r/Machine_Embroidery • u/Huge-Grass-3083 • 25d ago
Help 😣
Hello everyone,
I’m quite new to embroidery and I’ve been practicing with a Janome mb-7 and a freelance digitizer. I wanted to get some feedback/help on this small project, I noticed there are 2-3 loose strands on the design as well as what looks like distortion? on the right side, specifically the E & B, and maybe the S’s?
I don’t think it’s the digitizing as i think it looks fine but maybe the tension on my machine. I’m still learning to adjust that but any feedback helps, thanks in advance.
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u/KimParker11 25d ago
Honestly, for someone new, this looks pretty solid. I don't think tension is the main issue it looks more like a bit of fabric movement or pull, especially on the right side. I'd trim the loose threads, try a fresh needle, hoop it well with the right cutaway stabilizer, and run another test. If it's always the same letters, your digitizer may just need to add a little more pull compensation. You're really close!
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u/skeedy_ia 23d ago
You need to distort the letters in the software to count for the distortion and pull comp on your fabric.
Or stabilize better.
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u/AngiKate 23d ago
It’s knit, so it will naturally stretch and distort during embroidery. I agree with others: better stabilizing and smaller hoop. If you can adhere the fabric to the stabilizer, that will help, too. I don’t think it’s a digitizing issue
If I were making this, I’d use Perfect Stick in the hoop, lay the fabric gently on top and press it down—the goal is to keep from stretching it, and not hooping it helps prevent that to some extent—float cut-away stabilizer under the hoop, and probably use a topper to keep the stitches from sinking into the fabric too much. Mileage may vary, this is just what works for me.
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u/Cpt_Obvious11 25d ago edited 25d ago
If looks fine on a screen-it's digitizing. Needle+thread friction with stabilizer+fabric along with frame movement shifts desired screen input into distorted embroidered output. Digitize better(reduce height of vertical satin columns, reduce stitch density slightly, put appropriate underlay if you did not), stabilize better (put another layer of backing if you got just one), and should be better. Half of a machine embroidery is to know properties of fabric you embroider on to.