Quilter7x

Sulky makes several different kinds of stabilizers on rolls for about $18 each. Use your 40% off coupon at JoAnn's.

Which kind to use is your preference. I have the wash-away, the tearaway and the sticky backed kind. I have used the sticky backed kind most because I know for sure my fabric won't move in the hoop with that on the back. At the same time, it can be difficult to take it out of those little tiny places on the back.

pieces

If the pattern isn't to dense I use a tear away stabilizer.
If the design is very dense I use a cut away stabilizer, they are a little heavier.

pstoner

Thanks I knew I had asked the correct group! You are all so helpful. Please all give yourselves a big hug from me.

buckeyed

There is a stabilizer known as WEBLON. It is a cut away but is very sheer and I love it! Great to use on baby things because it is very stable and is not thick like regular cutaway

Little RoO

I also use iron on stabaliser...I find it holds the fabric the best and then I try and remove as much excess as possible after I have done the design

pstoner

Thanks, and that is just adorable, as you know this is my first time using my embroidery machine (goodness I have had it a year).

Little RoO

If it's a baby quilt then bunnycup.com have lovely designs...I really enjoy the embroidery on my machine...it took me a while to get used to it and to produce really lovely embroideries..it is all to do with hooping...spend time and get it centred and nice and tight and you will get some lovely results.....I now finish all my quilts with a little message on the back using my embroidery machine...if I can help at all please shout...good luck

hobbykat1955

Go to Joann's and buy tear away stabalizer for machine embroidery....I do allot of it.

dflynn

same for me.. tear away stabilizer