I’ve stopped working on the Snail’s Trail quilt to make a friend of mine a baby present. I decided to embellish a body suit with a cross stitch (machine embroidered of course).
From this …
 To this …
 As you can see, I should have stabilised more. I’m still on the look out for a good cheap stabiliser. For this piece I used two layers of a medium weight interfacing rather than a proper embroidery stabiliser.
I apologise for the wonky picture!
 I decided to use this one in the end (even though it is far from perfect) because I simply don’t have the time to make another.
Here is an image of the final product …
Perhaps the most easiest and cheapest stabilizer is by Pellon and is sold at any Wal-mart. It is called tearaway and is quite stiff. Cross stitch embroidery requires well stabilizing and interfacing would not work. Any stiff stabilizer would be best. I normally use tearaway rather than cutaway. Hugs, Sadia