Why buy the biggest embroidery machine hoops?
12-28-2015, 06:53 AM
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I just used the largest hoop for my Brothers machine (9.5 x 14) to embroider a design on a large sweatshirt. It was a combined design resulting in a design you see on many shirts for sale for the holidays. The large hoop allowed me to experiment with placement etc before I actually stitched it out. That way I knew exactly what it would look like.
12-28-2015, 08:00 AM
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I use the big hoops all the time, for quilt blocks and have one that is 13.5 x 13.5 that I have used to make some real nice pictures. The 9 x 12 hoop is also great for doing Christmas stockings and dresser scarfs ect.
12-28-2015, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Koller
A larger hoop is good. So many embroidery patterns are fir the larger hoop. You can use the 5x7 but you gave to do so many hooping.
Last edited by ShirlR; 12-28-2015 at 01:12 PM. Reason: restructure wording
12-28-2015, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by newbee3
I have one that has a large hoop but the one I use most is the 5x7
12-29-2015, 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by LindaR
you will quickly outgrow a small hoop when you see whats available in embroidery patterns...I had only a 5x7 and wish I had had bigger....go big from the b eginning
Going "big" means going more $$$ for the machine that handles the largest hoops. The hoops just don't work on every machine. Shoppers need to inquire about the capability of the machine itself. I have the Janome 9900.
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12-29-2015, 03:06 AM
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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.
Very true!
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