What do you do with the unused stabilizer for embroidery projects

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03-16-2011, 04:00 PM

#41

rslindiana

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I love finding out there are others who are as cheap - er I mean thrifty - as I am! :o)

I love the suggestion of just not cutting it. I think I could make that work if I just tape the roll to the left hand side of the hoop... gotta go check.

03-17-2011, 08:03 PM

#42

kathidahl

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Originally Posted by patriciaponder

For the smaller pieces, I use them at my regular sewing machine to start sewing on at the beginning of seams so I avoid the nesting of thread tails.

Great idea!!

03-17-2011, 08:06 PM

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kathidahl

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Originally Posted by Marysewfun

Quote:

Originally Posted by ljgraham

someone showed me how to hoop my material, set it up in your machine and place a piece of stabilizer underneath. no need to hoop a whole piece. Can stick it on the back with spray if you want to. use's up those small pieces

I do much the same - in fact I have even taken like a 4 1/2 sq of stabilizer, marked the center, match it to the center of the fabric that will be hooped and embroidered, and lightly taped down the corners of the stabilizer where I know the pattern will not be stitching. Now that is cheap!! - but it has worked! :lol:

So no buckling?

03-21-2011, 08:02 AM

#44

vschieve

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Originally Posted by oatw13

I reuse mine all the time. I don't sew them together, I just lay them on top of each other. If the pieces are really scraggly, I use them for test runs.

DITTO!!!! And I thought I was the only miserly one!