puckered embroidery
I have a wonderful Janome 15000 and embroidered an apron for g/daughter and it puckered pretty badly. I am so disappointed with it and I know it is my fault. Not sure what I did wrong. I was unable to hoop it so I used tearaway stabilizer and sprayed with basting spray and then stuck my apron to it. I pinned and taped apron to hoop as best I could and floated another tear away stab. Design had a little over 35000 stitches. The name stitched out beautifully, but the cupcake design puckered. The apron is so cute; came from Hobby Lobby and is black with ruffles with pink ties. What should I do to prevent this? Would it have been better to use cutaway? I have about 5 more to do so want to do it right? Thanks for suggestions.