quilterlaurie

After you hoop with a good tear-away stabilizer use the fix button to out line the design area before you sew. It also helps to go into the HELP setting and re-align your stitches. should work fine

Shorebird

This one looks much better!! My suggestion is to iron a lightweight fusible interfacing on your fabric (assuming you will not "see and use" the back of this) before you start. I have better luck when I have enough or more than enough stabilizer. I hoop the heaviest weight one I can, after fusing the interfacing, then I baste my fabric onto the stabilizer (do not hoop because I am too heavy handed and I torque the fabric!) and then I float another piece of stabilizer under my hoop. I have embroidered some extremely dense designs ( like Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit set ) onto quilting cotton and have not had ANY" puckering........Good luck!!

pdriggs

The best advice I have gotten is to hoop the stabilizer, and then pin or spray baste the fabric to the stabilizer. This has worked for me with all types of stabilizers.

I also use the fix button to outline the embroidery area. If you can slow down the stitching some it may help also.
Phyllis

shy

I have this pattern and have use it..I found out with this dense stitches..u need a heavier material..if u have made sure the hoop it tight..and all else is right..too many stitches like this pulls the fabric on light fabric..I used a heavy cotton and denim ..it worked ok then..

weezie

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All of the designs on this quilt top are dense. In addition to a very heavy fusible stabilizer, I used a lightweight fusible interfacing on these designs. There was a long period of time when I didn't do any and, when I went back to finish sewing enough blocks for this quilt top, I forgot to include the lightweight interfacing and I had some trouble with the stitching not meeting where it should have. I had to figure out what the problem was and decided it was because I forgot or neglected to add that interfacing. Once I started using it again, I had no more problems. When I was preparing to make the quilt top, I pulled all the stabilizer/interfacing off all the way up to the design and then cut it off close to the stitching. Whenever I get around to quilting this top, I will probably do free motion meandering within each block, up to the designs, which should make them really stand out.

As has been said already in this thread, you need to stabilize very well and not stretch your fabric when you hoop. Tear-away stabilizer is a 'no-no' for dense designs.

onemoe

agree with the density of the fabric

juliea9967

I would try it with 2 pieces of stabilizer. If the stabilizer has a grain I put one pieces with the grain going up and down and the other piece with the grain going sideways. If this doesn't work I figure that it is probably a "design" problem and you either have to live with the puckers or throw out the design. I usually throw out the design.

sewbeeit42

These suggestions are all helpful as I have an embroidery machine which I haven't used yet for fear of errors. I think I might try a less dense small project with which to begin.

dms

If I were you, I'd try using two layers of stabilizer. Hope that helps.

Dottie Bug

weezie your quilt is a beauty,, .............follow the hooping advise w/ 2 stabilizers