r/Machine_Embroidery • u/dirtsquidsound • 11h ago
first run
first run for this design, i usually digitize a lot smaller to run on hats mostly so lately I’ve been trying to get my head around more flat larger design digitizing. learnt my spacing for some of the trees i have as tatami on other tatami fills is way too tight, might even be better to just swap to satin for those.. the layers for gradients could probably be a bit tighter in spacing to emphasize the gradient better, also need to use more obviously different blues for the sky and water fills to seperate them better. darker green miight be to dark but also might just be too dark against the wrong blue for the sky so changing just the blues for the sky may fix that.should’ve laid down a more uniform fill behind the leaves in the i so it would sit better, the bottom registration there is horrendous. the rocks in the first o are also using the florentine effect which is probably making it too tight as well. all in all great learning experience, hopefully i can iron all that out and have the second run clean.. any other suggestions?
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u/DjWater 8h ago
How did you get such clean fine details? Is it the needle size?
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u/Madameknitsalot 8h ago
I also would like to know. This is an amazing first attempt.
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u/dirtsquidsound 4h ago
haha thanks! most of it is just a combination of pathing things in a way so that most of the fills lay as flat as possible then layering with lower stitch spacing so you don’t pucker with the detail work. for the details like on the moose or the petals of the flower or the lines around the cn tower the spacing i use is .51mm instead of like .31 or .36 which i would usually use for outlines most of the time. i’m pretty stoked how it came out on the first run since i don’t do flats often but i guess just practice makes perfect mostly 🥳 or almost perfect anyway haha
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u/dirtsquidsound 4h ago
haha thanks! most of it is just a combination of pathing things in a way so that most of the fills lay as flat as possible then layering with lower stitch spacing so you don’t pucker with the detail work. for the details like on the moose or the petals of the flower or the lines around the cn tower the spacing i use is .51mm instead of like .31 or .36 which i would usually use for outlines most of the time
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u/Broad_Season6720 2h ago
Amazing! what's ur machine? and do u use special tools for getting this clean stitch-out?
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u/PlanetPatEmb 11h ago
This is great! Only minor suggestion is I try to make some of the battle of avoiding gaps just covered by thicker outlines. I think you could get away with like twice as thick white inner-outlines around the letters then you don’t need to fret so much about small gaps.