Tuesday Tips with Kimberbell | Prevent Puckering: Stabilizer & More!

hi everyone and welcome to Tuesday's tips with Laurie today we'd like to talk about preventing preventing those puckers to start with I kind of want to explain what we're talking about so I don't know if you can zoom a little closer here so this is a cute little cupcake and this cupcake design you can see it's puckered right up here right here and around some of the sides because it's a heavy stitch out now we used a good stabilizer but there's a few more extra things that you can do besides just a stabilizer that will help prevent those puckers from happening and I'm going to show you on top of that this is one that we've actually added those extra items and you can see there's no puckering even though it's a larger heavier stitch there's no puckering here and around here so that is what we're trying to help you prevent and I know if you do those heavy words stitch out sometimes that's frustrating when you get it done and it's puckered in your leg though don't fret I'm gonna show you at the very end of the video of just a couple ideas that you can use in order to try to take your project that you already have done and remove some of those as well and get rid of some of that puckering even though your projects already finished alright to start with the first most important thing is stabilizer just to remember if it's a heavy stitch out it's a heavy stabilizer don't use a medium or a lightweight stabilizer on a really heavy stitch out this is pretty heavy and this is cutaway but what if you're making a quilt and you don't want the stabilizer to remain in you can do a tearaway but use a heavyweight tearaway or a medium weight tearaway don't go with your lightweight tearaway this is really strong it is a tearaway though that you can see you can see that it is a tearaway and that is what we used on the back of this particular stitch up so I'll show you how we did that a little bit later the next thing is if you're making a stitch out that you requires a water soluble stabilizer you're gonna want to double I always double it and this is a heavier water soluble stabilizer it's just a fibrous one so double your stabilizer and if you're stitching for example if you're stitching out your quilted basket and it's stitching and has started to rip just a little bit the stabilizer is because maybe it happened to get nipped while it was being trimmed or something you float a piece of stabilizer over the top of your design because it's a wash away you can get away with done it's gonna wash out and what I mean by float is if this was washable you would just lay it over the top of your design where you were straight stitching and start stitching again you'll stop your stitching then start again after you've waived your stabilizer and then it will continue to stitch that stabilizer in but when you're finished with your project you can actually wash that out and it should work for you the next stabilizer I was going to show is the no-show mesh this this is a really nice pliable it's something good that if you want to leave it in your quilt that's a great one to leave in your quilt however you want to double it as well doubling its gonna really help with the actual puckering of items so this is the actual stabilizer that's going to go in your hoop so now there's another type of stabilizer we'll get to that in a second the next thing I want to share with you is Tarot magic and I love it it's truly magic so the Tarot magic is something we use all the time and I use it when I'm preparing on almost all my appliquéd pieces as well as my background so I've got two pieces of fabric the exact same and one's been treated with terial magic I'll give you a guess which one and one has not been treated with Tarot magic so you can see how much strength it gives that piece of fabric right there so I'm going to show you how I actually put the Tarot magic on my fabric so here I have a background piece of fabric I'm going to use for my background just like I did for this cupcake so the first thing I do I hit face down and the reason I put it face down this is this has got a lot of starch it's a high starch content you can kind of see I want to I want to be able to let you see that there's actually a lot on there but the reason I do it face down is I don't want that starch if this is a darker color discoloring my fabric at all Tyrael magic is what it's called now you can see it's all been ironed in now now this is treated can you see how nice and stiff that material has become that is one of the big secrets right there I love this stuff that helps us so much the second thing I'm going to do is I know we've talked about it before it's there's a lot of products out there that are very similar to this it's a fusible welven interfacing or fusible woven stabilizer it can be called either it's like fabric see how I can wad it up and it's it's got a fabric feel on one side and fusible beads on the other and it's called a feasible woven interfacing or fusible woven stabilizer there's many brands that carry it and there's boss solders OSD exquisite pellon if the Pelham brand is called soft or is called shape flex I know that we've maybe mentioned that before in other videos but there's a lot of brands out there and they're really really good this is exactly what we put on the back of this which has helped it so so much so I'm gonna show you how you would go about putting that on so the first thing I do is I'm going to take it you put on the back of my fabric then I'm going to be using and you don't want the fusible part you want the fusible part so it's facing the fabric and then you iron it on so it's really simple but if you think of I know the word stabilizer confuses sometimes because you're thinking you're supposed to put it in your hoop you actually putting that on the back of your fabric so it's becoming part of your fabric so if you just remember the stabilizer that's the woven fusible one it's part of your fabric now it's gonna be part of your project so just remember that's gonna stay in your project that's not something you peel off or cut away later that stays in your project and the other stabilizers are ones that are in your hoop that you can tear away cut away wash away if you think about it like that that is going to help prevent a lot of the puckering right there the very last thing that I would recommend as you can see I'm going to take the treated piece not the untreated piece so for example my large applique piece here I want it to lay nice and flat I want it to adhere to this fabric and not just float and bubble like it could bubble a little bit when you're actually doing your satin stitching so I want it to adhere so the best thing or the way I accomplished that first I put the Theriault magic so it's nice and stiff the second thing is heating but I just traced this you could this is the paper side of the heat and bond but I know I'm not gonna use the