Sulky 8.5x11 stabilizer, 8.5 x 11 12-Pack, White

Hate tracing your embroidery patterns onto your permanent fabric? This is for you! Just photocopy your pattern onto the Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy sheet, peel from the backing and place the sheet onto your permanent fabric, embroider as normal. When you are done wash your finished product as you would normally and the backing dissolves. Just as though it was never there. So much easier and less chance for error.

When I embroider, I am always timid to draw directly on the fabric. This paper is a life saver. Easy to draw on and even goes through the printer smoothly. The paper sticks very well to the fabric and does not move/budge once I begin to embroider. I have yet to wash it off, but based on the other reviews, it seems to dissolve right off with no issue! 10/10

Works great! Came off easy after my project and stayed on the whole time I was stitching. I did stick a pattern on my cloth and got back to it about a month later. I had to tape it down on one side but as soon as I stitched the outside of the pattern it stayed. I wouldn’t recommend leaving it on too long, though. Otherwise works perfectly.

Im fairly new to embroidery and have been using tracing paper a lightbox, and tracing pencil that is Red. I have been looking for a way to have my pattern show up darker so its easier to follow and the Sulky Solvi is a GAME CHANGER! I followed the directions and put a piece of the paper into my laser printer and brought up the image on my computer and hit print. The image prints beautiful on the Sulky Solvi (I can see it soooo well)! The paper backing comes off with ease and you place your sticky side of the pattern down on water your are embroidering on. Get your needles and thread going - you will LOVE being able to really see the pattern well! Once your project is complete, follow the directions by gently agitating it in water a few minutes to remove the sticky paper. I helped it along by using my fingers to gently rub in places. Rinse well and let your project air dry. There was no sticky residue left. Game Changer for me - this will be the way I put my pattern down from now on - thanks Sulky!!!

Really easy and simple to use! This was really adhesive to the sweater and did not budge at all once I put it on. It stayed nicely, and when I rinsed it under warm water, it washed right off! I drew an image in pencil and put this on a dark blue sweater which made the pencil difficult to see, so definitely use a bold color for your design.

I really had to struggle with this product. It’s thicker than I expected so I had a hard time stitching through it. Kind o takes the fun out of the project.

Easy to use, printed design on HP inkjet home printer without any issue. Need to use very warm water to get it all off otherwise fabric is stiff after it’s dry.

Goes through inkjet printer without jamming!

It prints perfect with a laser printer, adheres easily, and removes without a problem with warm water. I soak it in warm water a couple minutes, and it floats right off. Running it under a warm tap quickly rinses all of it off then. One thing I found: if your pattern is printed close to the edge of the Sulky, it can lift when pushing a needle through. The solution: leave a border! It makes it a tiny bit harder to push a needle through, but not by much.

I love to embroider, but I dont enjoy transferring the pattern to the foundation fabric. I had three embroidery books with designs I was just itching to start stitching from--Simply Stitched by Yumiko Higuchi (an English translation of the Japanese Wool Stitch), available at Amazon, and two of Higuchis other books, Embroidery Life to Enjoy in Two Colors and One Color Embroidery and Goods (in Japanese; neither have been translated into English but both are available at Amazon and have awesome embroidery designs in them). I dont know where I came across this Sulky product (an embroidery blog?), but I decided to give it a try, even though the reviews were mixed. Within a week, I had half a dozen projects embroidered (and one embroidered needle book completed to give as a gift)--all thanks to this Sulky product. Here are some tips to get the best out of the product: Two out of three of the sheets that I sent through my printer went through effortlessly, but the third one jammed. Be sure that the corners of the page are in good shape (not bent or separating) before sending it through the printer. I printed a bunch of small projects (needle books, sachets, etc.) that filled the Sulky fabric sheet, then cut out the design I wanted to work on (I cut in between the sheets sticky side and its printed fabric side), leaving the remaining designs on the page until Im ready to use them (I put a piece of freezer paper over the top of the empty space on the page so it wont stick to anything). Then you just stick the design onto your fabric foundation of choice and start stitching. Though the product info says that a needle goes through the sticky Sulky fabric sheet easily and doesnt leave any residue, while this is mostly true, it does take me a little more oomph to get the needle through the layers sometimes (of course, the type of needle and foundation fabric you use will determine how smoothly it goes through as well). I used a variety of threads and flosses (Aurifil wool thread, overdyed/hand-dyed floss, DMC, Appleton crewel wool, etc.), all on various Robert Kaufman linen blends. The first design I did had quite a few French knots on it, and I was nervous about how the Sulky product would dissolve after stitching was completed, but it worked BEAUTIFULLY (even on the wool!). To finish, I used a shallow bowl with lukewarm water, put the embroidered design in it, swished it around, helped remove the fabric stickiness with my fingers, rinsed it in cold water, and hung it up to dry. There was no color bleeding (though you should use colorfast threads to be sure). Another benefit of this product is that when working on smaller projects, I didnt need to use a hoop, because the Sulky sheet acted as a stabilizer. This saved having to use a fabric piece that was big enough to hoop (which means savings in linen/fabric too). Another HUGE selling point for me is that it will be easy to embroider items like scarves and other clothing and home dec--basically, anywhere you can stitch with a needle and thread, which makes this a very versatile product. Ill use this product all the time now. Im so happy to actually be embroidering again; its very gratifying to see some finished pieces and to be looking forward to doing more. I will happily pay the price of this product to avoid hand-transferring designs.