Oct 26Stitch tip
Sew a 70 mm test swatch before a five-hour run
Our Dragon Snake & Katana takes over five hours to sew. A 70 mm window cut from the real file tests tension, coverage and stabilizer in about 45 minutes.
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From the digitizing desk
Digitizing tips
lessons from real sew-outs
- Oct 25Stitch tip
Why small logos lose their details, and the size that fixes it
At 50 mm wide, the white gaps in a detailed logo can shrink to 0.3 mm, thinner than one thread. Here's how to check your logo before you pick a size.
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Designing for black fabric: let the fabric be the black
Stitching black thread onto a black garment adds stitches, stiffness and run time for nothing. Knock-out designs leave those areas as bare fabric instead.
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15 needles, 15 colours: plan the palette before you digitize
A design that needs more thread colours than your machine has needles means stopping to re-thread mid-run. Here's how we keep every design inside...
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DST has no trim command. Here's how your machine still cuts
Tajima DST files mark a trim with a short run of jump codes. If your machine's jump-to-trim setting doesn't match the file, you get loose threads...
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Fill density: why 0.25 mm between rows is the standard
Density settings come in two conventions that look very different for the same fabric coverage. Here's how to tell them apart, and why our first...
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