[QUOTE=chamby;6593099]I am so glad I found this post. I have a brother. It only does embroidery and it limited to the 5x7 hoop.
I just bought a Brother with the 5X7 hoop. Have an older Babylock with a larger 6X10 hoop (but uses a floppy disk for design transfer -- UGH!) -- I find that most designs I want to do work fine in a 5X7. I do t-shirts and kitchen towels, placemats and table runners, pillow tops, wall hangings -- I just did 7 designs of coffee cups, "framed" them in embroidery hoops, and hung them in my kitchen. Am just finishing up a 12 kitchen towel set with SunBonnet Sue months of the year. I mainly do gifts. Just have fun with your machine.