I agree!! I have tried other sprays and they are CRAP compared to the 505 spray!!!! I love that stuff!

what do you mean, while the hoop is on the machine....you spray away from the machine and then attach. I use a cardboard box that I keep for that very purpose. I clean my hoops with alcohol to get the adhesive off and they work fine

On some of the applique emb work...you stitch out the outline, cut fabric that just fits inside that outline and apply basting spray to the back of that fabric to hold it in place. Then the machine continues to stitch around the applique piece. Some of the applique is free standing, some is left on the fabric, depending on the design and use.

Another tip I have heard is this, for items that can't be hooped... use a medium weight water soluble just under the fabric...if you apply just a touch of water it will become sticky and you can use that stickiness to hold your item in place. They use this method alone, or along with basting the fabric into the hoop.

at one time someone on the board was using the old "aquanet" hair spray, same ingredients as 505 she said, Never found it to try LOL

I tried to do some nice plush towels when I first got my machine, the hoop (outside) almost busted while I was trying to close it over the hooped towel, was going to try some thinner ones but haven't.

with thick items like that I use the sticky one....you hoop in and then score the top paper to reveal the stick side and then line your item up and stick it down. I have tack down designs for 4x4 and 5x7 so then I just proceed with my embroidery. if it really plush use a piece of water soluble over the towel. Your embroidery won't disappear. Hope this helps

Oh. I understand that! Sometimes I think I'm going to need a hammer just to hoop felt and stabilizer! (Which I would let no hammer near my hoop in reality, but it feels like it needs it sometimes!);)

I'm still using the glue stick. It must've been the masking tape that made the needle gum up and NOT the glue. I'm using a little thicker stabilizer now so the design doesn't just pop right out from all the stitching.
I had to try something to save my design! I kept wiping the needle down with alcohol at every thread change and sometimes a couple of times in between. I saved the design!

I ordered some of the spray basting from Connecting Threads. We'll see how I like it when it arrives. I'm pretty happy with this glue stick, though! :D :D :D

I have never had any designs that did a basting stitch first..... :oops:

I got them for free (4x4 and 5x7) at sewforum.com....use them all the time now