Tell me this has happened to you..........PLEASE!! I am working on pincushions for the farmer's market. I wanted to do some samples with embroidery on them as you have probably seen in one of my photo albums. I digitize four designs at a time that fit nicely in one hooping. I made the designs all the same so there would be less color changes. Ok, working good so far. The embroidery is going along fine and I finally feel comfortable enough to leave the room. Not the best idea apparently. I just wanted to go to the bathroom!! I came back and one of the designs is practically sucked down into the bobbin area. Of course, I have to hack it to shreds just to get it out of the sewing machine. Did I mention that I put the hope down on top of another fabric before I started cutting away?? Now I have a hole where one of the designs was when I left the room and another innocent fabric with a few random slices in it. Sounds like I saved three designs easily, doesn't it? NOPE. You see, the designs weren't finished stitching out and now I have this big hole where there is no fabric, no stabilizer, nothing. Now I have to become Dr. Frankenstein and patch up the hole with pieces of extra stabilizer, making sure I don't tear the good stabilizer. Did I mention that I was using "tear away" stabilizer??? Did I mention that I have to keep everything hooped so it will all line up again?? Now I'm sure that you expert embroiderers (is that a word?) will scoff at my solution but I decided to patch it up and use a little hand stitching to keep everything together. Maybe I just have to be neat, I don't know. I only had about a half inch between each design so I could only spray adhesive on the bottom but I needed a little something on top so the foot wouldn't catch in the shreds. Ok, I didn't think to shut the overhead fan off so the top piece of stabilizer would just stay put on its own. I was pretty hot by that time!
Got it done and save the remaining three designs so I guess that's all that matter. I didn't think at the time to take pictures for you to laugh at........I mean LOOK at. You could picture how a stuffed animal might look after a dog finished with it and that would be close. Now back to work!
Keep stitching,
loreen
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