Do you get frustrated when your embroidery design does not look good when you sew it out? It can be very frustrating when you sew out a new design and it is not working the way that you want it to? Where do you start in finding out what the issue is?
The first thought when you have an issue is to blame the digitizer. Sometimes this is valid, but there are times when the issues are caused by other factors such as improper hooping, wrong thread or needle, wrong backing, no topping and even running the machine too fast! The machines today are built to run faster than they really should run and when you purchase your machine that is a huge selling point. You can sew it at 1400 stitches per minutes all day long!
I have not seen too many embroidery machines that you can consistently sew out your garments that fast and have great quality embroidery. Your registration is not the same when you run it too fast. For higher quality work, slow it down a bit. Some machines will run very well at 850 or 900 stitches per minute, some will run a little faster, but the average is about 750-800 stitches per minute. Many older machines will need to be run at 600 to 650 stitches per minute. Here is a perfect example of what can happen if the machine is sewing too fast. This was brought in to me by one of my students that was not happy with the way that his design looked when he sewed it out. All we did was to slow down the machine.
Before you blame the digitizer, sew out your design and sew it more than once. As you sew out your design, have your design sheet in hand and place marks on it where each issue occurs. If the issues are with the design, you will have the same problem in the same spot consistently each time you run the design. If the issues are in other areas of the design as you run it, it is time to investigate other issues that could be happening.
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