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Stabilizer
To obtain the best quality embroidery, it is important to use stabilizers.
Types of stabilizer
Water Soluble Stabilizer will dissolve in water. Use this stabilizer for cutwork or lace embroidery, and also for the right side of looped fabrics such as towel to avoid loops coming through the embroidery.
Sticky Stabilizer is a sticky paper used for securing a small fabric or work that cannot be secured in the hoop. It is also used for velvet and other napped fabric that would be permanently marked by the hoop.
Usage:
The stabilizer should be attached to the wrong side of fabric.
More than one layer may be required.
Felt or stable fabrics do not need to be stabilized
and you may embroider directly on it.
For firm fabrics, you may place a thin paper under the fabric.
The
embroidering fabric, which cannot be ironed or for sections, which are difficult to iron.
Cut the stabilizer larger than the embroidery hoop and set it on the hoop so that the entire piece is
fastened with the hoop to prevent looseness of the fabric, see page 5.
Adhesive (Iron-on) Stabilizer
Place the Wrong side of fabric and the glossy side of the stabilizer together. Fold up a corner of the stabilizer and fuse it with an iron.
NOTES:
Fold up a corner of the stabilizer, to make it easier to peel off the excess stabilizer after stitching.
Ironing temperatures vary depending on kind of adhesive type stabilizer.
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