USING PERFECT STICK STABILIZER A. B. C. D. 180 Place one piece of Perfect Stick Tear-away Stabilizer in the embroidery hoop with the paper side facing up. Then, score an “X” on the surface of the paper with a straight pin or seam ripper from one corner to the other. Once you get it going, you can use your hands to remove the rest of the film from the Perfect Stick Stabilizer. Use the straight pin or seam ripper to help start peeling back the film from the sticky surface. This stabilizer is also tear-away. So upon completion of the project, gently pull the design away from the stabilizer. With Perfect Stick Tear-away Stabilizer, embroidering on even the most difficult items is achievable! Enjoy quality stitching with no residue or gummy needles. Perfect Stick is ideal for hard to hoop items such as bulky towels, backpacks, collars, napkin corners, or socks. It’s also great to use for fabrics that can be damaged by the hooping process by hoop burn, which happens with fabrics like leather, velvet, ultra-suede, and satin. With Perfect Stick you will enjoy the stability of a firm yet flexible stabilizer that will support all types of embroidering on most fabrics. Now that you have a basic idea as to what this stabilizer can be used for, let’s talk about how to use it. Perfect Stick is essentially a “peel and stick” style stabilizer that has a smooth paper film covering the sticky surface of the stabilizer until it is ready to use. You always want to hoop the stabilizer first before removing this film. The easiest way to remove the film is by using a straight pin or the tip of a seam ripper to score the film. It is very important to make sure you are only scoring the film, which means making a slight indentation through the film, and not cutting through the whole piece of stabilizer as this will make it unusable. You can either score a specific area inside the hoop and remove the film from that one spot, or draw an X as seen above from corner to corner in the hoop and remove all the film. Since we are covering almost the entire hoop with the towel in this project, we went ahead and removed the film before we ran the placement stitch. After you run the placement stitch, it will be time to place the towel in the hoop. The tutorial will explain how to line it up with the placement stitches, however we wanted to note that your fabric needs to be ironed and wrinkle free. Also, make sure when you apply it to the stabilizer, that you are smoothing it out so there are no ripples. Once you have finished running the entire design, you can pull the design from the hoop the same way you would with tear-away stabilizer. Once it is taken out of the hoop, remove as much excess stabilizer as you can from the back of the project. Washing it a couple of times will remove any additional excess stabilizer you could not get off of the project. Follow the pictures in this tutorial to see how we created the rest of the project before running any of the designs.
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