Hooping Helps

On this page, we're focusing on hooping. How to do it, how to avoid and diagnose common problems in hooping, and which tools will help you make the most of your hooping skills.  If you'd like to receive hooping tips, click here:   You are signed up X Participate Participate   to sign up for Hooping Helps.

All About Hooping

How to do it, how to avoid and diagnose common problems in hooping, which tools will help you make the most of your hooping skills.

Featured Event:

Here's Eileen introducing a brand new hooping tool -- the Totally Tubular Hooping Station! It will help you hoop narrow items like:

• onesies
• jeans
• totes

Eileen and Sue talk about using common items to add the wow factor to embroidery.  Eileen also demonstrates the Dime Hoop Mat -- it grips so your hoop won't slip!

Recommended Reading: Hoop it Up!

If you really want to learn to hoop, this one's for you. Inside the 80 page book you'll find 99 frustration saving techniques and six embroidery positioning tools you can use again and again!

Featured Films:
Hooping on a Tubular Machine (Single/Multi Needle)

Hoop Guard -- keep excess fabric out of your stitching area.

Sticky Hoops -- a hoop made especially for floating!

Hoop Guards -- keep excess fabric out of the hoop!

Hooping Pre-made Christmas Stockings -- without opening a seam

What To Do Before You Hoop -- Two main questions to start with

This is a replay of an earlier Live event. If you'd like to see the annotated version, click here.