Use your hoop’s grid template to
Use your hoop’s grid template to place marks on the stabilizer to locate the straightline center and right and left edges. Be sure to place your grid gently over the sticky with the bowed side up. Otherwise the sticky will do its job and grab onto your template.
5. Now lay out your design’s placement on your fabric or garment, again marking the straightline center and right and left edges. Important: Place these marks on the backside of the fabric.
6. Grasp your fabric from the backside on the marks to make a gentle fold and, lining up the fabric marks with the marks on the sticky, carefully lay the fabric, backside down, on the sticky.
7. Smooth out the fabric, ensuring it is flat and secure on the sticky all around.
8. Now lock the fabric to the part of the stabilizer that is hanging over the edge of the hoop (the part with the paper still on) just to make sure it doesn’t get caught on anything while embroidering. I often just pin it but double stick tape works great, too.
9. Mount the hoop onto your machine and ‘float’ a layer of stabilizer (tear-away, cut-away, or whatever type is recommended for your fabric) between the embroidery hoop and the needle plate.
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