embroidery on T-shirt type material

I also ruined a couple of T-shirts when I first started doing machine embroidery. Do not use _tear-away_ stabilizer on knits! And ALWAYS use a *new* ball-point needle. Really, it's that simple. Also, be careful of extremely dense designs, or those which go over the same area multiple times.

Use a good quality fusible *cut-away* stabilizer. I like Floriani's "No show Fusible Mesh":

Beverly

You need to stabilize with an iron maybe more than once..do two layers of fairly thing something crosswise to each other, overlapping. AND I would check all routs for both top and bobbin thread..you may have lint in the tracking devices. I will also ask on my other sewing list for embroidery and see what the comment is.

AND I would use a cut-away...not tear away.. tear away tends to pull...with stretchy fabric already you don't need the pulling

I should add that I also discovered Sulky's Solvy water soluble stabilizer works very well *on top* of the fabric when doing knits (in addition to a good tear-away mesh below). They have two weights.

Beverly

G'day Jon

I've just been doing embroidery on a similar fabric with my Janome 9500 only this morning, I use freezer paper to stabilise knit fabrics because it really holds the fabric and nothing moves. Then I float a piece of water soluble stabiliser on top. Freezer paper is available in some stores where they sell machine embroidery supplies....or....in the kitchen wrap aisle of the supermarket. One brand is Reynolds (US) and the box is royal blue and silver, but there are possibly other brands too.

Iron it (shiny side towards the fabric) to the back of the area to be embroidered making sure this piece extends beyond the hooped area and peel away the excess once finished. This piece can be reused a couple of times, just iron a patch over the hole.

Hope this helps? it works for me and I have a huge roll of the stuff! Bronwyn ;-)

J> Hello,

another idea My experienece with nesting thread has usually been a result of upper tension and/or bobbin problems. It might help to check these out first. I also really like to use prewound bobbins. They do a better job for me, really sew out nice. Any fabric that tends to pull, like t-shirt material I use an iron on stabilizer. If possible, before you try your garment get a scrap of material to try, maybe an old t-shirt. The best stabilizer for me is freezer paper, the kind you can buy at Walmart. A huge roll is about 5.00. I use a hot iron and iorn it enough just to make it stick. I use this on just about everything and the price is right. It peels off when you are done. I hope this helps.

Karen