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From: Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden>
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sassy wrote:
> On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:21:23 -0700, Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote:
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>>sassy wrote:
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>>>This is for the ladies in the Building blocks playgroup. I need the
>>>picture to be about 2X3 so I can put words above and below.
>>>
>>>Thank you for your help!
>>>Sassy
>>
>>Haven't you asked for this three times already? I see that you got
>>some responses - if you didn't like what you got, why don't you say
>>WHY? It really doesn't help to just keep asking, saying "it wasn't so
>>good" or something like that. And your image is almost square, so
>>without stretching it, it can never by 2x3 or even what you probably
>>meant, 3x2 (width comes first).
>>
>>Anywhere, here's a quick pass at it, without any modification to your
>>original graphic. If you don't like it, please say EXACTLY why not.
>>It may or may not be fixable.
>>
>> - Herb
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> Thank you Herb!
>
> I am sorry, and I thank you for being considerate and explaining
> proper etiquette instead of just flaming me.
>
> yes, I did send this three times. Again, I am sorry I did not do it
> correctly and explain what was wrong. I am still quite new to
> embroidery and to explain what I think is wrong may be incorrectly
> stated, but here goes.
It has nothing to do with embroidery - it's like going to the doctor
and saying only 'it hurts'. Then coming back two days later and saying
'it still hurts', without saying what, how much, where, etc.
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> One of the ones I received had way too many jump stitches. The
> stitches were so small they were sinking into just plain old cotton.
> (I was testing the stitches).
It's a small design, with some very narrow lines. Thread isn't like
ink, and you can't do the same things with it. You may want to use a
water-soluble stabilizer on TOP of the fabric. It works when
embroiderying terry towels, too. Those thin-line ladder rungs may
never be right. A re-drawing with thicker rungs, wider apart, might help.
> The next one was way too dense in the area of the ladder on the truck
> and it did not look like a ladder.
That's the other extreme. As drawn, you have a Hobson's choice - too
thin or too thick. There may be no happy medium.
> This is out of my league. My supervisor found out I had an embroidery
> machine and thought she could just hand me a picture and be able to put
> it onto some shirts. Now it is 5 aprons and 8 t-shirts. She wants
> them by Tuesday.
Ouch! I sympathize. It may be difficult, or politically awkward, to
explain to her what is involved in doing anything other than stitching
an already available commercial design. And even then, to do it right,
the design should be test stitched on a piece of the target fabric.
Check out the cost of professional digitizing (google for cost of
digitizing embroidery designs for some examples).
> Please accept my apology....Now I know what I should do. Actually, I
> am hoping not to have to do this again for awhile.
Isn't being volunteered fun?
> I work full-time
> and have 2 small children at home, so time is precious to me.
>
> Thanks again,
YW
- Herb
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