Lil,
LOVE the towel.



I am TRYING to work on a design but had 3 mess ups yesterday
with it so I gave up.
Yesterday I tried not hooping the fabric, and just holding it in place
until there was some stitches that didn't work.
Next I tried using a Aileen' "tacky glue stick" that didn't hope the fabric
in place either.
Last I tried a basting stitch, still didn't like results.

Today I am going to try doing it the "correct" way which is hooping
the fabric with stabilizer. Sometimes I don't like hooping the fabric
because if not careful it will distort, or stretch the fabric wrong and
when the design is finished it doesn't look as good.

Will post pics IF it turns out right.

I hope someone can help me with a problem. I have a Singer Futura and I need to insert a message with my design, but cannot find any information at Singer help or u-tube. Can anyone give me any info. to do this?

Have you tried hooping the stabilizer, spraying with the 505, and then pining your fabric on top of the hooped stabilizer. I do it all the time putting the pins on all 4 sides so the fabric is held steady for the embroidery process. I hope this makes sense.

Yes it made sense to me.

No I haven't the 505 spray and pins method yet.

Since my fabric was just 100% cotton I decided to just hoop
fabric with the stabilizer and it worked the way it should.

With that being said I did use a new (to me) kind of tear away
stabilizer that I got from Joann's, it is a Pellon not exactly sure
what the item number is but it looks like perforated paper or a
holey stabilizer.

The design I did was from the watercolor birds on Emb. Library
which has 63,789 stitches, and on my machine it took 113 min.
to stitch out (not counting the thread change time).

I will post pictures later of my actual design that I stitched.

Louise that is a beautiful design (went to the link). The perforated paper you speak of I have also and it works well with dense to medium dense designs. Its much easier to remove since it is perforated and find it easy to manage. Thank you to all for your comments on the towel. I was supposed to do another one differently today but as always housework came first with little time later. Will post it though when its done.

Stabilizer question....no more puckering
 

Stabilizer question....please advise.
i am a newbie to embroidery and practicing with different fabrics and designs. Recently, I practiced on a piece of sample medium weight fabric that Joanne's sells - it's shiny on the back side and looks like linen on the front. The design has over 97,000 stitches. This is my third embroidery ever on my Horizon 12000.
After watching multiple videos, I decided to spray baste medium weight cut away stabilizer to the shiny side of fabric and hooped it securely. No puckering when in hoop. When I removed the hoop it had some puckering. Want to redo this design and now I am thinking that maybe I need two layers of stabilizer and use the baste stitch mode before starting the actual design.
Your thoughts? Thanks.

I have the Bernina 440QE with embroidery module. Still learning.....

The type stabilizer is what determines the outcome of your hooped project. Also the type fabric you use also determines the outcome of the project.

I use to think you just put the fabric in the hoop and have a go at it. DOES NOT WORK!

I took some classes earlier this year locally and found that there are just as many thicknesses of stablizers from water soluable to not as there are fabrics to use in the hoop and if you don't use the right size weight for each project it will not yield good results.

Many projects just using a back tear away stabilizer is not enough. You also need to put a water soluable one on top.

Although I have not yet needed the 505 (and I do have it) when taking classes we did do just what you mention here.... hooped stabilizer and pinned fabric on top of it and it works well.

As I mentioned in an earlier message the type stabilizer one uses depends on the type fabric one uses. There are different thicknesses of stablizers just like there are different thicknesses and textures of fabric. Check out emlibrary . com I think it is and they have info about what type stabilizer to use with various types of fabrics.