Must Haves for Beginning Embroiders!
- Nicole Lovelace
- Jun 8, 2015
- 2 min read
If you're just starting out there are some essentials for getting fantastic results from your appliques and embroidery. Here are a list of my top buys for stocking your sewing space!
Heat n' Bond comes in a few different varieties for different applications. For applique work you'll want to purchase the "Lite" version. This allows you to cut very close to your tackdown stitches without stray threads and iron down your applique fabric to prevent bubbles and wrinkling after your items have been washed. If you haven't tried Heat n' Bond Lite on your applique fabrics do it today and you won't regret it!!
2. Stabilizer on the Roll
If you've been purchasing your tearaway, cutaway, and water soluble stabilizer from the bolt then you know how annoying it can be to get just the right size to fit your hoop! Buying a roll of stabilizer that is precut to the correct width for your hoop is such a time saver! It will really make your hooping fast and easy!
3. Curved Embroidery Scissors
Small cuticle scissors, duck bill embroidery scissors, or curved embroidery scissors... whichever you choose you'll be so glad you found a pair that has the perfect curve when it comes to snipping close tackdown stitches.
**If you're like me and have a tendency to lose your mini scissors try clipping them to a lanyard to either wear around your neck during busy times or hang on a hook near your machine.**
4. Starch
I know before I started embroidering and sewing I felt like there was very little need in my life for a fancy iron or areosol starch. Shortly after I began I saw what a difference starching an item during pressing came make with presentation and also reducing puckering. The spray on starch will stiffed your fabric enough to keep garments from stretching during floating (you should still properly stabilizer your items with cutaway or tearway as well).
**Make sure to use a clean tea towel or pressing cloth to protect your garment from scorching or brown residue from using starch!**
5. Dental Floss
Yes...I know we're still talking sewing/embroidery. If you've ever had tension problems you know that finding that tiny little thread that is stuck in the machine path can be such a pain. The best way to keep your tension discs clean and free from lint and debris is to periodically thread your machine with unwaxed dental floss and pull through(do not thread through the needle, but run the floss through all the tensions and uptakes of your machine).
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