Fabric Contents for Embroidery
When working on T shirts, or similar garments, it is best to use
100% cotton or a blend of cotton and polyester. Do not use any
fabrics that contain spandex because they will stretch out of shape.
This would not only alter your garment, but would alter your
embroidery design as well.
With a T shirt or similar item, you should also obtain a tightly
woven knit. It is actually not difficult to determine whether the
shirt is tightly woven. You merely need to look at the closeness of
the weave.
Always pre-wash your garments before taking steps to embroider on
them. If the garments shrink, it is best that they do so before you
have embroidered them. Obviously, you would not want them to shrink
after you have embroidered them, because they may no longer fit you
or the person for which the garments were embroidered. Even if the
item could still be worn, shrinkage could alter the embroidered
design, which could damage its appearance.
You can first experiment with an old T shirt or other garment before
using the new one on which you are to embroider. The best fabrics to
use for embroidered designs are felt or muslin because nearly any
embroidered design will look great on those fabrics. T shirt
material will generally work, however, fabrics can be very
unpredictable with their give and take, especially when they are
moved and stretched in the hoop, as well as with the thousands of
stitches that are sewn onto them.
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