Embroidery Basics Articles

Cross section of overlapping embroidered shapes.
Perpendicular Stitch angle overlap
When the stitch angle is perpendicular to the overlapping object, the top object may grab the thread of the under object and
pull it apart causing a gap. This gap can easily be avoided by adding extra underlay stitches under the first object. We call
these special underlay stitches "Ticky Ticky Underlay". These very few underlay stitches can really improve the quality of your
embroidery. The trick is to add the Ticky Ticky by hand as a Manual or Run stitch.
These stitches become necessary where the top object sews across the bottom object. (figure A below). The Ticky Ticky
underlay is not needed if the top object sews adjacent to the under object and just butts up to it as shown below (figure B
below).
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