Sulky - 486-12 9-Yard Solvy Water Soluble stabilizer, 12 x 9.5 yd, White

This is okay if you are doing embroidery say for the eyes of a stuffed animal. However, I mainly got this to use for a free standing lace project. As other reviewers have stated, this is not the item for that. It shreds when placed alone in the embroidery hoop. If you need a dissolving stabilizer for freestanding lace, go with sulkly ultra solvy or vilene.

Not dark enough to hide the texas heat on my windows

Im enjoying this stabilizer. Although its water soluble, it also tears away very easily. I mostly use it as a top floating piece due to the detail and depth of some of the embroidery designs I use. They are very detailed with lots of colors. This helps a lot. And it does wash out well too.

This works well to prevent knit fabrics from stretching as you sew them. Then it disolves and disappears instantly in the water stream from a faucet. It doesnt even need hot water, room temperature tap water works fine. It is very thin and flexible, similar to plastic food wrap, except its not stretchy and doesnt cling. That makes it a little challenging to get pinned down. It helps to cut a piece much larger than you think you need, then use masking tape out at the edges, before pinning near where youre working.

I will not monogram without it! Makes stitches look smoother

Sulky makes one of the best water soluble stabilizer for the home embroidery enthusiast. It makes a great top layer for terry cloth projects, and double it up for projects like patches or free standing lace. I can not recommend this enough for home embroidery fanatics like me.

Sulky 486-12 12-Inch by 9-Yard Solvy Water Soluble Stabilizer Roll is great for finishing my wifes machine-embroidered towels, shirts, etc.

This product is fantastic for not only machine embroidery, but also for sewing on towels, fake furs, or anything that requires a little help for your machine to sew smoothly. I use it for applique, quilting, embroidery etc.

I bought this stabilizer at the same time I bought my embroidery machine. I went with it because I liked the idea of a water soluble stabilizer (I hate it when people dont trim the regular stabilizer back). I got it on the same day that I received my embroidery machine, and was excited to give it a try. It may not have been the best choice for a newbie to embroidery such as myself. I found that I could not get it taut enough in the hoops, no matter what I tried, and it would cause the fabric to slip out as well. The thread knots and breaks, and all of the samples I attempted to embroider ended up skewed because the fabric would slip. I painstakingly checked thread tensions and all of the machine settings, and they were set properly, so I figured it must be a problem with the texture of the stabilizer. I went down the street to Joann and picked up some tearaway stabilizer to use, and havent had any issues. Its still slow going as Im learning, but the thicker stuff seems to be more user friendly. I did test the water solubility inadvertently, however, and found that it melts right away. I was having a hissy fit because I couldnt get it to work and tipped my water over onto the project Id been working on, and it dissolved almost instantly. So, that was neat. Its why it gets 3 stars. Im sure that someone who knows what theyre doing could do much better, but for a noob, its probably safer to start with the traditional stabilizer.

easy to use