SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- T-shirt with pocket
- Machine embroidery thread
- Bobbin thread
- Schmetz size 90/14 topstitch needles
- Sulky Soft & Sheer Cutaway Stabilizer
- Sulky Tear Easy Stabilizer
- Sulky Super Solvy
- Basic sewing supplies
- Iron & pressing surface
- Embroidery capable sewing machine
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DIRECTIONS:
- Watch disk tutorial.
- Set your machine for embroidery.
- Preshrink and press T-shirt
- Carefully remove pocket. It will be sewn back after stitching design.
- Hoop T-shirt and Soft and Sheer cutaway stabilizer. Attach hoop to machine and slip a piece of Tear Easy stabilizer under hoop.
- Layer a piece of Super Solvy on top of shirt.
- Design is very dense for knits, so enlarge at 5% with Edit Mode on sewing machine to loosen up stitches.
- Stitch out design. When finished, remove from hoop.
- Hoop pocket on Soft and Sheer stabilizer as shown in disk tutorial.
- Slip a piece of Tear Easy under hoop and Super Solvy on top.
- Enlarge design at 5% on machine Edit Mode. Stitch design. If eliminating yarn and yarn ball from the pocket, skip over those sections when stitching.
- Remove hoop from machine and unhoop pocket.
- Carefully remove Tear Easy and Super Solvy stabilizers from T-shirt and pocket. Trim cutaway close to stitching.
- Press designs with a small amount of steam.
- Sew pocket back on shirt matching paw sections.
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