Answer
Mar 21, 2023 - 11:59 AM
There is a small description on the product page on our website. If you ever watch any of our free Facebook/YouTube weekly events called "Sew What", Ellen March uses and shows this slitting pen all the time. Also in our free blogs sulky.blog.com. It is used to gently cut through the release sheet of the Sticky+ WITHOUT cutting into the stabilizer itself. We used a pin for this for years, but it was really easy to slit the stabilizer at the same time and then you had to start all over with a new piece of stabilizer. This slitting pen will also work with Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy.
If you've never done this, the purpose of hooping the stabilizer with the release sheet on is to keep the adhesive off of your hoop. (Allowing you to then embroider on "unhoopables" like socks, or heavy fabrics, or jean jackets, etc., - or if you have just a small piece of fabric like for a pocket, and that's all you have of it - it's may not be big enough to hoop.)
You can score the release sheet all the way around the edge of the hoop, or just in the area you need to embroidery on. Or you can do a big X and peel it off that way, which is what I usually do. It protects the stabilizer using the pen.
If you've never done this, the purpose of hooping the stabilizer with the release sheet on is to keep the adhesive off of your hoop. (Allowing you to then embroider on "unhoopables" like socks, or heavy fabrics, or jean jackets, etc., - or if you have just a small piece of fabric like for a pocket, and that's all you have of it - it's may not be big enough to hoop.)
You can score the release sheet all the way around the edge of the hoop, or just in the area you need to embroidery on. Or you can do a big X and peel it off that way, which is what I usually do. It protects the stabilizer using the pen.
Add New Comment