"Cheater" minky sewing

Knockdown stitching

A grid of same-color stitching is another way to pin down the pile of minky or terry so the decorative stitching shows clearly. It has the advantage over water-soluble stabilizer that it will also keep neighboring pile from overhanging the stitching. It's a built-in feature of Embrilliance, but for those of us who can't use that for financial or compatibility reasons, it can be done in Ink/Stitch too. Here's how.

The embroidery resizing problem

Ink/Stitch 2.0.0 Lettering Sampler

Ink/Stitch 2.1.x Sampler