Wash Away - Water Soluble Machine Embroidery Stabilizer Backing & Topping 10 x 3 Yd roll - Light Weight - Cut into Variable Sizes for Machine Embroidery and Hand Sewing

This is my go-to washaway stabilizer for free-standing lace embroidery, adding light embroidery designs to tea towels, t-shirts and hoodies that I want unbacked for a soft drape, and anytime else I want the stabilizer to vanish. This is a nonwoven style that completely vanishes in luke warm water. For light and medium designs, or when using a woven fabric, one layer has worked very well for me with no tearing. (See the butterflies from Anita Goodesign for example.) When Im doing free-standing lace I usually use two layers with the grain going in opposite directions. Ive had zero problem with tearing when I use two layers. (And at this price theres no guilt to use it that way.) What I love most is that I can rinse away most of the stabilizer but leave enough starch in a FSL itemto give it shape (such as the flowers these made from a design from Embroidery by TM). If you want it softer, just soak it for a bit, change the water and soak again, or toss it in the machine if its machine washable. Ive tried about 5 brands of stabilizer, but I keep coming back to this as my favorite.

I am so happy with this product! I do hand bead embroidery and have been looking for a solid way to transfer one of my own designs drawn on paper to felt or other fabric. This stabilizer made that possible! Even under heavy beadwork, this stabilizer dissolved completely, left no residue, and didnt require any picking or scrubbing. it simply ... vanished. I could not be more pleased. This will allow me to level up my designs with basically no hassle! I cant believe Ive never seen anyone talk about this technique for bead embroidery specifically. It works... although, be sure to test the colorfast durability of your beads and felt before putting hours of hard labor in. Some beads are not colorfast.

I like this product. Its easy to use and washed away quickly. I used it as a stabilizer in my embroidery machine. I only used one layer and it worked great.