monogram on duvet

[Five Point Emb]

A customer sent me a queen size duvet and 2 shams. I searched the archives and found some help. I need to know what size is appropriate for the duvet - border, lettering, image, all total. My largest hoop is about 16 x 8. I don't want a tiny image in the middle of a huge spread. One site I found suggested letters 10-12". There's hardly room for any border. I hope someone has done something like this and can offer some help. Thanks!
Darlene Duseberg
Five Point Embroidery
Perrysburg, OH

[Marcelle]

I just received a scanned picture from 'Traditional Home' magazine from a lady showing just what you describe. It has 3 initials and a 4 section frame making a triangle. I have also seen these pictured on shower curtains. I tried just a single initial over the weekend with a less elaborate frame and will be trying more versions. I thought it looked like the one in the picture would require our largest wood frame in order to get the effect.

If you will email me at [email protected] I will send you the scanned picture. I think it will give you some help.

[Five Point Emb]

Yes, thank you. I will write to you for that picture. Today I started a practice sew-out, as so many members have stressed to do - but immediately saw that the satin stitches were way too large. Three jumps stitches and I stopped. I made everything into fill stitches, but the stitch count now is over 64,000. Can someone explain how to divide the one wide satin stitch into 2-3 columns? I think I read about split satin? I am not a digitizer but I believe I should be able to do this with my machine. THanks ahead.
Darlene
Five Point Embroidery

[phunter]

Hi guys
Just reading this old post. I just had a customer ask me about doing a couple of pillow shams with a large monogram.
Anyone here done the “split column stitch” mentioned in the above thread??

[Mama Kass]

It's been eons since I've tried this and my old DS doesn't have auto split stitch, but here are a couple of old threads that explain it:
10/26/2007 Satin Stitches
10/29/2008 Melco's Fanci Monogram

If you don't have this feature there is a way to do it, but since I did it so long ago and you may have the auto split feature, I'll forgo trying to explain. The one problem I experienced was because I was using a metallic thread. It occasionally didn't catch the bobbin thread so the stitch would go all the way across the column creating a very wide stitch.