I've decided to add a little a monogram to this fabric.
It's a part of a quilt, it's a square.
It was already cut, so this is an afterthought.
How do you get something like this hooped up, when you don't have hoops that are big
enough?
Well, yes, actually Viking does make hoops that are smaller, so if you're doing a lot
of this and don't want to waste this much stabilizer, get the smaller hoops.
But I want to show you the basting and the hoop feature.
I've gone ahead, you can either mark this or even just kind of take and crease and find
the center point that we are working with.
I'm going to just slide the hoop on the machine.
What we want to do, I'm going to just go ahead and pull up a quick little … find my stylus,
monogram here.
I'll just do an S for Sarah.
I've got my 120x120 hoop on.
First thing I'm going to do is just kind of lay my fabric in, I could even use the … kind
of the bottom of the hoop along the raw ends.
So I kind of know I'm semi straight and perpendicular there.
I could use the option to move the center, so put the center position, and then I can
move that.
I can see I'm right about there.
Or I can actually even just do this; I can put that needle down and just kind of slide
it up.
Okay, so just something close there.
Okay, so we know we're going to stitch.
Before I sew I want to use the fix button.
You can do it here or you can actually touch this part here.
That's going put a little dotted line as the first thing it's going to sew.
If you use a little spray adhesive, that can to hold this in place while the first item
is going here.
When we go ahead and push start, okay, it's going to stitch an area … It's okay to just
kind of hold your fabric in place as it stitches.
It's going to stitch a box around the size of the design.
You can kind of see the dotted line around it.
Those stitches are really easy to take out later, so go ahead and push start.
Another place that this is good for is if you ever have any fabrics that are hard to
hoop, like a big towel or something.
Or even if it's velvet, where you don't want to crush the sides and the fabric in the hoop
while it's embroidering.
You don't want to hoop those fabrics.
This will actually attach the fabric to the stabilizer and keep it nice and flat during
the embroidery process.
It really is a nice feature.
if your design was bigger, it would have done the dotted line around the bigger part of
the design.
It's nice and close, it really does the job.
Just make sure you always use the right stabilizer for the fabric you're using.
I've got two layers of tear-away, which we always use on the back of our cotton or woven
fabrics.
If you're working with sweatshirts and you don't want to hoop up the sweatshirt or something,
just make sure you're always using the two layers of cut-away stabilizer, and that really
does the job, too.
Another thing is, if you're ever putting the water soluble stabilizer over the top of,
like a towel, where the nap is going to be.
That's another feature, you can almost . .. That basting stitch helps hold that piece, that
clothing on top not actually move around once it's actually ... right before it starts to
do the rest of the stitching.
It's a nice little pit, if you ever have to pin things or tape things, this is a great
way and a great function to use.
Once again, there's a little function here, but also that's what fix is, right at the
function bar that will turn that on and insert it right before your first color.
Here we are, we have now a monogram in the center of the block.
You can then take this over and put it into the quilt that I was doing and not have to
actually waste all the extra fabric.
Once it's done, you do want to just take your seam ripper, the embroidery is finished, seam
ripper and then go ahead and remove the stitches around.
Of course this tear-away will tear-away on the backside.
If you're concerned about cutting your fabric, which can be a concern, you want to take your
scissors and then trim from the backside.
Then that way if you clip anything, you're clipping stabilizer and not fabric.
All those things that you kind of live and learn of oops!
I shouldn't have done it that way.
This will actually just remove all the threads from the topside.
Here we go.
Just keep on doing that, so that is basting in the hoop.