# Machine Embroidery on Fleece?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machine-embroidery-on-fleece/476098>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 7, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machine-embroidery-on-fleece/476098 "2008-12-07T05:20:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machine-embroidery-on-fleece/476098/1 "2008-12-07T05:20:42Z")

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I just bought 4 small dog blankets made of a fairly thin fleece fabric. I’d like to machine embroidery their names on the blankets but since fleece is a non-woven fabric, I wasn’t sure how to go about doing this.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

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**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machine-embroidery-on-fleece/476098/2 "2008-12-07T17:20:40Z")

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I’m kinda a machine embroidery newbie myself, but I do know is the fabric has a really thick pile or loft to it, you will need to put a stabilizer on _top_ of the fabric (tear away or dissolvable, of course).

Do a test sew-out on a scrap first, but fleece should embroider really well.