In the Hoop Quilting? Save the Mesh!

[Music] well this is Jenny with Norris crafts and I've been alluding to a way that I have of actually saving what no-show mesh when I do my in the hoop quilting designs and I think I'm finally ready to share it with you guys it's please understand I've played with this it's just maybe better ways but by far this is my best way yet I've done all sorts of stuff anyway to describe what I'm doing using is I create a tacky open area or a tacky window in my hoop but I'm not using a stabilizer I'm not using paper I'm not using anything like that I'm using this amazing product that I happen to look into and it's made by 3m and I found this huge roll which is partially gone now because I've been using it at Lowe's and it's the 3m it's extra sticky duct tape and it's a smooth side glossy side on here and a highly highly highly tacky side on the other other aspect of it I tried the duct tape that you get at Michael's and Joanne's and I had no success with it it wore out rather quickly afraid it got caught it was it was not pretty it also was not smooth this is smooth and I think that's the big difference but you can see I found it over by the blue painters tape on the aisle where they have all their tapes and it wasn't expensive I believe I paid four dollars for this humongous roll now let me tell you why I like it first of all it's highly reusable what I was on my hoop right now looks pretty bad but remember I've got cats and I have already stitched in this hoop using this exact same tape I have placed water soluble or I'm sorry no-show mesh on the tacky part 1216 times so I've already I've used it sixteen times and what it allowed me to do is probably save at least four squares or a width of the no-show mesh that is equivalent to the size of my hoop but let's go back to the beginning how do I set my hoop up and what do I do there's a couple things you're going to need to know first of all you've got to have your handy-dandy 3m tape and blue painters tape or scotch tape and then you're going to also need to know the stitching area of your hoop now my Janome my stitching area is not equivalent to my inner hoop ring why is that because I have an embroidery hoop that has to be able to get so far in the design there's a couple ways of determining that you can actually use templates that come with your machine and that's what I'll be using to show you how I create or how I add my tape to my hoop or you can stitch out a box that is the maximum size that your hoop will hold and when you stitch out the box that will determine where you're going to place the tape so let's go ahead and we'll fast forward now and I'll show you how to please all right I've removed the tape from the back of my inner ring and set that aside because it's very sticky and I want to show you it actually pulls off really cleanly I have a part right over here that I tore the tape on so I've got residue but a little bit of rubbing alcohol will actually take that off without even you don't even have to blink to get it off I keep a box of alcohol pads that I find at the pharmacy Walmart Walgreens any of those and I will occasionally wipe my needle if I'm using spray-on stabilizer it helps keep my needle sewing machine needles sharp you know and not sticky as well so I'm going to go ahead and I'm just rolling it off now but I'm go ahead and remove that and then I'll sit we're going to set up our hoop to apply the adhesive all right in order to cut my tape the correct size I'm going to measure and frugal in water or no shell mesh and I'm frugal and measuring my tape so from here to there it's 7 inches so I'm going to need two strips that are 7 inches long from here to there turn that around it's about I'm going to go with 8 inches so I'm going to need 2 strips in my tape that is both equal 8 inches long I'm going to turn my hoop over and I'm going to place my template the correct way in my hoop and then I'm going to adhere and I apologize for the glare on that I'm going to adhere my template I'll fix it to the inside of my hoop are using a little bit of blue painters tape it will come off to stand in our problem I want to point out again that the stitching area of my hoop is this blue box I cannot stitch outside of that area so rid of that goal I don't think I'm going to be able to no so I'm going to turn my hoop over and now I'm going to apply my tape so that it actually lies just outside of those dark blue lines I'm going to take one of my shorter pieces of tape and they come out to the side and you can see that as I apply it I have a little bit of the space next to that dark blue lunch line I didn't get that aren't quite snugly enough you can see how tacky that actually is so when I'm applying it I want to hold it put it on one side hold it and pull it slightly not too much just enough to give it a little bit of I don't even know the word for it a little bit of lift again I'm going to go to my opposite side same thing let's cut a little bit small we save that one for last I'm going to go my long end same thing inside the blue lines down one hand snug right here and since my one type is cut a little bit too short I did not do a good job of making sure that I could get to my tight sorry another on the opposite long side one hand snug it here and now I'm going to sorry place my top tape one edge down snug fit here and now I'm going to turn my hip over I'm going to press it down so that I can get it nice and snug on the back of my head I'm going to go ahead and remove my template and you can see that I've created a little table inside of my hoop just to verify and I don't want to get this caught on my tacky it doesn't have to be even but it does have to be outside of that dark blue tooth there are they there you can see it so I've got a margin for a margin of error now you may not want to fold this up you don't have to you can trim it with the scissors please don't use your good sewing scissors you'll really know ruin them so I usually just pull it up just to make sure that when I place this in my hoop that my food is going to hold it and it actually does create a nice little snug pooping for my projects and I'll be right okay and now I've got my inner ring inside of my outer ring snugged it up using my screw and now I'm going to add my one piece of stabilizer how much stabilizer do I have to use well in this case and let's just do a little comparison if I was going to simply hoop the the no-show mesh I would need a minimum of ten to eleven inches across and I would need a minimum of probably 12 inches lengthwise with this technique all I have to do is measure my window and it's six and a half by seven and that's what I need so you can see the difference between the 10 to 11 and the six to seven it's quite a big difference so I've got my no shamash cut to the 6 by 7 and when I place it in my hoop I'm going to place the top edge and adhere it then I'm going to take my mesh and I'm going to slightly and gently extend it so that there's absolutely no wrinkles from the inner center out I'm going to place it on the sticky and I'm good to go to my sewing machine when I'm all done all I have to do is take the corner very carefully because this is new actually it's easier to pull off once you have something sewn on it take and pull it and it just simply pulls off and then also from my camera and I can rehook another piece immediately same way top down bottom corners if you can grab them pull so that it's smooth and takes to the machine I hope that helps you and I hope that also helps you embrace the concept of using the no-show mesh with minimal waste until next time

Channel: Jeannie Horton

Views: 70,229

Keywords: in the hoop quilting, machine embroidery, hooping, stabilizer window

Id: 0LfCQPmkomg

Length: 11min 35sec (695 seconds)

Published: Sat May 13 2017