How to Securely Set Your Embroidery Stabilizer & Fabric in the Hoop

[Music] hey everybody john deere here from john deere's embroidery legacy and today i'm going to share with you how to secure something in a hoop when it's really really large and you want to reduce movement but I want to be clear this is for items that you don't really care if they're marked or not and what I mean by that is I'm going to use the example of freestanding lace so we're going to be actually using T pins to help secure our actual stabilizer because this is a product that dissolves away in hot water so I don't really don't care if I put holes in it if I'm using a fine fabric that will actually see the penetration from the pins then this technique might not work but we're going to use it with our lace designs and if you've ever had a chance to run our lace designs you know that they are uniquely special and beautiful because they were manually punched one stitch at a time back in the 1950s and we have some incredibly large lace designs I'm talking about lace designs that will actually fit a hoop this size what happens when you have that many stitches of lace in a hoop this size with just one piece of stabilizer you'll end up getting movement and the reason why is because most of the frames were that I found within the commercial industry are standard ly this shape they're round that means that I have even tension all the way around my material and it's not going to have a tendency to pull quite as much in the home market all of our hoops have a tendency of being rectangular which means that the four corners are going to hold really tight and then on these straightaways and particularly these long straightaways that's where we get the pulling now you have to remember with lace it's very important that everything is held securely because if any of those stitches do not lock along the way if the stabilizer starts to pull and you have some areas that aren't connecting then when you wash away the stabilizer it's literally going to disintegrate and fall apart now the way we're going to secure the stabilizer so we guarantee it's no move is by using our t pins these are very very thick t pins and we're going to take our stabilizer which is a wet and GaN stabilizer it does disappear with very hot water and we're going to cut a piece of stabilizer to fit our hoop size and I'm going to lay my base of my hoop down I'm going to make sure that my stabilizer is centered right over top of it and then I'm going to make sure that I hope it in place leaving enough extra stabilizer on each of the open ends the long ends that I see and I'm going to then pull it nice and tight all the way around normally when I'm hoping I try to not pull on my material but in this situation I want to make sure that the stabilizer is secured as much as possible I usually also tell people that the area on your hoop where you actually can tighten it and where you could slide a screwdriver in I always tell them that usually you never like to tighten that after the fact because you can leave hoop burn within an item but in this situation I don't care if I get create hoop burn because it's going to dissolve away anyways so I'll make sure that I tighten that as much as I can so I'm going to use my little screwdriver here and I'm going to go into the slot on this hoop and I'm going to make sure that it is super super tight on both sides once I know that it's tightened down I'm going to make sure that I give it that little um all the way around the edges so that my hoops are securely put in so that the top and the bottom part of the hoop are actually equal and I can see that it's raised a little bit from the bottom right here now I know that my hoop is flush right across the top and I'm ready to insert my tee pins to stop any movement now we're going to start inserting our tee pins and I'm going to make sure that I go in right flush to the frame and then I can slide my pin over and make sure that I lock it in place this way when it starts to pull on the actual fabric on the stabilizer it's going to pull it in and what's going to stop it dead in its tracks the t-pin itself and I'll continue to put these tea pins in all the way around all of the open areas of the frame specifically along this side here I'll put one on each side here and I'll move all the way around to make sure that I am secured and that way I'm going to have zero movement in this design and it's going to come out perfect every single time so now we have all of our pins inserted all the way around all the open areas and that way we know that as this runs and it starts to pull in on the stabilizer these T pins are going to stop the stabilizer dead in its tracks and we're going to get perfect placement and perfect whooping of that lace design every single time now we finished running the lace design on our hoop and keep in mind this is almost 30,000 stitches of freestanding lace that was run on one layer of stabilizer and what I want you to notice is how drum tight this still is even after putting all those stitches on this piece of stabilizer this is going to wash away and it's going to stay connected in every area it's not going to fall apart at all now a little bit of advice when you're running freestanding lace I try not to use polyester thread it has a tendency to look a little spongy and wiry when it's done if you want your lace designs to look nice and flat and be soft when they're done I suggest using rayon thread keeping in mind that rayon is not as strong as polyester but it's not synthetic and it has a more natural feel to it if you really want to have good results I would suggest pre winding your bobbins with the same thread as your top thread that way your lace is going to look perfect on the top and the bottom well I hope you enjoyed this video and give this technique a try on any design that has a lot of stitches in any fabric where you don't mind if it's been marked by some t pins hi everyone john deere here and thanks for watching 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Channel: John Deer's Embroidery Legacy

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Length: 7min 3sec (423 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 23 2018