About Satin Stitching for Digital Embroidery Machine Designs

If you love embroidery and considering a new stitch to learn, think about statin stitching. Satin stitching can also be completed by using a digital machine. Therefore, you can practice creating your own satin stitching for digital embroidery machine designs.

• Anyone who loves embroidery will be familiar with the term “satin stitching.” This refers to creating an image by repeatedly stitching various flat stitches over it. In satin stitching the fabric is covered repeatedly with the same stitch to create the image. This gives a raised pattern that resembles and feels like satin. It is also possible to complete a satin stitch using a digital embroidery machine.

• Using the satin stitch on an embroidery machine is not too complex for a beginner who is just learning to embroider. When done by hand, the satin stitch is completed using slanted or vertical stitches. However, on the embroidery machine this is not possible and the satin stitch is completed by using the zig-zag stitch.

• When using an embroidery machine it will be important to keep the fabric moving along at a proper pace. The key to producing a satin stitch is having the stitches as close together as possible. Gaps between the stitches will not produce the desired design and look sparse in some cases.

• Though you might be tempted to use regular thread for sewing, a satin stitch will look its best when embroidery thread is used. Actually some designs will look better when a higher quality of embroidery thread is purchased.