Pfaff 2170 - Manual (Page 142)

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Adhesive Stabilizer
Adhesive stabilizers have a sticky side and are great for embroideries
that are diffi cult to hoop. Instead of hooping the fabric, you hoop the
stabilizer with the paper side facing the top. Then lightly scratch the
surface and remove the paper. You now have a sticky side where
you can place the fabric that you will embroider on. You can use the
basting function to make sure that the fabric stays in place. When the
embroidery is fi nished, you can tear away the stabilizer.
Heat-away stabilizer
Heat-Away stabilizer is used on fabrics where tear-away or moisture to
remove wash-away stabilizer would cause distortion of the stitches or
damage the fabric. Hoop it with the fabric before stitching and remove
it by pressing a dry iron set for cotton or linen.
Note: Never use water or moisture near the stabilizer because water activates a chemical
in the stabilizer that can disintegrate your fabric.
Needles
The needle plays an important role when embroidering. The fi nal
embroidery result depends on whether you are using the right needle,
if the needle is clean and not damaged or blunt. The normal needle size
for embroidering is 80.
Make sure that you change needles often and that you have inserted
the needle the correct way, with the fl at side facing away from you.
Embroidery needles
The embroidery needle is a light ballpoint needle with an extra large
eye in relation to the needle eye. The larger eye has more room for the
thread when embroidering and when using the heavier decorative
threads.
Metallic needles
The metallic needle is used for metallic threads and other special
threads. This needle has a large elongated eye and a larger groove to
prevent shredding of heavier and fl at fi lament metallic threads during
stitch formation.