What the warnings mean

Lilo watches your design while you work. When something might sew badly, a short note appears in the warnings tray, in the right-hand column, under the Sewing setup card. It never blocks you. Each note offers a fix button or a Read more link. You can dismiss any note.

Outside the hoop#

The design is bigger than the hoop's sewing area. The machine cannot sew what is outside.

Fix: pick a larger hoop (Smallest hoop that fits), or scale the design down. Read Sizing and hoops.

Too dense#

Too many stitches land in the same 1 square millimetre. The thread may break or the cloth may pucker.

Fix: open the shape's settings and raise Row spacing (fills) or Density (satin). Read Fixing sew-out problems.

A stitch was too long#

Stitches over 12 mm can snag, so Lilo split them. The design is fine, but long stitches often mean a big, open fill.

Fix: shorten Stitch length in a fill, or use a pattern with shorter stitches.

A shape made no stitches#

A shape could not be stitched, for example if its thread is missing. Fix: select the shape and give it a thread.

The design is empty#

Nothing to sew yet. Draw, type or open a picture.

Many colour changes#

More than 8 colour changes. Each is a stop to swap thread on a home machine.

Fix: merge similar colours. Read Fewer colour changes.

A high stitch count or long sewing time#

A design with more than about 30,000 stitches, or over an hour of sewing at 850 stitches a minute, is a long sew and a bigger file.

Fix: make it smaller, use Standard quality, or use fewer fills.

Tiny regions#

A shape under about 1 mm wide is too small to sew as a fill. It will blur or snap thread.

Fix: delete it, make it bigger, or turn it into a Triple run.

Satin too wide#

A satin column over 8 mm with no split has long, loose stitches.

Fix: turn on Split above in the Satin section, or change the shape to a fill. Read Satin tips.

Letters too small#

The letters are shorter than 6 mm with 40 wt thread, or 4 mm with 60 wt. They will fill in.

Fix: make them taller or switch to 60 wt. Read Small letters.

Fonts and text#

• Below or above the font's range: the font suits another height. Pick a different font.
• Custom font small: custom fonts sew best above a minimum height.
• Missing glyph: the font has no letter for a character you typed.
• Text longer than the path: the end would run off the curve.

About dismissing#

A dismissed note stays hidden until the problem changes. Reopening the project shows it again.