Adhesive Stabilizer

Adhesive stabilizers have a sticky side and are great for embroideries that are difficult to hoop. Instead of hooping the fabric, you hoop the stabilizer with the paper side facing the top. Then lightly scratch the surface and remove the paper. You now have a sticky side where you can place the fabric that you will embroider on. You can use the basting function to make sure that the fabric stays in place. When the embroidery is finished, you can tear away the stabilizer.

Heat-away stabilizer

Heat-Away stabilizer is used on fabrics where tear-away or moisture to remove wash-away stabilizer would cause distortion of the stitches or damage the fabric. Hoop it with the fabric before stitching and remove it by pressing a dry iron set for cotton or linen.

Note: Never use water or moisture near the stabilizer because water activates a chemical in the stabilizer that can disintegrate your fabric.

Needles

The needle plays an important role when embroidering. The final embroidery result depends on whether you are using the right needle, if the needle is clean and not damaged or blunt. The normal needle size for embroidering is 80.

Make sure that you change needles often and that you have inserted the needle the correct way, with the flat side facing away from you.

Embroidery needles

The embroidery needle is a light ballpoint needle with an extra large eye in relation to the needle eye. The larger eye has more room for the thread when embroidering and when using the heavier decorative threads.

Metallic needles

The metallic needle is used for metallic threads and other special threads. This needle has a large elongated eye and a larger groove to prevent shredding of heavier and flat filament metallic threads during stitch formation.

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2170 specifications

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