QUILTsocial | Issue 08

The EPIC embroidery features
of the HV Designer EPIC
I'm going to explore stitch-outs on the
Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC. And I’ll
only be scratching the surface of what
amazing embroidery techniques are
available.
How to hoop your fabric
You want to start by cutting a piece of
stabilizer that is slightly larger than your
hoop. Layer your fabric (right side up)
on top of the stabilizer. I don’t bother to
cut my fabric down to smaller sizes, but
you don’t want the piece to be too big
either as it’ll be moving around as the
hoop moves.
Designer EPIC with embroidery unit attached
Here’s a quick tip about those stabilizers.
Once you remove the plastic, that label
is going to get misplaced and you want
to keep it with the stabilizer. Simply tuck
the label inside the center of the tube
and you’ll always know what kind of
stabilizers you have.
Built in step by step instructions for machine
embroidery
Here’s the design I chose. I’m doing a
very simple embroidery, but there are a
lot of color changes.
Layer the fabric over the stabilizer
Next up, you’re going to open the quick
release (the spring) on the outer part of
the hoop and place it underneath the
fabric/stabilizer combination.
Place the outer hoop underneath the fabric/stabilizer
combination
Insert the stabilizer label inside the roll of stabilizer
Remember, if you’ve never done
machine embroidery before, all the steps
are built into the Embroidery Section of
the JoyOS advisor. Just follow the step by
step instructions. Simple!
Place the inner hoop on top of the
fabric, making sure that the arrow at the
bottom of the outer hoop is matching
up with the arrow at the bottom of the
inner hoop. Essentially, you don’t want
that inner hoop to be upside down.
Press the inner hoop inside the outer
hoop. I start at the bottom left and work
my way around the hoop until I end
up at the bottom right corner which is
where the quick release and the screw
are located.
Design to stitch out
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