I have a question for cuties. I have stitched a beautiful lily and the stitching has puckered around the base material. Is it possble the upper thread is too tight?

by colonies1 17 Aug 2009

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I'll bring it to the top so maybe someelse can help as I am not able too

by moyed 18 Aug 2009     

Cheers for that.

by lbrow 17 Aug 2009

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I am in agreement with eva. It's probably the stabilizer or your hooping may not be tight enough. The fabric could have been slipping in that particular area or as eva says poor digitizing. Try testing the part that puckers on a different fabric, & see how it does. You may need heavier stabilizer. *

by moyed 18 Aug 2009     

Will try it again. Thank you

by nonmusicmom 17 Aug 2009

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I agree with eva. It probably involves your hooping or your stabalizer. A hint about hooping is to buy the soft rubber pencil grips. The ones that you slide onto a pencil to make your grip better and not keep your hand from hurting. Take a pencil grip and slide it onto the hard plastic turning part of your bottom hoop. This makes it much easier to get your fabric and stabalizer good and tight. I hope these tips help you get your joy of embroidery back.

by moyed 18 Aug 2009     

thank you. I have used the non slip matting and that works well, but the design was very heavy so guess will try something else for this project.

by simplyrosie 17 Aug 2009

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Here is what Anita Goodesign says about puckering:

"We recommend using an interfacing on all of the fabrics used in this design (this is taken from one of their tile quilts). Fusing interfacing to your fabric will prevent it from puckering when it embroiders. We use a medium weight fusible interfacing, some of the brand names are “Armo Weft and Whisper Weft.” You can find these or similar types in any fabric store. We simply fuse the interfacing to the yardage before we begin
embroidering. We even use it on the applique fabrics
and border fabrics. This insures that all of the fabric has the same hand. You will still need to use stabilizer!"

by moyed 18 Aug 2009     

used the medium stabiliser. It was only after the frame was taken off that it seemed to pucker. think the design was too heavy. will try on a handtowel next time.

by evajungermann 17 Aug 2009

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I don't think so.
Tension faults cause to show the bobbin tread on the surface or thread breakage. (does this word exist?).

Puckering might be caused by wrong or too less stabilizer or too dense design for the choosed fabric. or poor digitizing. (so YOU could not avoid it) good digitizers give some underlay to the designs for preventing this problem.
is it a light one you used?
sometimes you can iron out the puckering with a steam iron, but that is no option if you embroidered a ready item.

by moyed 17 Aug 2009     

yep the design is very dense, maybe keep for thicker materials.,, thank you.