In the Underlay Embroidery Video Series, I am going to teach you why you should use Embroidery Underlay Stitching in your embroidery designs and which types of underlay to use for the different types of embroidery stitches. This will give you a very good understanding of the basic concept of underlay stitching.
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I am going to teach you about embroidery underlay stitching. I start with an article called, “How Important Is Embroidery Underlay Stitching?” This is the documentation for the first video explaining what underlay stitching is and the different types.
The Importance Of Underlay Stitching?
Video: Intro To Understanding Underlay Stitching
In this first video in the Understanding Underlay Stitching series, I am going to teach you the basic functions of underlay, the basic rules of underlay, and the different types of underlay stitching. Knowing why you should use underlay stitching in your embroidery design and which type to use is key to having a design that will look great! Underlay stitching is the most important and most under rated element of creating your design. Like anything else that is built, you need a good foundation and Underlay is the foundation of your embroidery.
Video: Understanding The Underlay Stitching Settings
In part 2 of this Underlay Embroidery Video series, I explain and show you the underlay stitching types and settings inside of the Tajima by Pulse Embroidery software. Each embroidery software has its own names for the different types of underlay stitching but many of the terms are universal within most embroidery software programs. I also show you how to create basic manual underlay under tiny letters.
Design Files For You To Sew Out
Design Files to Download and Sew out. I have provided DST files
Run Stitch Samples: DesignFiles/Run stitch samples.DST
Letter File: DesignFiles/Column.DST
Flower File: DesignFiles/Flower.pxf
Flower File: DesignFiles/Flower.DST
Part 2-Manual Underlay
During this module, I teach you how to create underlay stitching manually when the automatic settings do not work in your software. There are times when your designs or lettering will look much better when you apply underlay manually. You have more control over the underlay stitching and it can make a huge difference especially when you are dealing with tiny lettering.
Video: Introduction To Manual Underlay
Do you ever have this issue? No matter what you do or what type of underlay you apply to your lettering, you cannot make it look the way that you want it to look? In this Manual Underlay video series, I will show you how to overcome some of those issues.
Part 1 is the introduction to How To Create Manual Underlay For Your Embroidery Designs.
Video: Basic Small Embroidery Lettering Sizes For Manual Underlay
In Part 2 of this presentation, I will show you Small Basic Embroidery Lettering and the sizes that will look better when you create them with manual underlay.
Video: Creating Manual Underlay For Small Basic Block Letters
In Part 3 of the Manual Underlay Embroidery Video Series, I show you how to create the manual underlay stitching for small basic block embroidered letters. These letters are 4 and 5 millimeters tall. You will see the exact process that I go through each time I work with small lettering.
Video: Creating Underlay For Small Block Lettering With Serifs
In this Manual Underlay Embroidery Video, I show you How To Create Manual Underlay For Small Block Embroidery Lettering With Serifs. I will also show you how to create manual underlay for small digitized lettering.
Video: Creating Underlay Under A Complex Fill Object With Holes
In this Manual Underlay Embroidery Video, I show you How To Create Manual Underlay Under A Complex Fill Object That Has Holes in the design. These holes are to remain open in the embroidery design and sometimes they can create issues with the automatic underlay settings.
I started out creating the entire segment manually. When I had the webinar, several students made suggestions so I created this design using automatic underlay in parts of the design and manual underlay in other parts. This is a combination that is working fine in this design. It may not work for all designs but it is a good method to use whenever you can and it still has the same effect as total manual underlay.
Thank you to all of you that gave me suggestions or were questioning why I was doing it entirely manually. I always welcome suggestions; it leads me to investigate new ways of doing things and we can all learn new techniques as a result!
Video: Conclusion Of Creating Manual Underlay
In this last Manual Underlay Embroidery Video, I show you how to finish the complex fill object with the combination of automatic and manual underlay. I also show you the same complex fill tree that I created entirely with manual underlay. I sewed out both versions and they were very comparable in quality.