Embroidery Kitten In A Pocket Tee

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

DIRECTIONS:

1. Watch disk tutorial.
2. Set your machine for embroidery.
3. Preshrink and press T-shirt
4. Carefully remove pocket. It will be sewn back after stitching design.
5. Hoop T-shirt and Soft and Sheer cutaway stabilizer. Attach hoop to machine and slip a piece of Tear Easy stabilizer under hoop.
6. Layer a piece of Super Solvy on top of shirt.
7. Design is very dense for knits, so enlarge at 5% with Edit Mode on sewing machine to loosen up stitches.
8. Stitch out design. When finished, remove from hoop.
9. Hoop pocket on Soft and Sheer stabilizer as shown in disk tutorial.
10. Slip a piece of Tear Easy under hoop and Super Solvy on top.
11. 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.
12. Remove hoop from machine and unhoop pocket.
13. Carefully remove Tear Easy and Super Solvy stabilizers from T-shirt and pocket. Trim cutaway close to stitching.
14. Press designs with a small amount of steam.
15. Sew pocket back on shirt matching paw sections.