puff embroidery

Foam or puff embroidery is done by using 4mm or 6mm special foam and trapping it inside a letter.

The needle penetrates the edges resulting in the foam being cut. The only real concern is the top of the satin stitches. Like the top of the letter "I" or the ends of the letter "T". Because there is no needle penetration at the ends of a column or satin stitch, there is no cutting action.

This is what I do:

1) Put the foam down. You can even just hold it by hand in position until the first stitches trap it. Needs to be over cut or larger than the letter / word

2) Set density column and arc column to 1.0

3) Digitize the entire letter but be slightly in on the edge. Or your digitizing a slightly smaller letter.

4) Then go to the ends of the satin stitch and manual put stitches in at 1-2mm. Really what your doing is just cutting the foam by using small stitches at those ends. If you are doing a script B, you would probably not have open ends but pointed ends which would not need these small stitches.

5) So now you have a letter that is stitched loosely. The foam should now be pulled off around the edges. If you can't that’s okay and leave it.

6) Now digitize the word again with .4 density exactly around the letter.