Originally Posted by Prism99
With flour sack towels, if you heavily starch (heaviest) you shouldn't need a stabilizer underneath; the fabric would be quite stiff and not distort when you sew. Of course, you would need to wash the towels afterwards to get the starch out.
But starching takes more time than applying stabilizer. Also the purpose of the stabilizer it to keep the stitches from sinking into the towel or whatever you're embroidering. Once the starch is removed you don't have that nice base for the stitching and it won't hold up as well to continual laundering.