Help puckering

[Monograms N More]

I'm trying to stitch a logo that has 3800 stitches at 4ins wide and 1 1/2ins deep on a Red Kap blue and white striped oxford looking work shirt with a pocket on it. I'm using a piece of cutaway and it keeps puckering on me. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Jackie

[Juli in Kona]

Loosen the actifeed. And maybe sewing from the center out will help. And I would use iron on stabilizer or glue it down.

Juli in Kona

[Monograms N More]

How do I get it to sew from the center out on a file that someone has digitized for me?

Jackie

[peacheythreads]

Sometimes a quick way to deal with it is use a layer of medium wt. tearaway in addition to the cutaway. You would put it in layer order so that you can actually tear it away...then cut your cutaway.

[flebow]

Hi Jackie

I have a few few questions pls
Perhaps I can helpmre stabilizing?

What weight cutaway are you using?
If you have a style # it would help in identifying it - one layer?
Are there satin stitches in your design?
Are they light oxfords? and can you see the backing thru the shirt?

Thanx
Fred

[The Embroidery Authority - OLD]

Jackie,
Sewing from "Center Out" which means start sewing from the center, then sewing outwards, then coming back to the center and sewing outwards in the opposite direction. This feature is only available in Design Shop's lettering properties when using the lettering tool feature. Along with this, you have to make sure your design is an .OFM file format. Otherwise you won't have access to this feature.
If you are sewing something other than lettering, then the design would have to have been digitized this way to achieve the "center out" concept.
This is why it's important to have good working communications with your digitizer.
Your digitizer needs to know what type of garment will be sewn on, what kind of thread, what kind of backing, what kind of needle will be used, and whether or not you will be changing the designs size. Not to mention what kind of machine you are using.
If any of this type of information you are unsure of, then the digitizer should be able to recommend certain factors to use such as backing type and quantity and needle type depending on how he or she digitized the design.
If your digitizer simply sends you a design and it sews out well? Well, then, consider it a good day. But for those days where the embroidery can be more demanding/troublesome, you will fall back on the good communications established with your digitizer.
Ed