Finished |
I have done a couple of stockings this season. The first one I had to take apart to do the stitching and I used a wash-away film topper to keep down the nap of the fur. This client wanted blue to match the blue in the ornaments on the dog's antlers.
Under the hoop hooping |
I used my software to get the name and added a stitched box all around. That would keep the layers of the stocking cuff together. I then cut a window in some hooped stabilizer slightly larger than the box. I pinned the stocking underneath and then took it to the embroidery machine.
Stitching |
As you can see, the name looks upside down but that is based on how I hooped the stocking and placed it on the machine. I did hold up the stocking during the stitching to make sure it didn't pull too much and loosen the stocking from the stabilizer.