A week ago I did an embroidery onto velvet with my embroidery machine. It worked well, but I wasn't happy with the colours (partly because the velvet is dark blue, and the pattern was designed for pale fabrics).
Today I repeated the embroidery with different colours, and also repeated some of the colours to make them more concentrated (ie got to the end of a colour and then started again from the beginning to go over the same ground again). It worked really well, and I was very pleased. I put both embroideries into the washing machine to rinse away the soluble stabiliser, and then ironed them on the back. When I turned them over I could see marks on the newer one.
It seems that the hoop had rubbed away the surface of the velvet, pretty much all the way around. This didn't happen at all on the first one.
Has anyone else had this happen? I can see three possible causes:
- I used different hoops - the same size, but different - maybe the hoop was rougher?
- Because I repeated some of the sections, the fabric was under greater stress for the second one (29k stitches for the first one, roughly 45k for the second). Maybe it rubbed against the hoop more?
- The velvet (which is good quality cotton velvet) is just going to do this, and I would be better using something else?
I have an alternative design, but it is 72k stitches, and I really don't want to do all that and then find it has the same problems.
Any thoughts/ideas/experiences that might help?