here can explain in layman terms for us and if it is correctable. I even tried ungrouping the design in my software and moving it over with no luck. Kay

I often wonder this too. Interesting to see the answer.

I had this happen on my first sweatshirt (many years ago) only to discover that the shirt slipped and was preventing the machine from moving freely on one side. It is probably not the case here, but some new to the hobby may benefit from my experience.

All of mariejooste's answers below apply. Also, understablizing! I did a design on a piece of canvass for a tote bag and it was awful! I tried again with double stabilizer and it was fine. I have also found some designs just aren't up to snuff when they are digitized, so I will look at them really carefully in my software and move the lines if it is important to me.

I agree with Linda - it is most likely a stabilizing problem unless you hit your embroidery arm while it was running. Try stitching it again on similar fabric and double your cut-away stabilizer. That should also take care of the puckers showing from the edges of the robe.;)

I have had this , and i think it is that I have not hooped the fabric to the right tension or the stabalizer,,
hugs Pam,

Sometimes when a design is digitized, "pull compensation" is not correctly adjusted for. When the design is being stitched out, the fabric tends to be pulled in the direction of the stitching. So when the outline is stitched, the machine doesn't know that the fabric has been pulled to the side and the outline is stitched a little ways off of the design. My experience has been that this may happen just in places in the design, it can be too far off, or it can be on top of the design.

Sometimes certain parts of the design my have a much higher density than other parts of the design. This may take up a little extra fabric in that area resulting in the outline being a little bit off.

As has been suggested, extra stabilizer can remedy a lot these kind of problems; however, you can end up with a design that feels like cardboard. Quite often you will see the advice to do a test stitchout on similar fabric before stitching on the "good" fabric to see what combination of stabilizers work best. But if a design is poorly digitized, you may not get the wonderful results that you are hoping for.

There are two remedies that work for me if I've stitched on the final product and there is an outline problem. If it is off only a tiny bit, I use a fine line permanent marker (black if the outline is black) and color in the tiny bit of fabric showing. If the area is more than a pencil line width off, I fill the area in with thread using free motion stitching and the embroidery thread that was used in that part of the design.

If the outline is on top of the design, I just remove it and leave the outline off.

from personal experience I can tell you that when I embroidered sweatshirts for a local football team, when embroidered on a flat piece of fabric the embroidery was BEAUTIFUL. when I went to sew on the actual sweatshirt, because the sweatshirt hung off the embroidery bed (of my Viking Designer 1 which I absolutely love) it pulled the hoop just enough for the outline to be off. I tried to double and even triple stabilize the sweatshirt underneath both in and out of the hoop and could not resolve the problem. when speaking with my sales rep he confirmed what I just said about the weight of the sweatshirt. I tried to "rig" a large plexiglass table around the bed of the machine which did not interfere with the assembly arm and the embroidery turned out better. Hope this helps.

Lois W.

Try not to let your garment hang freely over your sewing table. Let it rest onto something to support the garment, so that your hoop does not get distorted. Hope it makes sence. Very cute design.****

Well I have a link here of another cutie who did this design & was not happy with it either!!!yeh well not that I am happy that she didn't like it either but that means it was a problem with the design & not me!Whew! That certainly makes me feel better! Thanks for shaing everyone, Hugs Loralye

I wonder if you fused one or 2 layers of Fusible No Show Mesh cut away stabilizer to the shirt if that would help the outline stitch out better.
The fusible No Show stabilizer would prevent the knit fabric from stretching or shifting will you stitch.

One thing to remember is this design has been around for a lot of years and was probably digitized with an older version of software so that maybe why these desigs are not as great as some of the newer designs that are out now.

EastWitch2

I had this happen on a huge parrot, the whole bird stitched out perfect then the outline was way off, it ruined the whole thing. Well I posted the problem here (aa couple of years ago) and got many responses. There were a few that said it was the digitizer, but the one that was actually the savior was the cutie that told me to use 2 sheets of tearaway on the back instead of 1. I did that and it was perfect. Maybe that would help. double up on the back and use a wss on top to keep your t-shirt from slipping. You might also use an iron-on stablizer on the back. Good luck....

When stitching on tshirts or sweatshirts or any knit type fabric for that matter, the fabric has a lot of stretch in it. Just holding the fabric still is a big factor. Using an iron-on stabilizer will keep the fabric from stretching. Because there seems to be a lot of puckering in this stitchout, adding a tearaway should help that problem too. Also, the threads tend to sink into sweatshirt fabric and don't give you that nice crisp look. Using a washaway stabilizer on top will help prevent the threads from sinking into the fabric.