As a digitizer that had to learn the importance of underlay, pull compensation and density, when Pulse first came out with the idea of recipes I wasn’t sure it would be very useful. Now I am recommending that people to use them all the time. I always say a good digitizers is control freak, wanting and needing to control what happens on the machine during the embroidery process. The better you are at understanding and controlling things the better the quality of the embroidery you can produce.

A customer just sent me a design that was a very simple one letter and two numbers. They had tried to make the design themselves using the keyboard lettering and were not happy with the results. That’s why they sent it to me to do. I was curious what they had or hadn't done so I asked them to send me their file for a little look. Figured I would critique the design and give them some feedback. I opened their design and discovered it had no underlay and no pull compensation and it was going on knit. So I explained to them how to use the recipes that it makes it so much simpler for the rookie to be able to create nice designs. When learning to digitize there is so much to take in, it is nice to have some details like density, pull compensation and underlay taken care of for you. By choosing a fabric/recipe when starting a new design the rookie digitizer only needs to worry about making the translation of design into stitches, simple right? NOT! At least it makes one part of the digitizing process easier.

The Embroidery Dinosaur

Beverley Field

beverleyfield@shaw.ca