Thread: Help! I melted my embroidery

I just picked up my embroidery job from the shop today. It was pretty wrinkly so I decided to press it. Whoops! I really wasn't thinking & now I have split threads & it's part melty. I realized it right away & was only working with a mini iron, but the more I try to fix it, the worse it gets.

Any suggestions besides sending it out to be re-embroidered? I'm so sad, but at the same time, I really am sick to death of this stupid quilt & want to be done with it. Still, I don't want to give my niece something that is going to come unraveled in the very first wash. Is there any way to fix it or do I need to start from scratch?

Thanks so much for all your brilliant ideas, Quilt Border-ers!

Yes, I remember the embroidered talking about using a rayon thread in his machine back when I brought my very first job to him 18 months ago. I know that synthetic threads are really the only option to do dense satin stitching for embroidering a name, I just completely blanked out for a moment. Ugh! I'm so embarrassed.

Take a leaf out of my grandmother's book. "bless it and let it go." Simple, easy and effective. froggyintexas but who is now in The Land of Enchantment, New Mexico USA

Thanks, all. I will head to the fabric shop to get more fabric & send out to embroiderer to get re-embroidered. I took a break & worked on another quilt in the meantime to give myself a break from the Quilt of Never Ending Problems.

Somewhere in my long-ago 'learning' phase of machine embroidery, I read that you should press (w/dry iron) the backside of your emb. item while it is face down on a towel (same method as applique) and I do it that way. IMO, that would be the way to go whether it's machine or hand embroidered.