Would you like to know how I starch my fabric for embroidery ?

Cotton Starch Fabric


Mix 2 Table spoons of powder starch with 400ml of water in a jar with lid.
Cover ironing board with an old towel.
Lay the pre- shrunk/washed cotton fabric wrong side up on the board
Damp sponge or dab with a lump of cottonwool the fabric until quite wet with the starch mixture
Place the tear away on top and dab this wet also
Allow to soak for a moment
Using a press cloth to protect the iron begin to press it all dry
The fabric will stick to the tear away
The tear away stabilizer will look a bit crumpled and wrinkled
But the fabric will be nice and flat and very stiff
Iron it dry on both sides lifting it away from the towel that also might be sticking
Allow to air dry before hooping
After embroidering pull the tear away from the back
There will be much less puckering and better still I adjust my top tension lower by two clicks on the screen and it reads 3.6
NB MY BLOCKS ARE CUT SMALLER THAN THE HOOP SIZE: but stuck to the tear away I can still hoop them .