Stitch Sprint Help › Reference
Glossary
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Applique | A piece of fabric stitched onto the garment and edged with satin or zigzag |
| Bean stitch | A triple run: forward, back, forward in the same holes. Used for small text |
| Bird nest | A tangle of thread under the fabric, often from a too-dense spot |
| Cap mode | Sewing order for cap fronts: bottom up, from the centre out |
| CIEDE2000 | The colour-difference formula used to find the nearest thread |
| Colour stop | A pause in the DST where the machine changes needle |
| Counter | The enclosed opening in a letter (inside an O, A, B) |
| Cut-away / tear-away | Stabilizers: cut-away stays in the garment, tear-away is torn off |
| Density | How close stitches are. Fill: row spacing in mm. Peak density: needle penetrations per mm² |
| Design file | .design: a Stitch Sprint design's pieces and settings, to open and change |
| DST | Tajima stitch format, read by SWF, Tajima and most multi-needle machines. Holds stitches, jumps, trims and stops, no colours |
| Edge run | Underlay along the inside of a column's edges |
| Fill (tatami) | Rows of running stitches covering a wide area |
| Jump | A move of the needle without sewing |
| Knockdown | A light fill under the design that flattens pile (towels, fleece) |
| Medial axis | A shape's centre line; used for run lettering |
| Mitre | A corner where two satin columns meet on a diagonal line |
| Needle order | Which needle each colour stop uses, set on the machine |
| Pass | All the stitching of one colour in one piece |
| Piece | One item in a design: artwork, text or a placed DST |
| Places to check | Spots the app rings on the hoop for a look before sewing |
| Pro file | A professionally digitized reference DST Stitch Sprint is measured against |
| Profile | The machine's limits (field, needles, hoops) and the engine's numbers |
| Pull compensation | Making shapes slightly wider, since stitches pull the fabric in |
| Push compensation | Shortening column ends, since stitches push the fabric out along them |
| Run | A single line of running stitches |
| Satin | Zigzag stitches laid side by side across a narrow column |
| Stagger | The shift of fill needle holes from row to row, so they don't line up |
| Tack-down | The applique stitch that holds the fabric before the border |
| Tie-off / tie-in | Small locking stitches before a trim / after starting |
| Topping | Water-soluble film on top of pile fabrics so stitches don't sink |
| Travel | Stitches that move the needle from one place to the next, ideally hidden |
| Trim | The machine cuts the thread (encoded in DST as 3 jumps) |
| Underlay | Stitches sewn first under a fill or satin to hold the fabric and lift the top stitches |
| Zigzag underlay | Open zigzag under a wide satin column |