How to Create Production Friendly Embroidery Designs

hey everyone John Deere here from John Deere's embroidery legacy now visually embroidery should be as perfect as possible but besides how good a design looks it's just as important that its production friendly on the machine so I'm going to show you now the difference between one design that looks good and isn't quite as production friendly and another design that also looks good but is more production friendly [Music] we had one of our members of our hatch fax route posted a sign that is pretty simple in appearance but sometimes those designs that are the simplest are the ones that you can struggle with the most now it was a checkered board effect almost like a racing flag and just looking at the design I could almost tell that they would have possibly done something a little bit wrong this is a technique that I've been doing for many many years and I found that there's ways to actually make them more production friendly which essentially means you get better visual results and a lower stitch count now the design that I did right here on this side actually runs with almost 2,600 stitches less than this one here and it's a lot more production friendly you can even tell by the backside of the design and how it's actually running all of the bobbin thread that that's going to actually give you a better visual effect and less distortion within the design so let's dig into the software and I'm going to show you exactly what changes I made so that we could get more positive results now the first design I've brought up is the one that the customer did and I'm really impressed with the amount of theory that was put into this design they did change the stitch directions within the design so that they were opposing each other to create some detail and avoid actual blending or bleeding of stitches together now if I turn it off of TrueView and if I look at this design I can see that there's an original outline for the shape and then there's almost a lattice underlay which is defining the entire area and that was kind of intuitive and smart as far as giving a base for the stitches to lay down on now if I do a slow redraw I'm gonna go back to true view and I'm gonna go to my player and I'll just quickly redraw through this design so you can see this sort of lattice underlay come down and this is where it starts to do all of the black fills as objects now this is where I'm gonna do things a little differently when I actually digitized it you can see how it's actually starting from the bottom to the top on these as it's moving forward and then from the top to the bottom as it does the next row and then from the bottom to the top as it continues to go through and essentially there is a bunch of holes carved out there's negative space where the whites gonna go down next and that is one of the things that I've seen digitizers do that I don't necessarily agree with because every time you're carving all of these little shapes out you're actually adding stitches to a design a lot of people think that by leaving this negative space you're actually saving stitches but in actuality you're adding stitches to it and you're also giving the opportunity for pull and distortion of the design so that you'll be able to see gapping a material show through in certain areas so after it does all of the black stitching then she starts from the top again which is a smart move and starts going down through each of the levels and there so going from top to bottom and now from bottom to top and again changing directions and doing all of the white area of the design next now this is again not really in theory wrong and it's still going to sew out fairly well and then at the very end there is a zigzag with a satin stitch border that's going to define the shape now as we saw in the sample that actually looks pretty good the fit note the final stitch count of this design is eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy two stitches now I'm going to look at the design that I did and you're gonna see that things are a little bit different I actually opposed the stitch directions a little bit more then she did my black is running almost at this angle here and my white is running at a completely opposing stitch angle but when you look at the redraw look at what's going to happen I'm going to do a underlay that is opposing the direction of the fill stitch and then I've adjusted a fill one complete fill that is going from the top to the bottom and that is actually allowing for the push and pull compensation I'm exaggerating the pull on either edge and I've actually brought in the you know the push on either side so it looks like a little bit of a sideways egg and after I do that in one piece I'm not carving holes then I'll do the white and I'm changing the stitch direction using a zig zag with an edge run because the edge run is going to define the shape and give it a clean look and then at the very end I'm going to do a black outline the same way that it was done before but this time I'm doing a zig zag with an edge run because it's going to give a cleaner edge around the outside so pretty much kind of the same but I've changed the theory a little bit i didn't carve holes for the black I actually have bolded up the outside border a little bit I always like to give that satin stitch a little bit extra but the real difference is this one now has fifteen thousand seven hundred and seventy one stitches previously we actually had eighteen thousand five hundred that's about four and a half minutes of extra running time so this one here the one that I did will run faster it'll run a little smoother there will it be less distortion within all of these objects lining up and you'll have better results on more fabric types now I know twenty six hundred stitches may not sound like a lot but in reality that's about four and a half minutes of time that you saved on the machine with better results so I hope you enjoyed this little lesson and we'll see you next time bye John Deere here and thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a like down below to join the legacy now hit the subscribe button and make sure you hit the bell to be notified every time we release a new video it's no mystery award-winning embroidery is our history [Music]

Channel: John Deer's Embroidery Legacy

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Length: 7min 4sec (424 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 02 2019