This guy was fun to make, but I had a little dilemma. Should I do a lot of the detail in applique or embroidery? To save some time, I went with embroidery.
This causes one slight problem if you stitch Santa's white beard on anything but a white shirt. White is terrible at giving complete coverage. Just ask any 13 year old girl wearing her first white shirt since she.........................uh....................................wrong blog.
Anyway, there is an official product out there to help your embroidery design color pop. It's a permanent topper called Hide It Stabilizer.
I did not have a large area to stitch so I decided to use a little tear-away instead. Mostly since it is not a large area but I am also
Oh, I decided to test this out on some blue fleece too without any WSS since I ran out. Talk about the odds of this turning out well!
Before your fill stitch, lay your topper on your design.
When you are done, carefully tear-away!
Ta-da! I even did one without to compare.
Here is without.
Now, I'm interested in getting a pack of the real permanent topper to see how well it works for other embroidery designs. What do you think?
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