loose tie ins

[Miss Lucy's]

I am doing a design which is all lettering and i am using a truetype font. I am test sewing it on some cutaway and I am having trouble with loose tie ins. The stitches are not tight at all at the start, after a trim, or after a thread break. The bobbin passes the drop test for tension. I have set the actifeed to 2. Machine is set at 900 spm.

Also I would most of the letters are being trimmed after each letter except for a few. The size of the lettering is small so I don't want to have to cut any jump stitches. Is there a way to insert trims without converting everything to wire frame?

Thanks for your help. Can you tell I have very little experience? lol

Bruce

[signman]

For small lettering, make sure 'short stitches' is turned OFF, and there is NO underlay. IF you have 'auto' feed, turn it ON, not off-let it do it's job. Pressor foot down and back up 1 click unless it's heavy material, then you want it down enough to just kiss the material.
Trim after each small letter? Waste of time-and no one will notice. BUT if you must...where you 'type' in your wording, look at the list of 'tools' to the right of that window-there is a pair of scissors. Just click your pointer between each pair of letters, and then click the scissors. Do this between each set of letters and words-it looks like you are adding a 'space' but you aren't-you are adding the 'cut' command. And also about 20 seconds each for extra time.
Now run your test and make sure you have good backing, at least a mesh along with tearaway (stiff) to hold everything still for those small letters and if needed, solvy on top. But that will be a job to pick off afterwards...depends on how 'clean' you want that lettering to look. Remember-NOT ALL FONTS CAN BE SEWN BELOW 1/4 INCH TALL!!!

[Miss Lucy's]

Thanks for the response. The reason for the trims was because of the design having the lettering spread-out 3/8 of an inch between letters.

I made the adjustments you suggested and things are going better but I am having a bunch of false bobbin breaks and the tie-in is still loose not so much on the small lettering but on the larger 3/4 inch high letters.

What about a different tie in stitch? Would that make a difference?

Thanks again, I will get working on it.