Embroidery Tips and Tricks

I've found that the old fashioned clip boards made of pressed paper come in handy in so many places. We use them in a similar fashion as the hooper helper previously described to slide in behind the embroidery area giving a nice solid base to hoop on. They come in especially handy on nylon bags of all sizes where you have lots of material under the hooping area making it difficult to keep the the pocket flat and even. We cut the ends to make different widths all the way down to about 3". The smaller sizes easily fit in some of the tiniest pockets. Once you've slid the clipboard into the pocket, it's a piece of cake to hoop.