HELP with stitching a slick covering on a jacket

[crossthread]

I had a design digitized and I kind of though it was dense but that is what they kept send me. They have stitched out find on the t shirts, sweatshirts, I have a wind shirt (nylon material with nylon lining) and the design looks ok but it has puckers here and there, A jacket I did had an opening in that sleeve so you could do the embroidery there. When I hoop it it seems fine but move it it seems to slide. I put 2 pieces of cutaway medium strength. It still puckers. I had to babysit the run and when I did, there was still puckering going on. I am using round plastic hoops, that is all I have for that size. When I took the jacket out, it stitched but was about 1/2 " off my mark and slanted?? Does anyone have a good method to prevent this from happening?
If you use special equipment and if so where can I buy it. My job has been delayed until I get this issue resolved. Thank you so much...PAM

[TinaK]

Pam~

Try wrapping your hoops or put a piece of cutaway on top of the material but cut out around the design area leaving an opening in it for you to sew. Sounds like your hooping is slipping and you are getting things tight enough!

Good Luck!

[crossthread]

Thank you Tina, I will try that. Very frustrating and costly to reorder and replace. I appreciate your tips. I will let you know. Pam

[signman]

You need to make your horizontal and vertical marks with with sewing chalk, extend them far enough to go past your hoop. On your hoop, using a tsquare, mark off the center top and bottom and side to side on your hoop with a marking pen. Now you have lines to match up to. This will prevent the off alignment you are having because you will be able to line up both the chalk marks and the hoop marks to center it all.
I use adhesive backing, cut into 1/2" strips and wrapped around both parts of the hoop- like a tennis racquet on the back hoop, and line the inside of the top hoop. Now you have something to 'grab' that slippery stuff.
Hoop with a good stiff backing, and create a fast 'outline' of your entire design as the first thing that sews. It has to be 'inside' the design, don't try to go right to the edge. Outline and then cross in the center-this 'ties' your jacket down in place before it sews anything else. Then make sure your design is sewing from the 'center' out to the edges-that allows material to get 'pushed' away from the center-helping prevent puckering. Watch out for high density and tight lettering-that also increases puckering. After wards, you can go over it with a hand steamer-that will help relax it. I have looked at satin type jackets done by competitors and in stores-and most of them have the puckering...not much you can do about it. Add a mesh backing and see if that helps-it works wonders on teeshirts.