Helpful Tips
Helpful Tips & Suggestions
- Some of our designs are thick with stitches. Keep this in mind when choosing your fabric and stabilizer to prevent buckling. Most of our stitchouts were done on a medium weight twill with a heavy cut-away stabilizer.
- Pre-Stitch a demo of the design using the same fabric prior to stitching it directly onto a garment or accessory. Please note that Esque Embroidery, LLC is not responsible for goods damaged from embroidering them with our designs.
- Some believe that the rule of thumb when editing a design is that you can upsize or downsize a design by 20% and the design will be fine. We do not suggest downsizing the more intricate designs as they are very detailed and downsizing may cause some serious distortion of the design. Also if you are upsizing, be careful that you do not go over your hoop size and if the design contains satin stitching, upsizing can cause extremely wide stitches which will be loose in your final outcome.
- Some of the intricate designs have a lot of jump-stitches. Although we tried to keep the number of jump-stitches down to a minimum, in some cases it was not possible due to the complexity of the design. We suggest that you clip your jump stitches in-between color changes for best results. Make sure that your embroidery scissors are sharpened for cutting jump stitches so that you don’t get any annoying “whispies” in your final stitchout.
- Make sure that you are hooping your fabric and stabilizer correctly according to your machine’s specifications. Otherwise, it could cause many problems during the stitch-out process and distort your final outcome.
- Always make sure that you are purchasing the correct file format for your machine. Each brand machine requires certain file formats to stitch a design. Our designs are available as either a .PES or a .ART Make sure that your machine is able to read 1 of these 2 file formats. (Please note there are no refunds for incorrect file format selection)