do you mean the embroidery waves in areas? like it doesn't lay flat? Are you over stretching when hooping the material? T-shirt material isn't the best for embroidery. It's light, stretchy and will shrink when washed but the embroidery wont shrink with it leaving a wavy look. A stronger backing works but it does depend on the embroidery. Does it have open areas? and does it have the proper underlay? I would try embroidering on a different material then wash it. If it doesn't bubble or wave then you know its the material not the design.

 

Thanks for your reply. Attached are 2 images of the shirt. The problem and the stabilizer. It is a Floriani stabilizer. I tried others brands with the same result. The design is 10,600 stitches. The Gildan t shirt was pre washed. The sew out was beautiful. The issue came when it was washed after the embroidery.

 

try a water soluble stabilizer on top. Or use a thicker cut away stabilizer on the bottom.

Looks to me like it just needs to be ironed. Maybe use polyester thread.

I only tinkered with embroidery my main thing is printing.

 

I know this may be a dumb question, but did you turn the shirt inside out and wash on delicate setting? I've always been under the impression that you can't just throw a heavily embroidered item into the wash like a screenprinted tee. The design was beautifully done, btw..

 

Yes. I did turn inside out. With each wash/dry it gets worse.

 

Yes. With each wash it gets worse. Ironing does not get rid of it.
Thanks for your reply.

 

Beautiful work! You need a different stabilizer for t-shirt material. Agree with above - water soluble for t-shirts.

 

I've never used this type of stabilizer before. To save this particular shirt you might try cutting the stabilizer between the text and design to give it some room and then press it. It is very pretty embroidery.

For tshirts we use two pieces of webelon to avoid puckering or bunching. We try to keep the stitch count low and only embroider monograms.

 

I did solve the issue for this order by cutting the stabilizer as you have suggested. I cut to a quarter inch of all stitching that was possible to cut. It took 1 out per shirt.

Thanks for your reply.

 

Thanks for all or your replies. I will repost once I try some of your ideas.