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Choosing the Correct Stabilizer

There are many stabilizers available for use in machine embroidery to stabilize your fabric while sewing designs. Whether you are doing free motion embroidery or programmed stitching, the end product can be improved when stabilizers are used. These stabilizers often will give embroidery a better finished look and prevent puckering and bunching of stitches.

• Tear-Away Stabilizers
  Tear-Away is available in several weights and can be used in single or double layers. It is recommended for use with medium to heavyweight fabrics and densely stitched embroidery designs. After stitching, it can be torn away in either the horizontal or vertical direction. It should be removed carefully in order to not disturb the stitches in your design. It is not recommended for delicate fabrics or sweaters. It is available in Black and White.
  
  
• Iron-On Tear-Away
  This stabilizer is excellent for medium to heavyweight knit fabric. Be sure to avoid stretching the knit when ironing it on.
  
  
• Adhesive-Backed Tear-Away
  Place Adhesive-Backed Tear-Away in your hoop. Peel away protective paper, then lay the fabric to be embroidered over the hoop and smooth in place. This works best for small collar areas, velvets, napped fabrics and embroidering on patch blanks and baby bibs.
  
  
• Soluble Stabilizer
  Use this stabilizer for delicate, washable fabric and high pile fabric such as terry. It is a gelatin sheet that dissolves in warm water. For a terry fabric, place stabilizer top and bottom and place in hoop. For a finished design which can be seen from both sides of the item, use embroidery thread as the bobbin thread.
  
  
• Heat-Away® Stabilizer
  Use this stabilizer for fabrics that can tolerate heat but can not be washed. Also good for designs not dense enough for Tear-Away.
  
  
• Tear-Away/Wash-Away Embroidery Stabilizer
  This Tear-Away has unique Wash-Away characteristics that leaves the embroidery soft and free of stabilizer after the garment has been washed and yet the stitches remain firmly locked.
  
  
• Cut-Away Stabilizers
  Cut-Away is used by professionals and is meant to remain with the garment. It washes well and is excellent for jobs where the stabilizer comes in contact with the skin, such as golf shirts or sweaters. Lightweight cut-aways work well with T-shirt fabric….just spray on a light coat of adhesive and smooth on the stabilizer before hooping. The lightweight cut-away will stablize your design and still be soft against the skin when finished.
  
  
• Poly-Mesh Cutaway
  Woven stabilizer is especially designed for extra stability on lightweight fabrics and knits. Unlike regular Cut-Aways This semitransparent poly-mesh will not show through white garments.
  
  
• Fusible Cut-Away
  This iron-on Cut-Away stabilizer is soft, lightweight and launders well. Use it with designs on knits and unstable stretchy fabrics that call for a permanent stabilizer.

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