Tips from Eagle Digitizing for Avoiding Unequal Letterings of Satin Stitch

You know, when we see a satin stitch design with a lot of letters, we get easily fascinated by the embroidered image. But when we look closer at such designs, we can notice that the satin stitches are not all equal. And this issue is more visible when you want to digitize an embroidery design for use in your software or embroidery machine. In this article, I’ll show you how to avoid unequal letterings of satin stitches after embroidered.

I didn't realize this when I was a learner of computerized embroidery digitization. Mostly, I wonder why this is happening. I cross-checked the design on the computer. But it's okay there. I've taken a scale and checked the design, but I don't see any equality issues. But the problem comes when I send the design to the machine and the machine does the embroidery. So, I was really shocked as to why this happened and what the reasons were.

Why is it important to know how to avoid unequal letters in satin stitches?

After a lot of struggle, one day I got an expert who gave me some ideas as to why the problem or error occurred in the machine. His explanation goes like this:

When the machine uses the satin stitch horizontally, it pulls the fabric from both sides. So, it gets shorter over there. When the machine uses the satin stitch vertically, it goes up a bit due to the pressure of the stitch fit.

So, after that, we decided to make the vertical line a little shorter than the horizontal line. And then we tried this accordingly, and we succeeded. You can also do the same to avoid this problem with lettering. You can keep them 0.3 to 0.5 mm shorter than the horizontal line. Then after the embroidery, your design will be perfect at the edges. This is a simple but very useful trick for those who don't know why this problem occurs after embroidery.