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Hints and Tips« Smooth Stitches | Hints & Tips | No Marks on Velvet » Best Hooping Technique The best hooping technique - not too tight and not too loose. If you need to make adjustments to take up slack once the fabric is hooped, don't get carried away and stretch the fabric too tight!
Feedback or Questions about "Best Hooping Technique" (1) How to embroider a garment that is too small to fit in the hoop? Embroideryarts Support answers: There are really two parts to answering your question - and the fist part points back to you - What type of embroidery machine do you have? If, for example, you are interested in monogramming on socks (basically a small tube) and you have a commercial machine you can likely purchase a special hoop for this purpose from your machine manufacturer to allow you to stretch a sock around the machines arm - with table removed - and hoop the sock in a standard commercial hoop. To accomplish this same task on a home machine, you would need not only a special small hoop but the ability to pull the majority of the sock out of the way of the needle - otherwise you'll sew the sock shut. If the garment you have in mind isn't a tube, but a small single surface object - a doll's dress for example - this project is easier to accomplish no matter what machine you have. Faced with a hooping challenge like this, you could use heavy duty plastic, or embroidery backing, to make a surface that is large enough to be hooped conventionally. Cut a hole in the center, large enough to accommodate the field to be monogrammed. Use double-sided carpet tape - available at hardware stores - or standard stationery store double-sided tape - to create a sticky surface around the perimeter of the whole you cut. Press the small garment down onto this surface. Once you have completed the embroidery you can peel the garment away from the hoop template. --Posted by: Marilyn Crews at February 5, 2007 12:34 PM
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