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

Refectory for my machine embroidery. Second time I’ve purchased.

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.

Works well for FSL machine embroidery. Washes away fantastic.