Originally Posted by
Krystyna
Newbee3, thanks for posting your experience. I've been a little skeptical about floating one below the hoop. I recall they said you should use the positioning tacking first. My machine doesn't do that as far as I know (PE770) so I'm thinking you need to affix it some other way.
On my machine this is called a basting stitch and it just sews around the edges of the hoop to hold it in place. Look for either a basting stich or mine is a fix button that does the same thing. Good luck.