Originally Posted by ShirlR

I so agree that the larger hoops are wonderful. When I bought my gently-used Babylock Ellegante, the 12 x 7 was the largest hoop available (for my budget at the time), so I purchased design-splitting software to be able to sew the larger designs. If I were able, budget-wise, to have a machine with larger hoops, that I would do in a heartbeat, but sometimes those machines are out of reach for a lot of people, as they were for me at the time. If I were to do a larger design, I would use the largest hoop I have to cut down on the hoopings, that's for sure. Those newer machines with the larger hoops are simply wonderful, I drool every time I go in to my local dealer, but I guess it all boils down to what a person can afford.