I think you are awesome for posting this. I’ve bookmarked it for future reference. I think the use of the embroidery hoop is ingenious.
This dark denim looks great!
Thanks for sharing your experiments and settings! Look forward to seeing future posts re: fabric.
Hello! What are you setting for the material settings? I want to try the crushed satin settings. Also, if you don’t use the interface would the settings be different? Thanks for the help!
The settings are show in the pictures. I show results of a few settings. If you don’t use interfacing then the design won’t hold up well when it comes to washing and there also might not be much of fabric left.
Wow, thank you for the information! Your sampling is impressive. I’m glad you pointed out the crossgrain stress effect.
Thank you for the reply back. I was referring to the fact that it is not a proofgrade material, but I see that you have to measure the thickness of the fabric and include the height of the hoop.
Nope. I just focus on the material. Auto focus is your friend mostly….
So glad you decided to share this in the GF Community - I follow you on Instagram and love seeing your sewing creations! I haven’t had much luck using fabric in my GF, but with the information you shared, I am now inspired to try again, so thank you! I look forward to seeing more updates/posts from you about this topic.
Thank you
I have more sewing projects coming up and so there will certainly be a continuation of this post. One of our sails also shredded and so I will be trying out sailcloth which should be fun.
I used your settings for dark denim on my dad’s pants (he had been asking me to lengthen them for a year, I finally did it and delivered in person).
They worked really well on darker denim, though this particular pair was a lighter weight, so without interfacing, it would’ve frayed. He had heavier weight denim that was so thick it didn’t require a fusible interfacing.
He also had a heavier weight light denim that didn’t really show any engrave when I tested it (slightly burnt yellow), but it cut fairly well. Though I ran out of fusible, so I didn’t want to try anything elaborate.
Invaluable information! Thank you for sharing your results!
No problem! I finally got around to doing another one just now on protecting your engraved fabric Always happy to share any of the information/lessons learned I accumulate.
I hate to sound dumb but what does the 700/7 setting mean? I am looking at my settings and wanted to verify
Speed?
Power?
Lines per inch I used 270 with 1 pass but I had really dim results when I tried to etch at less than 970 on a cotton artist smock - I am trying to etch a design that I will repaint on a demin jacket and am trying settings… Any feedback anyone?
Thanks in advance…
700 would be speed, 7 would be power.
If if you are engraving denim, results will vary depending on the fabric and color. I needed to put fusible interfacing behind my denim since I’m essentially burning away fabric and dye. So the light colored denim I tried before turned out a burnt brown, and the blue jeans had a nice light color, but frayed a bunch of threads.
I don’t exactly understand what you’re trying to do, but I would check out @MyDogsThinkImCrazy’s posts on fabric. She does many different varieties and shares her results and settings in the forum.
No problem! It is addressed in the original/starting post. It is the first bold line.
Do you have a photo of the results? What is the material weight? Has it been bleached? In general cotton is fun and all but not as practical. Polyester holds up much better.
I wash this jacket a lot and have no issue with fading or it falling apart. If you want the same results with cotton then I would interface it with a polyester material and use settings that blast through the cotton layer.
Thank you so much for your replies – it helps! I cannot wait to get into this next project. I will post some results if I ever get anything worthwhile.
Do you mean 7 power or 700? I tried a lower power with my white cotton smock and nothing appeared at all.
700 is the speed. 7 is the power for what she has listed up there. White cotton sounds like a tough one-no dyes to burn out and will need to be tweaked to show burn but not burn through. I don’t really work with fabrics, but @MyDogsThinkImCrazy gave awesome advice.
If it’s a natural cotton, I believe there is a post on a canvas tote bag that showed good results. Here is a link to the settings. You’ll have to go to the top to see the picture though, the settings were shared very far down on the post:
The settings format is
So yes, 700/7 in the format of speed/power would have 700 as the speed and 7 as the power.
So you have a photo of the setup you are doing? Of how you have it set up in the bed of the glowforge? A photo is much more helpful then an explanation.