Your Design Needs an Underlayment
If your embroidery is puckering, shifting, or looks uneven after sewing, your design needs an underlayment. Underlayment is the hidden foundation stitched beneath every embroidery design and skipping it or setting it incorrectly is one of the most common embroidery digitizing mistakes made by beginners and even experienced digitizers. This guide explains what underlayment is, […]
Please Include the Knockdown / Tackdown Stitch
The knockdown tackdown stitch embroidery technique is one of the most requested fixes from embroidery shops and one of the most commonly skipped. If you have ever run a design on fleece, terry cloth, or 3D puff foam and watched the stitches sink into the fabric or lose their shape, a missing knockdown stitch in […]
How to Fix Puckering by Using a Full Underlay and Bottom-to-Top Stitching
If you want to fix puckering in embroidery, two digitizing settings solve it faster than anything else: a proper full underlay and the correct bottom-to-top stitch direction. This guide shows you exactly how to apply both. Puckering happens when stitches drag loose fabric inward with no foundation to hold it. The result is a wrinkled, […]