Rats

I thought I was being so smart!  Well - you know what happens when you get that attitude, and yes it happened.

I have two digitizing programs for machine embroidery designs.  One is fairly inexpensive, and the other is horribly expensive.   One I used successfully this year and it worked beautifully although it was such a dense design - way too many stitches.  The other has always overwhelmed me.  The one I used was the less expensive - of course.

Christina and her friend are really getting into this gourmet kettle corn stuff.  I do aprons, so I thought it would be really great to surprise her with aprons that were embroidered with their logo. 

Yeah.

I used the less expensive program.  This time, there were a lot of stitches that should have been there.  Not good at all.  I didn't even put it on the machine.  So I got the big program.  I digitized one form of the logo.  It looked really good on the screen.  I took it up, loaded it, did a brief trial by stitching portions of the design.  All looked good.

So instead of doing the whole thing (and I should know better) I did the apron.   There were still portions missing.  When I tried the old tried and true way of filling in - using a permanent marker - the fabric absorbed the ink and it spread.  Ugly. 

I returned to the computer and then could see why.  There are little bits of colors that couldn't be picked up.  So I fiddled with it, but couldn't fill those in.  I KNOW there is a way, but... 

I took the other logo and worked on it.  Last night it looked really great.  This morning I reloaded it on the computer and it looks weak.  I think there are colors there that don't show up.  I am going to do a trial to see what it really looks like, and if it is thick enough I will then put it on an apron.

So how was your day?