Marj I spray starch fabric 4 times then iron on the iron-tear-away Hoop this then float normal medium tearaway Still get some puckering.

for applique i use what we call it VISOFIX ( unsure of spelling ???) u iron it on and peel off the back great leaving like a sticky tape effect especially if you applique material is satin type fabric (slippery) this any help to you guys as it stops that puckering. non applique designs i have a roll of heavy tear-away at the back with of hoop and float it under the hoop keeping roll at back of machine it works gr8 no puckering at all. hope this helps :) happy sewing guys * 4 u all

Thank you for all your comments. dlonnahawkins what do you mean "fix" and I agree when I do tear away this might cause puckering because it looks fine and it is about an hour later you see the puckering flowers for all

Thanks, Raelene, for your answer. I love to do quilts, but on the white or muslin material don't want the stabilizer to show, yet I don't want a heavy stabilizer to give a stiff feel to the quilt face. But if I tear away, then the embroidery is stiffer than the material it's sewn on, and the stitches don't have the stability & I get puckers. I wonder about a lighter weight cutaway with a tearaway, then leave the light weight cutaway behind the whole quilt square? I'm talking like OESD or Floriani, the cutaway that's almost 'sheer', if you know what I mean. Hope I'm making sense here, it's early yet. Marji

What fabric? Is your design to dense for the fabric? Hugs and flowers for all.

love reading all your answers, i am learning so much from you all. flowers for all:)

love reading all your answers, i am learning so much from you all. flowers for all:)

Seldon do I hoop my fabric, no matter what I am using. I "fix" my fabric to the hooped stabilizer. I have also used a product called Magic Sizing, which is a fabric stabilizer(found in the spray starch section of the grocery store) when i am doing cotton - like in pillow cases. I found that hooping the stabilizer only and tightening it has good results, and will not leave the hoop mark on the finished product. Good stiches to you.

I am using cottom with no stretch

Have you tried hooping JUST the stabilizer and then pinning the project fabric to the stabilizer? It makes it easier for me to get the project lined up with out any stretching. I use the long quilter's pins and put them all the way around in the hoop "margin" so the needle won't hit the pins as it sews. Tear-away is probably not stable enough if you are sewing on knit fabrics, so try a cut-away for t-shirts and such. The tear-away should be fine for regular woven fabric.

I am willing to try these and ir200r do you hoop your cutaway I have been told not to hoop

Raels, if you do all that and still get puckering then it might be in the way you hoop. Try not to stretch the fabric as you hoop, and make sure it lies flat. Also that the warp and weft threads are straight, not wavy. Warp and weft should line up with your hoop centre top to centre bottom/same for left to right. Hope this helps, hugs and flowers.

Cut away on knits, cutaway or tearaway on stable fabrics. i have used iron on interfacing on my sample stitch outs, you can get a good idea if the design will work. I have never tried it on a project because I would not know how to trim.

This is only my opinion of course and Im sure many will disagree..
when you use tearaway and you pull the stabilizer I think it pulls the design. I also think when you stitch the tearaway is not dense enough to hold the fabric tightly so it slips. I never use it myself. I never have puckering on anything. I use med weight cutaway and never have a problem, I dont ever spray with starch or anything..maybe its the tearaway? Only my thought..my opinion ...Im probably wrong!

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by marjialexa 02 Mar 2008

My friend, don't assume you're wrong, if it works for you, you're not wrong! There are so many ways of doing machine embroidery, many patterns & machines, what works for one may not work for another. I have found with tearaway that it often looks good until I tear it away from the outline, then I get puckers on denser stitches. And sometimes the process of 'tearing' no matter how carefully done, does seem to pull at the stitches. Thanks for sharing your experience! Your projects bear out that you do good work, my dear! Marji