How did they do that?

[Guest]

I was shopping this weekend and purchased a rather expensive shirt from the
Lucky store. It was camo long sleeve with an appliqued 57 and embroidered
florals around and on the applique. To my surprise, there was no backing on
the inside. Nothing. Nodda. Zip. Would someone know how the heck that was
done since everyone strong suggests stabilizing knits in every instance? The
embroidery is perfect and I would love to know how it was done.

[The Embroidery Authority - OLD]

Next time, if you can, take a picture with high resolution for show. As they say, a picture's worth a thousand words.

Ed

[GF]

I just took photos. Tell me where to email or how to attach them to this message board.

[levelbest]

You need to upload them to a photo hosting service such as flickr or webshots and then post the link to them here.

[signman]

Look clese at your pictures and you can see the white 'fuzz' under the backside...that's the backing.
Looks like a very soft tear away.
we've gotten the same effect on some shirts by careful removal, and on loose weave stuff, you pull the fabric to stretch it a lot, let go, and your backing will be neatly all torn off and easy to brush away.

Roland

[GF]

Even so . . . the backing is not a cutaway which is always recommended for knits and this looks great. Way nicer than a fused cutaway, don't you think? Why is cutaway always recommended against a tearaway on a knit? What should an embroiderer consider when selecting this tearaway on knit stabilizing method?

[signman]

my wife listened during that part of class...I was busy doing something else. She says the cutaway is 'softer' against the skin so she uses it on polos and stuff...I'm not that fussy-I figure it's easier to just pull off tearaway and not worry about it at all.
Also, I've cut a few shirts trying to cut real close!

[Paul]

Signman
If your cutting real close hold the backing up and let the garment hang this gives you a good visual to cut the backing but not the garment. Just a little trick I got from Sharon.

Paul

[signman]

My problems stemmed from cataracts I didn't know I had-couldn't see half of what I had to. Had lens replacement surgery last year on both eyes...now I can see 20/15 for long range up to about 4 feet in front of my nose-closer than that and I can't focus...need reading glasses but fine work is still not right.
So I let her do all the trimming. With my oversize hands and those darn miniature little scissors I could hardly see where the tips were going anyways! LOL...
Even XL gloves don't fit me...very hard to find gloves that do.

[oldkush]

GF

The key to this design working on a knit using a tear-away is in the quality of the digitizing. The stitch selection, technique and densities are all very good .... perfect for a coarser knit material.

Don't know where the shirt was embroidered but whoever did the design work, definitley knew what they were doing.

Hard to tell from the photos but it looks like the embroidery may be done with thread a little heavier than 40wt ??

Bob