Small Lettering

[Tammy]

I am trying to sew a fairly long and small name on a hospital scrub and I am having trouble getting it to sew out clean. I am using elegans dak and I have design shop version 7 and Amaya OS. Any suggestions would be great! I have tried so many different ways and have come up with nothing...or if there is a sript font that would work better, I can try that as well..HELP!
Thanks

[Greenwing]

When you say "fairly small" exactly what size?

If you are at 1/4th inch the
code sheet says
you should use density "5.0 pts"
underlay should be "center walk"
and column width of 120%

What backing are you using?
On some scrubs I found an iron-on tearaway worked best.

[Rod or Sharon]

As Jerome said...how small is small and how long is long?

What density are you using?

What backing?

I have found that using a zig zag underlay at 15pt density and a 70% border width works much better than a center walk in most cases. A zig zag underlay is nothing more than a satin stitch with a more open density and it will follow the cures and angles better than a straight stitch and it will not peek out anywhere...try it, you will like it. I will use it down to about .2 on some fonts. But as Roland has mentioned so many times and rightfully so, density should be upped to between 5 and 6 or a tad higher depending on the garment involved.

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[Tammy]

I am "trying" to use elegans dak at .65% for height and 43% for letter width. I am using heavy cut away backing. 5 pt. density and 180 column width with center walk underlay.

[Tammy]

Thanks for all of your help..I am sewing out a couple of samples down with your suggestions!! Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

[Rod or Sharon]

.65% for height? I assume that is .65 inches high?

.65 would not really be considered to be "small lettering".....small is relative, but .3 and below gets to be small, smaller, smallest, etc......ie. in my book taht is.....

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[Tammy]

I just can't seem to get it to sew clean..

[Rod or Sharon]

I looked at .65 height and 43% width with a long name and I believe it is just too much distortion, too scrunched up....I did not sew it out.

As for the font in it's original non-modified state, I would first try putting in 130% pull comp plus 4 points pull comp on the X, Y side and 20 points of minimum pull comp. On the lettering page I would change the stitch length to 18pts. For lock stitch, try style 5 for both. For underlay, a zig zag at 15 pt density and 70% border width. Density was set at 4.8. All this and then would tweak it from there.

But to take all of this and then scrunch it to 43% of its width, I doubt if it will ever sew as clean as you want it to....I did not sew this out, just looked at the screen from experience.

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[Tammy]

Thank you again..I will try the advice that you gave [img]smile.gif[/img] Is there another font that is similiar that you would use instead? The customer chose this font so I was trying my hardest to sew it out for her in that font. I might just have to change fonts to have a clean sew out..

[Chris & Cindy]

I just did a test sew with the font you are using as well as the settings you are using and it is just to thin. You are going to have to make the letters much fatter. You can also try 60 wt. thread and a 65/9 needle and see if it works better.

[Chris & Cindy]

CHALLENGE:

I would like to see if my digitizing skills have gotten to a professional level or I'm just fooling myself. So what I would like is for anyone to send me a .ofm file that sews badly. Please nothing larger than 25K stitches. Send your ofm file to [email protected]. If I am right and am able to clean it up you get it back for free. If I am just fooling myself then we both tried.

When you send it please tell me what you are sewing it on and what the problem is with the sew?

Thanks,