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How do you stop embroidery from unraveling?

I just bought bedding with lots of embroidery & some threads are unraveling already. I was thinking of using super glue but I don't want it to look gloppy and dirty.

Public Comments

1. About all you can do is buy better quality bedding. Good embroidery should not unravel even if one of the threads breaks somewhere along the design.
2. You can use either clear finger nail polish or 'Liquid Stitch' (you can find this at any craft store or fabric store.) Just put a small amount of either on the threads that are unraveling and ou should be fine! Good Luck!
3. Oh my god don't do that! It will look awful!!!! I'm afraid there is no quick fix. Machine sewing is just cut off rather than knotted like hand sewing. All you can do is sit down and methodically go over it knotting all the loose ends. If there are loose ends not long enough to tie then over-stitch them in a matching colour. Sorry, if you want it to stay looking nice there isn't a quick way to do it.
4. I owned an embroidery company at one time. You will need to pull out the last two strings in the embroidery and tie them together, that should keep it from unraveling. One will be the front string and the other will be the back string. If you can do that then it should be pretty easy to keep it from unraveling any further. Make sure you are doing it from the back so that the knot won't show on the front.
5. Super Glue is not the answer. If it were me, I think I'd return the bedding back to the store where you purchased it. Apparently, it was not well made by the manufacturer, and if it's raveling already, this will probably be an ongoing problem. I'd take it back.
6. I would return it and probably write to the company that made the bedding.
7. embroiders use water soluble to protect thier embroidery work, you could use this, go to any sewing shop, it looks like cling film, you just put it on the embroidery work and wet it, it stops freying etc..