Embroidery Tips and Tricks

Ok, now I think you understand the theory of my hooping aids. Let's give you a couple of examples of how much easier your life can be. We get many products that come pre-folded and are quite thick. Working in the oil patch, our most common item is coveralls. Here's how we do them. Unsnap the buttons and unzip only as far as necessary to insert a hoop, keeping the coveralls folding intact. Pull out the left sleeve until the embroidery area is open for hooping. Slide in either the hooping helper or a clipboard under the material and "Voila!". Hooping is easily accomplished and the coveralls are still folded. Place them in your embroidery machine just like that and embroider. When done, you can easily trim and finish without disturbing the folding, put the left sleeve tucked back in and you're done. An almost identical situation arises with bathrobes and you basically do the same thing. You can do all the stages,(hooping, embroidering, trimming, finishing and packing) without disturbing it's original shape.

We have also found this works well on lab coats, hospital scrubs and rolled up fleece blankets. I'm sure you can find many more applications. Please let us know some of them. We can all benefit. Happy Hooping!