tracing I actually just take a piece of heat and bond and iron it directly to the back of my applique fabric and I just cut it the same size as my fabric or smaller that's totally fine and then I'm gonna let that cool for just a second I'm going to peel the paper off and I treat it as if this were just my regular piece of fabric I just wanted to give that a second to cool so kinesin yes they're asking if you're using the spray do you also use the iron-on stabilizer I do both I use both these heavy stitch outs you're just going to love the way they turn out have you ever had any stitching where it feels like you're it's pulling some of the fabric or because it's stitched later on it shifts like maybe a face and a knows maybe veers off just slightly or an eye that's because your fabric has been stretched and it's being kind of manipulated in the hoop so this is to prevent that from stretching or the manipulation to happen so I use both both the Theriault magic and the stabilizer here I'll show you this has got the that interfacing the fusible stabilizer interfacing can you see that so that's actually what's on the back of this so then now that I've got the heat and model on the back of this applique piece we would have our placement stitch for the frosting and this would be in the hoop then I just treat this like it's a piece of fabric and lay it right over it I allow this the tack down line to happen and then I trim away the excess fabric so we're gonna pretend like this is stitched down and I'm gonna trim it away as if this was actually my frosting and I'm really great it free taste huh frosting we're gonna make this look like a little bit of frosting on a cupcake so if that was my frosting line and it was tat right here you trim away that excess nurse and then after you've trimmed away the excess that's when I would I in that down and when you iron it down then it is really nice and stuck to your fabric it's not going to shift on you and that way you can embroider around that and it should not have any puckering happen so that's those are the best steps that we've just we stitch out every day and that's what we found works the best for us let me know if you've got other suggestions or ideas of things that you've tried that work for you and I'm going to try - now we're going to try to get some of these little puckers out I know if you can see them it's harder to see maybe on video that rather than up close but you can see there's some puckering here and around here and around here now if you've already made a project and you're worried about I've already got it done I don't want to research it I don't have that stuff right now with me what can you do well the best thing that I found is you lace you lay your project face down and I do have this is a wool mat you can either do it on a real mat if you have a regular ironing board maybe place about three or four layers of fabric down so it has a little bit of cushion the cushion is what's going to be helpful here and then I do take the Theriot magic and I'm gonna iron that down and I try to kind of press around where it's puckering the most with the end of my iron and then I give it just an overall really good pressing and the reason that you're gonna put it facedown and if I had a piece of fabric down and could actually see that you can see the indentation of these stitches so it allows the stitches to go down into your mat but it makes the whole back piece flat if that makes sense because there is a little bit of now the cow flat that is and if you can see we just eliminated all of those puckers and all I did was I from them back using the Tarot magic and I first ironed around these little places where it's puckering and then give it a good press down and the reason it works from the back is there's texture this this satin stitch is popping out on the top and it's a lot flatter on the back so therefore when iron it from the backside the fabric stays flat so I don't know if you could see that I was kind of like fun magic right there wasn't it we have a question what's the difference between tario magic and other spray starches well that is a great question we have tried some of the other starches it I think it has to do with the high account amount of starch that's in the Theriot magic if you've ever I've tried other it this is actually got some other it's called a stabilizer it's not just a starch spray so if you're looking for something if you've got a starch spray and you've tried it and it gives you these same results that's great go ahead and use that but this does have it's considered a stabilizer it's meant to make that fabric really nice and stiff so if you remember when I kind of cut my piece up but if you remember how stiff it made this versus this it would be a super super heavy heavy starch that you would be using that's one of the reasons I would I in it from you know spray your starch on the backside anyway I wouldn't spray it on the top especially of darker fabrics because you'll see those things but definitely will find the ingredients out the difference in ingredients if you like and we can let you know but definitely this is something that we found works really really well for any of these types of projects there any other questions out there we did have one question asking to go over the fusible woven interfacing again you bet all right so this fusible woven interfacing it's like fabric it feels like fabric it looks just like fabric on one side it's like a woven fabric so it's not as tight woven is say cotton or something to that effect but it is a woven fabric and on the backside of the woven fabric is your beads of fusible like glue that's what sticks to your when you heat it up that's what adheres to your the back of your fabric so I like a really good sturdy one so if you're making me say a t-shirt type quilt out there this is what I would recommend that you would even iron on the back of that to stabilize it so it stays nice and straight without stretching so it's kind of the same concept that's what I would have put on the back of your fabric because this is going to be taught in the hoop and you're going to be pulling stitches start to pull a little bit and that keeps it from pulling so there's lots of brands out there just look for the words fusible woven interfacing or fusible woven stabilizer and you'll be able to find what you're looking for there any other questions I think that's it all right well thank you so much for tuning in and hopefully you can go home and make some wonderful projects or take a project that you've already made and get it get it nice and flat just the way you'd like to have it thank you so much for tuning in and we'll see you next week bye

Channel: Kimberbell Designs

Views: 51,435

Rating: 4.9275656 out of 5

Keywords: Kimberbell Designs, Kimberbell, Stabilizer, Sewing, Machine Embroidery

Id: guMLJIN7d6k

Length: 15min 40sec (940 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 08 2019