Unstructured Caps

[debndukes]

I have a design with a large 1.5" filled circle and whenever I run it, it comes out oblong. I have tried massive underlay and pull comp to no avail. I have used tear away and cutaway backing to no avail. I Have tried changing stitch direction with little improvement. Any ideas???

[Judy]

Is it digitized to stitch from the center to left, and then center to right?

[debndukes]

No, it starts at the center bottom and finishes center top.

[Judy]

For hats, set it up to stitch center out one direction, and center out the other direction. And use the least amount of density you can...4.5 or higher.

HTH,
Judy

[debndukes]

I'll give it a try......

[Rod or Sharon]

Also watch your stitch length...the longer the stitch the more it will pull....the higher the machine speed, the more it will pull....etc...

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[HERB]

Step one is to digitize a walk stitch with re-trace at 18-24 points about 10 points inside the image. Set the retrace offset to around 10 points. This will tie your backing to the cap. I would use 3 oz as a minumum on the backing. Neither your underlay nor top stitch direction should be 0/180 degrees. Manually creating your underlay to sew bottom to top/center out will give better results than relying on default underlay settings. You will have 2 underlay pieces when you have it done, one left and one right. As others have stated, make sure the top stitch sews bottom to top.

This assumes the design is not too tall for the cap and the cap is hooped properly.