sewingpup

It has been a while since I have hand embroidered. I used to use wooden, metal and cork, and plastic hoops. I actually seemed to prefer the plastic hoops. I also sometimes would embroider without a hoop especially if I was doing cross stitch and working on something like aida or heather field. I do not know what is available now. Brings me back to those embroidery days. It really was fun and relaxing. Most of what I did was counted cross stitch.

oh, just remembered, I had a couple of those snap frames too. They were square or rectangular and you snapped a cover on the sides to hold the fabric, I liked those too for some things. I don't recall any of my hoops ever wearing out. I think I would just try a different one when I wanted on for a different size project and actually, for the most part they all just seemed to work fine.