Pfaff creative 2140 Owner's Manual - Page 145

6. Embroidery Assistant 6-19 I Embroider on thin fabrics If you wish to embroider on very fine, thin fabrics such as chiffon, organza or silk, we recommend making the following preparations prior to embroidering: • Place the fabric between two layers of Water-soluble stabilizer and hoop all three layers. The fabric remains stabilized, it can no longer be distorted. The stabilizer can be dissolved in water when the embroidery is complete. • Alternatively hoop Adhesive-backed paper (see 6-2), which enables distortion-free embroidering and onto which you stick your fabric. When embroidering very sensitive materials we recommend placing some additional Water-soluble stabilizer onto the fabric. • Another very effective possibility is to cut out a "fabric frame". Hoop some thick fabric, so that it gets an impression. Remove it and and cut out a window of about 2 cm within the impression. Take the fabric you want to embroider and place it on the window: hoop both layers. This makes it possible for thin fabrics to be hooped tightly. If you want to embroider a very dense design. some additional embroidery stabilizer can be placed loosely under the fabric. • Embroider the bird designs shown above, from card 45. one after the other. You can control the embroidery process better by pressing the "sew slow" button. Embroider on fine knitted fabric such as Jersey You can embroider even these fine and stretchy fabrics quite easily if you prepare them properly and use the right equipment. • Hoop Adhesive-backed paper, remove the upper layer of paper and stick the fabric on the surface according to the loops direction and making sure that the fabric is not displaced. • Additionally we recommend placing Water-soluble stabilizer on the fabric. Embroider the selected design with a Jersey needle. • If you want to hoop the fabric, proceed as described on the left, if an impression of the embroidery hoop is formed, you have to iron it away, with much steam, from the reverse side after embroidering.