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Embroidering a Fur-cuffed Christmas Stocking

Embroidering a Fur-cuffed Christmas Stocking

Here's a project with seasonal appeal. Conquer the challenges presented by the narrow embroidery area and the long shag of faux fur with the techniques in this project.

Step 1:

Embroidery will be done on the white top cuff of this stocking. Because of the long strands of fur, a single target sticker could easily move out of place.

Step 2:

To make sure your design stays on target, use pins to keep the production sheet on the stocking. The text design used here was created with KP Compositions software.

Step 3:

Hooping the stocking may not be your best option. Perhaps the stocking is narrower than your hoop, or too thick for the span of its spring.

Step 4:

With embroidery tape, you can surmount these hooping challenges. Hoop two sheets of medium tearaway stabilizer. Make a square large enough for your design.

Step 5:

Then finger-press the stocking cuff into place on the stabilizer, keeping the tape just outside of the area to be embroidered, and making sure the material is smooth and taut against the stabilizer.

Step 6:

At the embroidery machine, move the stitching start point into place for the design, and remove its placement marking production sheet.

Step 7:

Add an embroidery topper before you begin stitching. I suggest that a permanent topper be used.

Step 8:

Complete the embroidery. When the embroidery is finished, leave your topping in place while you clip any extra threads. Remove the excess embroidery topping. You may want to leave some topper inside and between the letters to keep the lettering legible.

Step 9:

Simply tear the stocking away from the hooped topping. The embroidery tape releases your fabric without leaving residue.

Maureen P.

I want to embroider script printing on a Xmas stocking

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Heather B.

Hi, Maureen. That sounds great. Here's a link to another project in our project gallery which shows how to embroider on a stocking:

https://www.embroidery.com/help.ec?docid=2107

You can use one of your embroidery machine's built-in script fonts, or Embroidery.com does sell other script alphabets you can use:

https://www.embroidery.com/Embroidery-Central.ec?search=script%20alphabet

~Heather
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