JACKET BACK DIGITIZING
Fire Investigator Jacket Back Digitizing at 68,900 Stitches
A high-visibility jacket back design built to read at a distance, with a flame-and-axe icon worked into the “I” of FIRE without breaking the block-letter outline around it. An 11.02 by 5.85 inch design digitized in Tajima format at 68,900 stitches, run across eleven stops in white, red, and dark orange thread to keep the outline crisp on black fabric.
01 · Artwork receivedFire and rescue jacket back artwork with block lettering and a flame-and-axe icon built into the I. 02 · Digitized file previewRendered preview showing the white fill and red outline pass, with the flame-and-axe icon locked into position inside the I, before a single stitch runs. 03 · Production worksheetWilcom EmbroideryStudio, Level 3 Advanced: 68,900 stitches, 3 colors, 11 stops, Tajima format. 04 · Finished stitch-outThe finished jacket back on black fabric, white lettering and red outline holding crisp with the flame-and-axe icon locked inside the I.
White fill, red outline: the two-pass build behind every letter
Every block letter in FIRE INVESTIGATOR runs as a white fill locked down first, then a red outline pass on top of it. That’s the combination that reads clean on black fabric from a distance, which is the whole job of a jacket back. The flame-and-axe icon set inside the I follows the same logic at a smaller scale: white and red first, with a dark orange pass reserved for the flame detail that neither of the other two threads can carry.
Eleven stops, three colors: why the numbers don’t match
The worksheet shows 3 colors, 10 color changes, and 11 stops, and those numbers aren’t supposed to be the same figure. A stop is a physical machine event, not a unique color; the machine returns to white or red every time a letter or icon element sitting elsewhere in the design needs that thread again, rather than finishing one color across the whole layout before moving on. Dark orange is the exception here: it runs once, at stop seven, carrying only the flame inside the icon.
A digitized preview before a single stitch runs
Before this file goes anywhere near a machine, the rendered preview shows exactly how the white fill, red outline, and dark orange flame stack up, and where the icon sits inside the I relative to the surrounding letterform. That’s the checkpoint where a placement or sequencing issue gets caught and corrected under our free, unlimited revisions policy, rather than after 68,900 stitches have already run on the jacket.
Specs
- Techniques
- Block lettering + fill icon
- Finished size
- 11.02″ × 5.85″
- Stitch count
- 68,900
- Colors / stops
- 3 / 11
- Color changes
- 10
- Trims
- 35
- Max / min stitch length
- 8.1 mm / 0.1 mm
- Bobbin thread
- 582.33 ft
- Thread
- Madeira Classic 40: white, red, dark orange
- Format delivered
- Tajima (DST)
- Software
- Wilcom EmbroideryStudio, Level 3 Advanced
- Pricing tier
- Full Size ($60)
- Turnaround band
- Complex (8-hour)
- Digitized by
- Gerald Wuestewald
The full worksheet
Every number above traces back to this one production sheet: stop sequence, thread codes, and machine settings Wilcom EmbroideryStudio generated for the eleven-stop, three-color build.
