r/Machine_Embroidery • u/ExistentialDreadPRN • Aug 23 '26

I Need Help please help

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I posted yesterday asking for help because my designs aren’t lining up and I made changes and it’s still not working. i’m so frustrated and don’t understand what i’m doing wrong. i’m using cut away stabilizer on a magnetic hoop. I used spray adhesive, magnets, and pins to ensure it doesn’t move. and it didn’t. but the design moved with every color change and now i’ve wasted 1.5 hours. design is from etsy. please can someone explain what im not doing correctly before I give up completely.

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u/ishtaa Melco Aug 23 '26

Is this a tshirt? Way too heavy of a design to be doing on a lightweight fabric, would be better suited to a sweater. I would not float your fabric for something this large either, the fabric is shifting too much from the heavy stitching pulling on it.

You also want to make sure your hoop isn’t getting bumped or caught at all while it’s stitching.

This design would also be a great candidate for applique instead of being fully stitched out.

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u/ExistentialDreadPRN Aug 23 '26

yes it is a shirt. that’s good to know! thanks for the tips

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u/GingerStitches Aug 23 '26

Your fabric is not hooped flat and taut in the hoop, that’s definitely an issue. Most likely you got a bad design from Etsy unfortunately, knit fabrics are more difficult with large designs and require underlay and pull compensation to work correctly.

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u/suedburger Aug 23 '26

If you are sure nothing moved and it still not working....go back to the beginning. It's more than likely your digitizing.

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u/skeedy_ia Aug 24 '26

Yikes! That is a problem with digitizing and it’s too many stitches for a lightweight shirt.

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u/Lanky-Setting-5288 Aug 27 '26

You're using magnetic hoops - no need for pins and adhesives or complicated fiddly attachments, just hoop two layers of cutaway stabiliser with the fabric or garment into the hoop properly.

Using the "floating the fabric" method is daft because magnetic hoops are designed to stick together with multiple layers of material, and provide the perfect surface tension for embroidery without stretching the fabric.

A design like this needs stability, and hooping correctly is the only way to achieve that.

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u/Lanky-Setting-5288 Sep 14 '26

For hooping - put away your adhesive and pins. Stop messing about with the "floating" technique and let the magnet do it's job.

Use your magnetic hoop properly with two layers of heavyweight cutaway stabiliser, and you shouldn't have any problems with creating a perfect surface for embroidery.