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Fabrics, hoops and the machine

#Fabric

Under the hoop, next to Cap, choose what the design is sewn on. The fabric sets how the stitches are laid, and the worksheet and the app's Set-up list say how to hoop it.

• More underlay means an edge run and a zigzag under narrower columns than on twill, and a closer lattice under fills.
• Row spacing and satin density move to the new fabric's own when a piece still has the last fabric's. A piece you set yourself keeps its setting.
• The numbers are the trade's usual starting points. None has been sewn with Stitch Sprint yet except twill.

• The fabric is saved in the design file. Designs from before v0.20 open as twill.

#Knockdown

A light, open fill under the whole design, a little larger than it, sewn first (stop 1) in the Isacord thread nearest the garment colour. It flattens the pile so the design sits on top instead of sinking in.

• On for towels; the Knockdown switch turns it on for any other fabric (small lettering on fleece, say) or off.
• Click its thread in the list to pick another.

#Caps

• Cap sews each colour from the bottom up and from the centre out, the usual rule for cap fronts. The Cap front preset (2.25 in tall) switches it on.
• Caps get extra pull compensation (cap_pull_factor 1.4), from the one sew-out so far: the Weedline cap opened gaps where an E's arms meet its stem.
• Cap works with any fabric and prints the cap set-up (cap tear-away, 75/11 sharp).

#Garment colour

Pick it from the swatches under the hoop (or the colour box beside them). It is used for the preview, the realistic view, the customer proof and the knockdown thread.

#Hoops

The Hoop menu under the hoop: the smallest hoop that holds the design is chosen, or the one you pick. The sewing area is drawn as a dashed line, a circle for a round hoop. Show hoop zooms out to all of it.

#Your default hoop

If most jobs go in the same hoop, make it the default so you don't pick it each time:

1. Pick the hoop from the Hoop menu.
2. Click Make default beside the menu (it shows only while the hoop picked isn't already the default).

The menu marks it "(default)". From then on Stitch Sprint starts on that hoop each time it opens, and New design goes back to it.

• A saved design file keeps its own hoop: opening one picks the hoop it was saved with, not the default.
• To go back to letting the app choose, pick Hoop: smallest that fits and click Make default.
• The default is kept in Stitch Sprint's settings folder with the shop name and prices, so it holds after the app is updated.
• If the machine profile no longer has a hoop by that name, designs start on the smallest that fits and the window says which hoop is missing. Click Make default (it shows then even on the smallest that fits) to choose again and stop the message.

The hoops listed (sewing area in mm, about 10 mm less than the hoop):

• The tubular hoop sizes are typical ones. Pick the one closest to yours, and check the design sits inside its dashed line.
• Magnetic hoops are nine of the sizes sold as Mighty Hoop, checked against the sewing areas sellers list (about 20 mm less than the inside). The area depends on the machine's brackets, so measure yours. Which way round the rectangular ones mount on the SWF is not known; the first figure is taken as the width. A hoop with "auto": false is used only when picked.