woven afgan blanket

[Stitch This Embroidery]

I have a woven afgan blanket that I need to put some names on. I stitched the first name and when stitching from one letter to the next it pulled apart the weaves. The top layer of the weaves are white and the underneath weaves are black so its very apparent it is pulling gaps in the weaves. I was doing Curlz font in gold and the name just really gets lost with the black showing through the pulled gaps. Maybe I need to do a wider block font?? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to keep this from pulling?

Thanks for any help

Chrissy Henderson

[signman]

Put a layer of solvy on top...the 'oldest' piece you have (makes it brittle and easy to pull off later without moisture)
That will keep the thread on 'top' of your weave.
Also see if you can duplicate the lettering with a very light (not dense) fill pattern in white to match your top weave, and this will tie that white weave down in place. It involves either manually tracing the letter or converting it to wire frame...can't remember exactly unless I'm sitting in front of design shop which I'm not. V 9 might have a trace feature-we just got it but haven't had time to see what's new.

[Stitch This Embroidery]

I put solvy the first time I tried it, as well as two sheets of tear away backing. I'm not real good with density and all that as I don't really understand it.

[Stitch This Embroidery]

Does anyone else have any words of wisdom on sewing on an afgan? The strings of the afgan keep separating. As embroidery is tightly stitched and afgan is loose.

Thanks for any help!!

Chrissy

[Meier Custom Emb.]

I use Press and tearaway on the back from Fred Lebow and desolvable toppy on top, and I did this on the woven blankets from Atlantic Afghan, and it worked GREAT.

[FME540]

Use the backing combinations that the others are suggesting and then set the machine to standard thread feed. Autofeed will be too tight for the loose weave of the afghan blanket. Start with very low bobbin tension, 6 inches drop when checking. Then increase the thread feed setting until you start to get false thread or bobbin breaks and back it down a few points. If the afghan is like some of mine I would start with the thread feed at 10 or 12 and adjust from there (probably up). Definitely use both backing and topping.

The Amaya machine is capable of sewing at very low tensions and that is what you want to prevent distorting the weave of the afghan.