Hi all
Happy New Year!
I'm having a play with leather. I generally don't do the normal stuff - polos, caps, etc. I do other personalised stuff. What I'm trying to do is embroider little personalised patches of leather to make greetings cards that can then be framed. So, a name and a little motif that's personal to the person receiving the card.
What I'm aiming for is to be able to do this on patches of leather that are about 4cm x 4cm. The leather varies in thickness depending on the colour from around 0.8mm to 1.5mm.
On a 10cm x 10cm piece, it goes pretty well. On DS Lite, I've done some tests. I'm using the musical symbols font and the 'l' (l for lima) which gives a treble clef and a muscial stave winding into the background. Then a name about 2cm high. I've set the column feed down from 40 to 30, the run/fill feed from 100 to 108 and the lower thread feed limit to 5. I didn't change the pull comp or density.
I ran a test out and had one thread break.
It's when I start to go small enough to get this on a 4cm x 4cm square that I hit problems.
I get loads of thread breaks where the thread just shreds. The other 2 problems are that on the satin stitches for the lettering the stitches aren't tight against the leather. Most are quite loopy. Then on the longer stitches on the musical stave, where it's sort of drawing lines, I'll get several stitches where it's like the bobbin gets dropped. So you get 10 penetrations of the needle but 1 big long stitch.
I've tried running the machine at 600spm and 1000spm. I think it actually runs better at 1000spm.
So, are there any tips for what I'm trying to do? I've searched on here, searched the net, and watched a few videos. If I could start with knowing some key settings for 6mm text, for example.
I read about the column feed, etc, on a post on here. The trouble is, I don't understand the mechanics of what I'm changing so I don't know if I've gone too far or need to go further. I think the suggestion was "as low as 20 for column feed and as high as 116 for the run/fill feed".
Any help would be gratefully received!
Cheers
Andy
Happy New Year!
I'm having a play with leather. I generally don't do the normal stuff - polos, caps, etc. I do other personalised stuff. What I'm trying to do is embroider little personalised patches of leather to make greetings cards that can then be framed. So, a name and a little motif that's personal to the person receiving the card.
What I'm aiming for is to be able to do this on patches of leather that are about 4cm x 4cm. The leather varies in thickness depending on the colour from around 0.8mm to 1.5mm.
On a 10cm x 10cm piece, it goes pretty well. On DS Lite, I've done some tests. I'm using the musical symbols font and the 'l' (l for lima) which gives a treble clef and a muscial stave winding into the background. Then a name about 2cm high. I've set the column feed down from 40 to 30, the run/fill feed from 100 to 108 and the lower thread feed limit to 5. I didn't change the pull comp or density.
I ran a test out and had one thread break.
It's when I start to go small enough to get this on a 4cm x 4cm square that I hit problems.
I get loads of thread breaks where the thread just shreds. The other 2 problems are that on the satin stitches for the lettering the stitches aren't tight against the leather. Most are quite loopy. Then on the longer stitches on the musical stave, where it's sort of drawing lines, I'll get several stitches where it's like the bobbin gets dropped. So you get 10 penetrations of the needle but 1 big long stitch.
I've tried running the machine at 600spm and 1000spm. I think it actually runs better at 1000spm.
So, are there any tips for what I'm trying to do? I've searched on here, searched the net, and watched a few videos. If I could start with knowing some key settings for 6mm text, for example.
I read about the column feed, etc, on a post on here. The trouble is, I don't understand the mechanics of what I'm changing so I don't know if I've gone too far or need to go further. I think the suggestion was "as low as 20 for column feed and as high as 116 for the run/fill feed".
Any help would be gratefully received!
Cheers
Andy
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