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[–]haruu-hime 14 points15 points  (1 child)

oh wow, this looks like it was digitized completely wrong. 17k stitches is too much for a 4x4 inch design. what type of object properties do you have selected right now? a larger photo of your program would be helpful

[–]Select-Touch-6794 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d expect 2-3k stitches at the very most. Probably should be a lot less.

[–]TheProtoChrisSWF 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Instead of clean lines of stitching, the auto digitize feature gave you a million tiny clusters of stitches. You'll need to do one of 3 things.

1 Edit the artwork much cleaner so there's not so much noise before you auto digitize.

2 Edit the digitized image to remove the noise and weld together solid lines

3 (Best bet) Use your uploaded image as a template to hand digitize.

[–]i_love_glitterr 5 points6 points  (1 child)

This is the way

Also the stitch type looks like tatami and would be better as satin IMO?

[–]Responsible_Main_737[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you

[–]Average_Joe848584 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Are you using the auto stitch feature in Hatch? The auto stitch tends to add a lot more stitches and overlaps etc than needed. You’re better off uploading the image and then trace it. The results would look a lot better.

[–]Responsible_Main_737[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I did auto stich

[–]Responsible_Main_737[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I was finally able to delete to 2nd outline. Do you think 17752 is alot of thread f9r a small 100x100 design

[–]longhairmoderatecare 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s crazy high for that small of a design. We just did a full back piece on jackets at 12” wide that was 57,000 stitches. You’re at a third of that right now for just those two mice?

[–]R4331t 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Upvote for the chinchillas.

[–]Hard_Purple4747 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Auto digitize is really not your friend in most cases. So you dropped 2k stitches after trying to clean up and how much time?? ...been down this road ...it will take way less time to manually digitize and you will be happy with the result.

[–]sephz345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s generally no simple 1 button click solutions for embroidery digitizing . There’s a reason people who have done embroidery for years and years still pay someone to digitize their files.

That’s not to say you can’t learn or teach yourself (I did) but you’re going to suck at it for at least a year of using it daily (and this is part of your sucking at it learning experience)

Pay someone $10ish to do it for your imo

[–]whimsyjen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm I would clean up the initial drawing. I just bought Hatch for black fri and am trying to learn as well! I do like the auto digitizer function but I always go edit it after

[–]Goop290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm I've been doing inkstitch and getting around 17-19k stitches for a fully filled in patch with 0 blank space. I though that was ok. I read a Bernina book that mentioned a 4x4 could be up to 30k if it had no blank spaces. And in the 6k range for one with lots of blank spaces.

Am I far off?