Help with hat embroidery

[tancehughes]

This is an oval on a structured cap. Anyone know why our underlay stitch comes out of alignment? The hat kind of pops up and down while we are running them but we have them hooped correctly I believe.


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[inkman996]

Because a hat is curved and has a tendicy to not be in the same spot when it first runs the overlay and the machine comes back to stitch on top. Hat logos tend to be broken up into smaller groups to avoid this. If an oval is giving you hell then stitch only one half of it at a time including the underlay.

Starting from the bottom up and center out can help.

[Denis Kolar]

Like Mike said, start from center out, hoop the hat tight, use two layers of a hat backing.

Have a good digitizer!!!

[mooseman]

edit out the underlay in the thin areas.  Look at the top embroidery it looks OK sitting there next to the underlay......edit it out.
mooseman

[tancehughes]

 Moose I like your idea, may try that. Will get it set up for center out also


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[Doug B]

  For the most part I always digitize without an underlay. To compensate, I slightly increase the
satin or fill density and try to avoid any running stitches unless it is an integral part of the design.

[tancehughes]

We have taken the underlay stitch out and will be running a test soon to see how it works!

[GaryG]

How about "needle plates" for caps?
Do you use them, or what brand of machine? Some brands may not use them?
Find them helpful and for what kind of designs / caps?
Tajima here, didn't come with them, used 2008 bought in 2010.
Seems like the would help with registration.
Thx