Floriani and Inspira both make heat soluble toppers for just this type of machine embroidery, and they both work well. No water, and no muck :D I cut a piece a little bigger than the embroidery I'm doing (not the whole hoop size) and pin it in place, keeping the pins out of the way. One roll lasts a very long time for me. These stabilizer 'toppers' are designed to support the embroidery stitches and then melt away - if the iron doesn't get 'em (which it almost always does) then the heat of the dryer will the first time they get washed. I don't know what the Glad wrap that is left under the stitches will do when subjected to the dryer. :cry: