I thought I'd blog about "my" results when working with Marathon metallic threads. Are you experiencing thread breakage?
I got different results depending on which needle I was using for which project. Lately, I've been working with FSL (Free Standing Lace) and I decided to try it with metallics.. I have to say that I was a little apprehensive about it at first. Guess what, it worked! For the projects that I was working on, I found that I got better results with a bigger needle. I tried a metallic size 11 needle and got good results but I decided to test the same project with a size 12 needle as well as a size 14 (sharp needles) and I found that for my projects, I got better results with a size 14 needle. My choice of stabilizer was H2o Gone and it worked great. Now I'm totally addicted to FSL. If you're reading this and have some great sites for FSL, please drop us a line.
Once my project was done, I unhooped it and trimmed it and then ran it under warm water and the stabilizer disappeared almost like magic.
So if you're having thread breakage, my suggestion would be to change your needle to a bigger size and see what happens.
Make sure that your needle is not dull. We recommend changing your needle every 8 hours of sewing on regular sewing projects and after 100,000 stitches on machine embroidery projects.
If you're in the beginning stages of machine embroidery and looking for a great book on it, we recommend Creative Beginnings in Machine Embroidery by Patty Albin which we just happen have in stock. I've been embroidering for 4 years and I think this book is really good. In fact I just bought a copy for myself.
Linda
