Needles 3:18 - Pfaff creative 2124 Owner's Manual

Adhesive Stabilizer
Adhesive stabilizers have a sticky side and are great for embroi-
deries 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 mois-
ture 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 acti-
vates 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 spe-
cial 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.
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