Hoop your fabric and stabilizer as usual. Use tweezers to remove any smaller pieces of foam or a heat gun on low setting. That way the tiny bits that remain after the removal of the foam will not be very visible, and your embroidery will look tidier. For best embroidery results, it is advised to match the color of the foam to that of the embroidery thread. Machine embroidery foam comes in all the colours of the rainbow and easy to shop for on Amazon or eBay. The stitch spacing is to be set at 0.16 mm and underlays removed. The capping objects needs to sit exactly on the edge of the Satin object, should be narrower further in and should have feathered edge that points inwards. You want the foam to be able to do its job and hold the Satin stitches that will cover it nice and high.Ĭapping objects at the ends of your Satin objects will hold the foam down and also ensure that the foam does not stick out at the ends. By increasing the stitch length you ensure that the stitched will not push down the foam too much. The tack down stitch will hold the foam sufficiently in place.ĭigitize a Single run stitch in the middle of your object and set the stitch length to 4 mm. Stitching underlays would push the foam down, therefore they need to be switched off. The standard stitch spacing value for puffy foam embroidery is 0.16 mm, so the penetration points are much closer to each other. The penetration points must be much closer for the foam to be cut properly, so at the end you can just pull the excess foam away easily. This distance of the stitches is too high for puffy foam embroidery. The default stitch spacing in Hatch Embroidery is 0.36 mm. If you have a slightly wider object, make sure you turn the Auto split off to avoid stitches in the middle of your object. The objects in your design should not be much wider than 7 mm, which is just a bit over the width where the Satin fill would start to split if you have the Auto split box ticked. Satin fill is the only one that has no stitches inside the object.
The foam should not be pushed down with stitches within the object. The way puffy foam embroidery works is that as the needle stitches going from one side to the other along reasonably narrow objects, it cuts the foam with every penetration point.
Tack down stitches are added to hold the foam in place.Puffy foam embroidery is always done with Satin fill.It can easily done with Hatch Embroidery Digitizer. It is very popular for logos on caps and backpacks commercially, but as you can see in the tulip design I created for this article, you can also use it in decorative machine embroidery to give your design an extra dimension.ĭigitizing for puffy foam might be a bit more technical that your every day digitizing, but if make sure you follow a few rules, it is actually not that complicated at all. Puffy foam is commonly used to achieve 3D like raised embroidery.
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