stitch font. She says the machine has cut the threads not her. Since I have not used the pattern before I am not sure if its faulty or not. I am assuming that when it was digitized they forgot the stop. Please advise, AND as always, Thank you so much for your time

I do not like to have to do this, but, on the few occasions that there is no stop stitch and it starts unraveling, I use the old method of hand embroidering a few stitches over the raveling area, being sure to catch the loose end. I do this before removing the item from the hoop. When you finish whipping three or four stitches carefully over the raveling thread, push your needle by hand through to the bottom of the hoop to finish by knotting or locking the thread into the bobbin thread. Following the path of the satin stitching for three or four loops down and up through the hoop with a hand needle and same color of thread will do the trick. A tiny drop of fray check to the bobbin thread area, where you lock off your hand stitching will secure the thread, too.
Angel

One of the 'fray check' will help you. I always use it on buttonholes - it works well but advisable to do a test first in case it stains the material.

Hi It means that the digitizer did not put a locking stitch in the design This is quite a common mistake quite a few of them make Lorraine

Good answer Shirlene. That or Fray Check.

Use a product call Fray Block on it:

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I have found some designs that did not have the stop as they should. I put a dab of clear finger nail polish on them. H&*

Can you tell us which design it is?
I have used one from Cindes that did not have a lock stitch on it so it unraveled where the stitching stopped. There is software you can use to fix it but I don't own it. I think it's Embird.

If you don't have Embird you could put Fray Block (not Fray Check) by June Taylor on the ends and hand stitch the missing part back in. Don't use Fray Check without testing because it could leave a dark spot.
I hope this helps.

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by mousemaster 08 May 2011

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