I finished a quilt a few weeks ago with my Brother SE400. It has 99 8" blocks with hand embroidery in half of them and machine embroidery in the other half. I didn't want to quilt over the embroidery so I hooped each block 4 times to embroidery a design in the corners for the quilting. (I did stitch in the ditch around each block first.) That is a lot of hooping! I probably won't do that again, but it did turn out nice. The hooping is harder because of the thickness of the quilt. I had to really bear down on the hoop to get it to go into place. I was afraid I would break my hoop before I got finished, but I didn't.