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ou can use Save2Sew on the File menu to help determine what stabilizer Walter Floriani
would use for your design on the specified fabric. Of course, all the stabilizers recommended are Floriani products, but if you find that you like a different
brand of stabilizer better than the Floriani stabilizers, you can always
use your favorite brand’s equivalent to the recommended product.
Save2Sew does more than recommend stabilizer solutions
for your embroidery; it can also change density, pull compensation, and underlay settings for your design depending
on the type of design and type of fabric you select, using
settings that Walter would use. This works especially well on
purchased designs where you don’t want to manually check
each part of the design.
Fabric Dialog
The first dialog that displays when
you start up Save2Sew function is the
Save2Sew - Fabric dialog.
Fabric
There are more than 60 fabrics included
in the Type of fabric list, and each fabric
has two options: I Didn’t Digitize and I
Digitized:
I Didn’t Digitize
Not all stock embroidery is created equally. Less
experienced digitizers may not use sufficient
distortion to make their design successful on a
variety of fabrics and may make their designs too dense. If after sewing out a sample, you’re
not happy with the results, use the I Didn’t Digitize option to help correct the purchased
design for the fabric on which you want to embroider it.
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I Digitized
Solid and Dense
When you digitize a design, use the I Digitized option to reflect the underlay, density, and/
or pull compensation that Walter would use for the design on a specified fabric. If you built
in enough pull compensation for any type of fabric, don’t select that option. Save time if you
digitize for a specific fabric, and use Save2Sew to create versions of designs for other fabrics.
This type of design is the alternative to
the previous category and the type says it
all: solid and dense. Why differentiate between these two categories and not just list
a fabric type? Remember, this function is
recommending stabilizers for your project
based on fabric type as well as design type.
Magicwand
If you used the Magic Wand tool or the Auto Digitize tool to digitize a design, it
doesn’t compensate for overlap. Use the Magicwand option to fix an auto digitized
design.
Design Type
After you select the fabric you select the type of design you’re digitizing. Several options may
be available in the Type of design list, depending on the fabric you selected. This helps you
understand what types of designs can be put on which types of fabrics.
All Designs
This option is available on its own for more
than ten fabrics/item types like caps, fleece,
napkin corners, and towels.
Design Shape
There’s really only two kinds of designs shapes possible: open and closed. Open
means that the shape has open areas in which unstitched stabilizer will remain.
Close is a solid design which has no interior space in which unstitched stabilizer
remains. Some fabrics types have an Open/Close option, meaning that it doesn’t
matter which design shape you have.
Why this concern as to whether a design is open or closed? When you’re using a
tear away stabilizer with an open design, if it doesn’t tear away in multiple directions like the Floriani stabilizers do, it may leave little tufts of stabilizer behind
on the interior parts of a design. A solid, closed design stabilized with tear away
stabilizer will have far fewer “tufts” of stabilizer remaining.
Again, you can use these option to learn what types of designs may work for the
type of fabric that you’ve selected.
Light
Hooping
Light fabrics like knits, netting, and organza require a lighter design than more
substantial fabrics like denim and wool
This is the only option offered for these
light-weight fabrics.
The list by Are you going to hoop the fabric? usually offers two options: Yes or No.
If you’re going to hoop up the fabric to embroider it, you’d obviously choose
Yes. There are certain fabrics types or apparel items that don’t lend themselves
to hooping. Generally these fabrics are those that offer only the All Designs type
of design like leather and terry cloth. These fabrics will only have the No option
available.
Open, Airy, No Outline, Satin Stitch
Monogram, Satin Stitch Applique
If a fabric doesn’t fall into the All Designs or
Light category, it can generally take different types of designs. The first type is really a group of design types that are open and airy and have no outline, including
monograms small enough to use a satin stitch and appliques.
You can, however, choose No for other types of fabrics as well. This means you’re
planning on hooping the stabilizer and sticking your fabric to it.