Michael84

Can anybody help me sort this out once and for all. Whenever I attempt to do a large design with dense stitching I get this ruffling/puckering of the embroidered area. I have tried different backing, different tentions, different densities of stitches, different speeds of the machine but all to no avail. It just has this wavey type effect whach throws off the allignment of other parts of the design. I have attached some pictures of the problem on my current project which is a large design on fleece. That is backed with 1 layer of iron on/tear away and 2 layers of medium weight cutaway, light tensions and 500 SPM The digitising software I use is Sierra Stitch Era. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I know it's late but better late than never. I've used Sierra software for about 8 years now and I still can't get rid of that stitch in the middle, it's just something that's there. What I do (and it's pure habbit now) is simply skip the first stitch of any design when it starts on the embroidery machine. Sorry I couln't be of any more help.