how do you embroider on towels ans such when they won't fit in the hoop?

You are all so right about the towels. I use a sticky spray on my stabilizer then put my towel on it. I use water soluable stabilizer on top. I learned some extra thing reading from others. Hugs &*'s

imandy, I use sticky back stabilizer ( score the top paper with a pin and remove the top paper.and place item on sticky ) and only hoop the area that I want to embroidery. I also place Water soluable stabilizer on top ( floating on the top ) . And tear off the top when done. Hope this helps. Here's a flower for you.

I found a neat help for THICK towels. I made a template just smaller than the shape of the inner hoop circumference and baste by machine a towel to tear-away stabilizer then I hooped the tear-away only and layed water soluable stabilizer on the top and sewed out my design perfectly! I didn't have to deal with the sticky and worry about pulling out the loops of the terry cloth the toweling was made of. It was pretty from the back too! ;)

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by anna25775 27 Feb 2008

love this idea jrob, I'll try to keep it in mind for my next towel project. thank you and a flower for you

by jrob 27 Feb 2008

you are so very welcome!

by imandy2 27 Feb 2008

thanx for your help, do u use the same thread on the bobbin also

by clawton 27 Feb 2008

Great idea. I'll have to remember that. I bought a Do All Quilters Hoop and that seems to work well also.

Mandy, if you care to scroll back through the previous questions, you'll find loads of info on how to embroider onto towels. You'll need to scroll back quite a few pages, possibly ten or more, maybe twenty even, things move pretty quickly here these days. Flowers and hugs to you.

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by clawton 27 Feb 2008

They sure do move quickly. The pages are really adding up.

by imandy2 29 Feb 2008

thanx very much 4 everyones help. ur these pages do move quickly. just hope i don't miss anything

I do mine almost the same. Heavy or thick towels I use a tear away stabilizer in hoop then baste towel to it. Then I float a peice of melt away stabilizer on top. When done carefully tearaway backing heat up old iron and no water in iron melt away the topping run fingernails over toweling around design and presto you are done. Don't need to wait for drying. My light weight towels like hand towels I do hoop and use melt away on top. Good luck give it a try you will be surprised and love doing them. a flower in the mean time to you.

You don't want to hoop a towel or anything that would hoop burn (leave a mark from the hoop)examples velvet, terry cloth, or similar items.
There are a couple of ways you can handle this.
1. Use sticky stabilizer it like regular stabilizer only the top has paper on it and it is peeled away to reveal a sticky top and the towel is attached to the sticky surface.
2. There are basting stitches that can be downloaded to your specfic machine. Check with the corresponding website to your specific machine. The towel can be basted to what ever stabilizer you choose to use. This prevents the towel from shifting once placed on the stabilizer.
3. There is a type of stabilizer that can be damped and it becomes sticky just like the peel type. Both will provide a sticky surface to adhere the article you wish to embroider. Also you will need to use a water soluable on top. Most people just float it on(prior to sewing) when the machine starts sewing the first few stitches will anchor the water soluable down. Of course once done the water soluable washes out. This is done to prevent the stitches from sinking down into the loops of the terry cloth.
I hope this helps you. Others may have some specific brandnames of the stabilizers.
Lisa Atwell