Just reread your post, we used the mega hoop for doing embroidery on Backpacks and large hand bags, it was so easy,and if you have to stop to put more thread in the bobbin, and have to take your embroidery off to do so, no worry ,the embroidery picks up right where you left off, did some beautiful cut work lace on the machine too, we did an outline then cut out the center and made a huge lace rose in the center, it turned out beautiful, we put it on one of those pashmere shawls that you find in the airports for about $15.00, used the sticky paper to hold it down because you would not want to strech the pashmere because it would leave strech marks